Today I. Ashmawey, Hypothesis Books
and Rockstar Book Tours are
revealing the cover for ETA: THE TRIAL OF LOGAN GRUVER, their new sci-fi time
travel mystery book which releases July 16, 2024! Check out the awesome cover
and enter the giveaway!
On to the reveal!
Title: ETA: THE TRIAL OF
LOGAN GRUVER
Author: I. Ashmawey
Pub. Date: July 16, 2024
Publisher: Hypothesis Books
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 276
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/u/4jE5pv
Logan Gruver doesn’t mean to commit
the first murder in history—it was an accident, he swears. But now, he has
introduced violence millennia early, escalating humanity’s destruction, and is
about to go on trial for the first time-travel murder ever.
All Logan wants is to find purpose in his life, stuck in a house with abusive
parents who are always comparing him to his deceased sister, and trapped in a
stalemate banking job where he feels invisible. So when he wins a shot at
traveling five million years into the past as a volunteer guard, Logan jumps on
the opportunity. His newfound freedom is a breath of fresh air. He even finds
love with a charming traveling journalist, Giselle. Unlike anyone he’s ever
met, she challenges him to learn more about himself, and the two grow closer as
they journey into the past.
Then the curious duo discovers the organization they traveled with is keeping a
massive secret: humanity will mysteriously go extinct in the future, and no one
knows why. These vacation getaways to the past are actually an attempt to
restart humanity, five million years prior. The bigger problem: the attempt
isn’t going to work.
While trying to save both past and present, Logan makes a grave error that ends
in a murder that was never supposed to happen. Now the entire timeline is on
the brink of destruction, and Logan may have to make the ultimate sacrifice to
save mankind.
Excerpt:
THE PROLOGUE
Everything we thought we knew was wrong.
The earth isn’t flat.
The universe does not revolve around us.
Black holes aren’t impenetrable.
And time travel isn’t just the stuff of science fiction.
Then there was a discovery; one that changed the course of human history. A
discovery that started the chaos that ruined my life… and everyone else’s: the
Canvas of Time.
What it was, no one understood. What we did know was that this Canvas was an
invisible, cosmic sheet that covered all our known existence. Inside the
Canvas, time exists. Outside, it doesn’t. Outside, nothing exists. It turned
out that our universe as we knew it was limited after all.
But that wasn’t the best part. If you pass through the Canvas and back into it
from a different angle, you travel through time. It was a fascinating discovery
about the Canvas, but it didn’t really matter since the perimeter of the Canvas
was too far for us to reach.
But before science could truly begin to fathom what this discovery meant, the
general public did what they did best: they panicked. Religion, politics, and
Hollywood all blurred together as no one knew truth from fiction. Crowds
marched to government buildings with “We are doomed,” “Beam me up, Scotty,” and
“Humans failed. Give the planet to the apes” posters.
For the most part, the discovery made people afraid. Afraid to think about what
it could mean for them now, their pasts, and their possible futures. And fear
makes people do unexplainable things. Hence… World War III.
Eventually, we realized the discovery of the Canvas actually meant little to
nothing to humanity. It was like discovering gravity; it was always there from
the beginning, we just understood it better. It didn’t stop the war from
continuing, however. As always, people start off fighting about one thing and
end up fighting about another.
But it was many years later that something in our solar system shook things up.
Something that wasn’t there from the beginning and actually did mean a lot to
humanity. A black hole suddenly appeared in our solar system. Once again, the
whole world was caught off guard. Where did it come from? How did it not
instantly destroy us? Would our time slow down? Why didn’t it suck us into its
eternal abyss?
But one day, a video changed everything. An online influencer was hosting a
debate in Central Park discussing if the black hole was truly a black hole or a
hoax, when an unidentified little girl passing by interrupted the debate: “I
have a question,” she blurted. “Is the black hole a hole in the Canvas of
Time?” The vlogger didn’t appreciate the interruption. Nor did he realize at
that moment the gravity of the question. But it’s always the things that almost
go unnoticed that change humanity. A Yale professor who saw the video
immediately published a paper proving that the little girl’s hypothesis was
actually valid. Suddenly, the fighting ceased, and everyone thought the same
thing: does the black hole bring the perimeter of the Canvas closer to us? Can
we possibly use the black hole to travel through time?
An invitation to venture into the unknown. How could we resist?
So all humanity put their differences aside, worked together, and used the
black hole, this gap in the Canvas of Time, to research, discover, and further
the human condition.
Actually, no, none of that happened. Would have been nice if the discovery of
the Canvas of Time had changed things. But the third world war ended as all do,
with one country having the majority of the power, and that party took complete
ownership of the Canvas, the black hole, and time travel as we know it.
Humanity tore into factions of opinions, and the only thing we could agree on,
the one unarguable truth, was that everything we thought we knew was one
hundred percent wrong.
About I. Ashmawey:
County based Film and Television Writer widely known for his vivid, emotionally-moving writing style. Throughout his creative career, he has written for a multitude of prominent media outlets like Disney Channel. He has also both written and produced numerous independent films.
Born in the heart of Washington D.C., the creative spark entered Ibrahim’s life early on. By the age of 10, he started crafting short stories, resulting in statewide recognition. During middle school, he was the editor of the school newspaper. From a young age, he would see the extraordinary in what the majority deemed as ordinary. Ultimately, this is what drove him to share the unique things he saw through the art of storytelling.
Today, Ibrahim is happy to call his passion a lifelong vocation, and consistently strives to create positive change that will continue to impact people for generations to come.
Giveaway Details:
3 winners
will receive a finished copy of ETA: THE TRIAL OF LOGAN GRUVER (when available),
US Only.
Ends December 21st, midnight EST.
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