In Times to Come Book Two
The second book in my new In Times to Come series has been released today.
The positive feedback and strong sales I’ve gotten from the first episode of this story have exceeded my expectations. This is always a good thing, because it is a project I have been excited about for quite some time now, and its success bodes well for other, similar works I have planned for the near future. I am especially pleased to see that the combination of time-travel and post-apocalyptic fiction has both resonated with my established audience and attracted new readers to my work as well.
All of my published fiction to this point fits primarily in the post-apocalyptic and dystopian genres, and all the stories have strong elements of wilderness survival and self-sufficiency baked in. In crafting this new series, I wanted to continue to give my readers of those prior works more of what they want, while branching out to explore one or more of the other genres of fiction I enjoy reading.
Time travel fiction has always fascinated me, especially when the story is about someone going into a wilderness or some other isolated place and somehow getting lost in another time without knowing it. When they attempt to return to civilization and the everyday life they knew before, they learn it doesn’t exist. Over the years, I’ve written down my notes and ideas for several stories with this premise, but most involved a character or characters that went back in time, rather than forward. This is the most popular kind of time travel fiction and it has been the subject of countless books and movies in the genre.
I still plan to explore some of those ideas as there is a lot appeal to casting characters from the modern world back in time into a primeval setting replete with adventure and danger. But for my debut into the genre, I decided to go the other way instead.
In Times to Come, as the name implies, entails a small leap forward to the near future, rather than a journey to some distant past. The premise, of course, is that the future the protagonist finds himself in is much worse than the world he has left behind. It is, in fact, a dystopian world set in a post-collapse America, similar to the setting in my popular Feral Nation series. And like Eric Branson of Feral Nation, Alan Carson has the skills, training and combat experience to cope with such conditions better than most. Left with no other choice, he quickly adapts to life without the technology and support systems he knew in his life before.
Because he has traveled only seventeen years into the future, Alan Carson is able to reconnect with some of the people he knew in the life he left behind. This lends itself to infinite possibilities for plot twists and surprises, most of which I am still working to uncover as I move now from Book Two into Book Three. As with Feral Nation, I’m not sure at this point just how many books it will take to tell this story, but if reader interest in the first one is any indication, then I will be free to explore all the avenues that present themselves as the adventure unfolds.