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Jonathan E. Seyfried is a history teacher in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a longtime fan of sci-fi and time travel fiction. He writes with the assistance of his five cats and very patient and loving husband. He gets the inspiration and the energy to write novels and short stories from his students.
Reviewed by Joel R. Dennstedt for Readers' Favorite
Time Riven by Jonathan E. Seyfried is a thoroughly mind-bending, kaleidoscopic science fiction adventure soaring through a past, present, and future that are anything but stable. In Seyfried’s malleable creation, the present U.S. government-controlled use of time travel technology to cure diseases and solve crimes seems perfectly well regulated - until the moment that the DCI (Department of Chronological Integrity) comes under a subtle and then brutal attack from chrononauts of the future. One man, DCI Director of Security Daniel Macon, appears to be the fulcrum around which these escalating attacks occur, presumably by the Chinese for whom time travel technology has been traitorously supplied. This happens at a time when congressional strongman Senator Melford is working tirelessly to have the entire program permanently shut down. The only conceivable way to fight these debilitating attacks is to betray the stringent laws of time travel; to alter the past irrevocably and to deceive the new descendant not-quite-humans yet to come.
Jonathan E. Seyfried’s daunting task in Time Riven is to provide his avidly expectant readers with a clear, credible, and yet challenging portrayal of parallel events based on concepts intrinsically filled with paradox. The author succeeds without blinking an eye and moves on to fill his story with the kind of political intrigue, espionage adventure, and personal human drama that keeps a reader glued to the spot where he first began to read. There is a mystery here that must be solved, and in this author’s deftly handled plot one might be expected to catch the necessary clues and yet, most satisfactorily for one's reading pleasure, probably does not.
