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Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This is a great example of a book that totally achieves what it aims forbeing an enjoyable to read, internally logical and relationship-oriented time travel story. It's not prize-winning, complex, "twisty" the latest in word for books or fancy writing, but it's good writinggood meaning that you come to care about the characters and you are interested in what happens to them.

The basic storyin the year , time travel is possible, but not wide-spread or easy. Most people don't even know it's being done by the government. Those who travel are highly trained, and still, it's hard on the body. Kin Stewart gets stuck in the past, and after a while, accepts this and starts a life there, including marrying and having a child.

Then, he is rescued and taken back to his own, future time. The rest of the book plays that outhow would a person react to such a change? How would the powers that be react? How can you reconcile two lives in two times?

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When I finished reading this, I felt satisfiedby a good story, details that made the future seem like a real and not that far away place, and a finished feeling endingnot an ending like that many recent novels have, that leaves you guessing. I give this book five stars for being a great read for those who like both relationship stories and time travel.

That's my formula for a "must-read". I've always had a difficult time keeping up with books about time travel, especially when the characters bounce between time, as does this one. However, Mike Chen somehow makes it easy to follow. At the same time, he makes it exciting to read. There are no boring pages in this book.

This is his first book, and I look forward to seeing more of his work. While a lot of books and series have fun with the novelty of time travel, this book takes an interesting look at the effects of the paradoxes of time travel on relationships. Kin Stewart is a time traveling enforcement field agent.

He goes where and when he is assigned to prevent time traveling criminals from making alterations to the past. Then he underestimates one of those criminals and when she shoots him, she disables the transponder his colleagues would have used to come and retrieve him.

Stranded in the past, Kin's mind struggles with the confusion of two "realities," and he suffers from horrible headaches and, gradually, memory loss. Making a new life in the past, he changes the future. This is a pretty well-written story. I deducted one star because the beginning is pretty disorganized and almost lost me entirely, something that is not very easy to do I'm pretty dogged when it comes to finishing a book I've said I'd review!

I was glad I stuck with it. However, I found the ending a bit too pat, and, overall, the story just seemed to lack passion One person found this helpful. I enjoy a good time travel story. Time-travel stories can have good yarns, but the characters are not usually the focal point of the story, unless they are deliberate caricatures drawn for a laugh.

This book is an exception in having sympathetic characters whose personal feelings are what drives the action. Kin Stewart is not trying to kill Hitler or stop the Kennedy assassination. He is just a father going to any length to give his daughter a happy life, and Chen makes us care enough that we want to stick it out to see if he succeeds.

As a result, I plan to recommend this book to friends who do not usually read SF. What is common in SF is action, especially big turbulent action-heavy denouements. They are popular but often cliched, and personally they often bore me. The denouement in this book is full of action, as expected. It is also clever and a surprise I am willing to bet it will surprise you, too! An author writing speculative fiction has a big challenge that is not a real problem for other authors. They have created a world that does not exist in some important respect, and they have to make it reasonably credible to the reader without doing a prolonged data dump.

Chen avoids the data dump Thank you, Mike! Other than my mild disappointment in the background information, though, there was a lot to like here, especially the sympathetic characters and the well-done denouement. I know I liked a book a lot when I start thinking of how many of my friends I should recommend it to. So, whether you know me or not, I recommend Here and Now and Then.

See all 11 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Shu is trapped in this new, harsh reality, and he is beaten and interrogated repeatedly inside the warship commanded by the ruthless, manic dictator, Hamdo.

While locked in a cell he meets an abducted girl who introduces herself as Sara Ringwalt of America. Sara's reason for her capture was being mistaken for Lala-Ru by Hamdo's minions.

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Sara goes through extremely horrific experiences and eventually becomes emotionally scarred. After an assault by an unknown enemy landship , Shu is forced to join an army of child soldiers ; children trained for the looting of villages, in which they kidnap female villagers for breeding, and conscript orphaned male children into the ever dwindling ranks of Hamdo's army. Much of the series deals with serious moral issues relating to war and famine , the consequences of war, slavery , rape , and the exploitation of children.

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Anime and Manga portal. Shuzo "Shu" Matsutani loses a kendo match at his dojo, where his opponent criticizes him for his lack of defense. Walking across town later in the day, Shu finds a girl, Lala-Ru , sitting on a smokestack watching the sunset. After a short amount of time talking to her, time suddenly freezes as a green beam of light covers the surrounding area. Lala-Ru ends up being captured by officers controlling snakelike machines and transported back into a stationary battleship named Hellywood, but Shu is accidentally brought there as well.

The two, after being chased by more soldiers, are separated at an operating bridge in the water tower, where Shu grabs Lala-Ru's pendant before he plummets into a tunnel to the outside, one of a barren wasteland. Lala-Ru is taken to see Abelia , who sees the pendant missing but then realizes that Shu might have it. Nabuca , finding Shu at a lower-level bridge over a large furnace, starts to attack, and the pendant unknowingly drops off the bridge.

Shu stops when he holds Nabuca's knife instead of his wooden stick. Shu also saves Nabuca from falling when the bridge nearly collapses. Shu is arrested and sent to see an aggravated Hamdo , concerned of the pendant's whereabouts. It is explained that Lala-Ru has the power to manipulate the source of water within the pendant, which will help reconstruct the battleship.

Hamdo orders Abelia to do whatever means necessary to torture Shu. Shu wakes up and finds a traumatized girl, first thinking her to be Lala-Ru. It turns out that the girl is from America and is named Sara Ringwalt , who was abducted by mistake. Abelia orders Shu to be hanged after another failed interrogation. As an enemy battleship approaches Hellywood, a missile is launched from the rig and successfully makes impact, thereby making a statement for any future attacks.

Abelia is given the order from Hamdo that all male soldiers will scout the whole tower to find the missing pendant. Nabuca requests Boo to keep an eye on Shu, who will be forcefully enlisted with the crew as soon as he recovers.