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Michael Murphey grew up in Eastern New Mexico, and spent nearly thirty years as a newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Following his retirement from journalism in 1998, Murphey began his second career in baseball, where he is one of three partners in a company called Dave Henderson Baseball Adventures, which produces the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners fantasy camps as well as other adult amateur baseball events throughout the country. His life as an old man baseball player has also afforded him time in recent years to resume writing. He divides his time among Spokane, Washington, Phoenix, Arizona, and Fort Myers, Florida.
Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
About Time by Michael Murphey is a brilliant time travel novel in which travelers risk going to parallel universes in the name of science. In a modern-day twist, corporate America really controls the missions for the capitalistic gains they can offer, but little do the travelers know this. Previously, animals have been used in the transfers but they did not live to give information about their travels. Now, Sheila, Marta, and Marshall are the human guinea pigs who will risk their lives in order to further scientific knowledge while securing their own financial futures. Then, along comes a nerdy tech guy named Elvin who surprises everyone by providing answers as to how universes can be accessed and identified, making time travel an even more intriguing option.
When Elvin discovers that time travel to parallel universes is not what the financial backers will tolerate, corruption at its finest is initiated and the plot becomes even more complicated. Since the travelers must not only risk life and limb but they must also travel nude, author Murphey offers some tongue-in-cheek sexual scenes that are sure to provide humor to most readers. About Time is an intriguing study of possibilities and of how human conceptualization of those possibilities can alter billions of lives in a single moment of history. The characters are brilliantly developed and the plot moves along at a rate in which readers will assimilate scientific knowledge and still beg for the plot to become increasingly more complex. The novel asks, "Can the past be altered?" but the reader will ask, "Should the past be altered?" It's a wonderful and quirky out-of-the ordinary read.
