The Time Engine The Fourth Book of the Moonworlds Saga [Paperback]

Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his world's future and did not approve. After that incident, and having once met his future self, the inspector considered himself as knowledgeable as he ever wanted to be on the subject of time travel. What he did not know was that he would be abducted into the future and wind up on the run with a constable who had shape-shifted into a cat. He would also find himself marooned in the ancient past, where he would have to recover his time enginethe device that is his only way to get back homefrom five thousand naked, psychopathic horsemen.

And when the time engine is finally recovered, a faulty repair plunges him another three million years back in time, to a world of strange, beautiful people living idyllic lives in splendid castles. But things are not always as they seem. After being attacked, he learns from his unlikely rescuer that his travels might not have simply been a series of misadventures through time and space. A furious Danolarian returns to his own time, planning revenge against the time engine's true builders.&

Sean McMullena leading Australian science fiction author, having won more than a dozen national awards in his homeland. He established himself in the American market with the publication of the Greatwinter trilogy (comprised ofSouls in the Great Machine, The Miocene Arrow,andEyes of the Calculor). In addition, he has sold many short stories to magazines such asAnalog, Interzone, andFantasy & Science Fiction, and was co-author ofStrange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction. The settings for Sean's work range from the Roman Empire, through Medieval Europe, to cities of the distant future.

He has bachelor's and master's degrees from Melbourne University, and post-graduate diplomas in computer science, information science and business management, and a PhD in Medieval Literature. Sean has a black belt in karate, and before he began wrlól