· The Beautiful Land is undoubtedly a Beautiful book and it's as odd as it is enticing. It starts off in a very dark way and yet is utterly compelling right from the word go - with a black humour that is perfectly balanced with the more serious side to the story. The book maintains a vice-like grip on the reader throughout the journey with sharp. · This week's Friday favourite is The Beautiful Land by Alan Averill, chosen by our press officer Lydia Gittins: “Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy steals a time machine that’s low on batteries and attempts to save girl from impending annihilation. The Beautiful Land. by Alan Averill. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it.
The Beautiful Land Alan Averill. Ace, $16 trade paper (p) ISBN Buy this book. Averill's slight time-traveling love story won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award before. The Beautiful Land. Author Alan Averill; ; Author: Alan Averill. Publisher: Titan Books. ISBN: Category: Fiction. Page: View: Download Now. Tak O'Leary is a Japanese-American television host who vanished off the grid after a failed suicide attempt. Samira Moheb is an Iranian-American military translator. Take a look at Alan Averill's The Beautiful Land, out today from Ace Books. Takahiro O'Leary has a very special job? working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines as.
Skillfully blending non-stop action with compassionate characters and a sharp sense of humor, The Beautiful Land is a novel unique in style and scope. It’s a love story with time machines. A science-fiction novel for people who don’t read science fiction. But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land—and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it. The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warp—horribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world. A square-jawed man with a helmet leans out the window of the van and points a large machine gun at the plane, as if expecting someone to hop out the back door with guns blazing. It’s an eye-rolling show of force even for L.A., and if Tak were still on the plane, he’d be laughing his ass off.
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