Announcing the Out of Time series of YA books!
the future needs heroes!
All our best efforts in the difficult 21st century bore fruit, and in the 24th century, people live in the very opposite of a dystopia. Only now their near-utopia is in desperate peril. Suddenly, they need heroes with grit and determination, who can teach them how to face trouble and prevail. So they reach back through time to fetch such heroes...
... but only teenagers can survive the journey from our present to the future! So the heroes they bring forward must be youths from eras teeming with troubled hope — teens from today and from deeper in the past — who are "yanked" to an uncertain tomorrow, where only their courage and savvy innovation can save the day.
David Brin's OUT OF TIME series of YA books features wholly original science fiction adventure novels, each one sending young adventurers hurtling out of today's vexing world into a future where they face real troubles, before returning home with fresh perspective.
Scroll down to learn more about all books in the OUT OF TIME series.
heroism is out of style, and humanity is out of time!
Announcing the two newest novels in the Out of Time series, transporting adventurous teens from many eras thru space & time!
Raising the Roof
by R. James Doyle
Fifteen-year-old Talulah (Tullie) has a passion for the natural world, and sensitivity to how history mistreated her Choctaw people. Only now, suddenly, "history" gets personal. One day — in the middle of a swim lesson — a message appears literally out of nowhere, inviting her to the twenty-fourth century!
Future folk have been recruiting teens from across time, to travel and explore where adults can't. Along with a computer whiz-kid, a free diver from nineteenth century Ceylon, a cabin boy from 1906 arctic explorations, plus some future-time youths, Tullie is tasked with leading her team to an ice-roofed ocean world, many light-years away! Oh, and — especially for this mission to an ocean planet — the crew includes a Hawaiian octopus.
Braving radiation storms, ice tunnels, and lightless watery depths — plus a helpful but unreliable robot — Tullie and her comrades face a ticking countdown. They must find a way to protect this amazing world's ecosystem before it's too late!
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Boondoggle
by Tom Easton and Torion Oey
The Year 2340 was pretty nice — but 2346 not so much!
With saboteurs running amok on a distant space station, Project Hourglass reaches back across history to summon a team of gritty, young problem solvers. Like 14 year-old Artie Conan Doyle, from 1879, well before he'll get around to writing Sherlock Holmes. Irene Kennealy gets the call in 2025, while working on her science fair project. Twins Siondra and Tony Pantala get yanked from 2029, along with — quite by accident — a trio of teenage roughnecks and a spunky beagle pup named Tuffy. What a team.
The game's afoot! Rumors claim the saboteurs are aliens trying to trigger war with humanity. But there are humans with motives, too. And who is kidnapping members of the team? Can youths from across time — including Tuffy — help keep the newborn alliance of interstellar friendship alive?
Purchase Boondoggle at:
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DAVID BRIN is looking for YA writers
David Brin's OUT OF TIME series of YA books features wholly original science fiction adventure novels, each one sending young adventurers — much like the reader, from the city or suburb — hurtling out of today's vexing world into a future where they face real troubles, before returning home with fresh perspective.
It's time for a new world of science fiction possibilities, one that’s about adventure, hope... and a whole lot of fun!
We welcome proposals from both established authors and a new generation of writers with skill and imagination who wish to expand this bold universe. Learn more about writing for the Out of Time series here.
Storm's Eye
by October K. Santerelli
Olivia Becker of Calimesa, California lost everything — her home and possessions — to a raging wildfire. Worse, Dad then took her to live with his fiancée and her kids. Enough! If no one will listen here, she’ll go somewhere else! Only somewhere else turns out to be 300 years in the future. There, Project Hourglass asks fourteen-year-old Olivia to lead a team of other time-yanked teens from across the centuries, all to save a stranded interstellar colony.
Planet Noros is beautiful, stormy, and dangerous! With help from Najwa, Leonidas, Everet, and the floating AI Giotto, Olivia must cross the stars, face the fury of a storm world, unite a team that spans thousands of years, rescue 300 marooned teens, and make it back before they all run out of time.
Purchase Storm's Eye at:
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The Archimedes Gambit
by Patrick Freivald
Yanked ahead four centuries, Bronx high schooler Meagan Cohen finds herself teamed with three other teens from various eras — Karter, a cat-eyed gangboy from decades in her future, Dae-Jung from 1930s Korea and Parrette, a companion of Joan of Arc. Together with some 24th century youths, they were supposed to negotiate a treaty between humanity and the alien Tarn. Until something goes terribly wrong. Deadly sabotage reveals a danger more fearsome than any alien: the advanced artificial intelligence Archimedes has gone rogue, killing in its bid for freedom and dominance!
In a desperate race against time, the team of time-yanks must hurry across the solar system to confront Archimedes before its plan unravels time itself.
Purchase The Archimedes Gambit at:
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Yanked
by Nancy Kress
In Yanked, the first Out of Time novel, Nebula Award winning author Nancy Kress takes you on an adventure with a 10th Century Viking girl, a New Jersey high school basketball star and a young thief from Shakespeare's London, who are yanked into a future of both promise and peril and asked to achieve what adults of that time cannot... rescue a lost star-colony. But even if they succeed, will they ever make it back home?
Purchase Yanked at:
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Tiger In the Sky
by Sheila Finch
In Sheila Finch's Tiger In the Sky (awarded the San Diego Book Award in the Youth Fiction category), a pair of teens are yanked from 1999 to a space station on the edge of the solar system, where they join forces with a time-yanked cabin boy from Sir Francis Drake’s crew — and a reconstructed saber-tooth tiger — to battle a hive-minded alien menace. But how do you fight an enemy you can't bear to destroy?
Purchase Tiger In the Sky at:
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The Game of Worlds
by Roger MacBride Allen
In Roger MacBride Allen's The Game of Worlds (winner of the 2000 Hal Clement Award for best YA science fiction novel), Adam O'Connor is no stranger to trouble. But even Adam can't have predicted the brand of trouble that awaits him when he's yanked to 2345 to attend an historic meeting between humans and the warlike K'lugu and Devlins. Will he display the "grit" that only a select few in his generation possess, and become the hero that he is destined to be?
Purchase The Game of Worlds at:
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Apple iTunes US: iBook and audiobook
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a brief intro to science fiction author DAVID BRIN
To learn more, visit his books page, or see his "about me" page or detailed biography.
novels
David Brin's science fiction novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages. They range from bold and prophetic explorations of our near-future to Brin's Uplift series, envisioning galactic issues of sapience and destiny (and star-faring dolphins!). Learn More
shorter fiction
Short stories and novellas have different rhythms and artistic flavor, and Brin's short stories and novellas, several of which earned Hugo and other awards, exploit that difference to explore a wider range of real and vividly speculative ideas. Many have been selected for anthologies and reprints, and most have been published in anthology form. Learn More
Contrary Brin blog
Since 2004, David Brin has maintained a blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future — themes his science fiction and nonfiction writings continue to explore. Learn More
social media influencer
Who could've predicted that social media — indeed, all of our online society — would play such an important role in the 21st Century — restoring the voices of advisors and influencers! Lively and intelligent comments spill over onto Brin's social media pages. Learn More
scientist
David Brin's Ph.D in Physics from the University of California at San Diego (the lab of nobelist Hannes Alfven) followed a masters in optics and an undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Caltech. Every science show that depicts a comet now portrays the model developed in Brin's PhD research. Learn More
transparency expert
Brin's non-fiction book, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?, continues to receive acclaim for its accuracy in predicting 21st Century concerns about online security, secrecy, accountability and privacy. Learn More
speaker & consultant
Brin speaks plausibly and entertainingly about trends in technology and society to audiences willing to confront the challenges that our rambunctious civilization will face in the decades ahead. He also talks about the field of science fiction, especially in relation to his own novels and stories. To date he has presented at more than 200 meetings, conferences, corporate retreats and other gatherings.Learn More
future/tech advisor
Brin advises corporations and governmental and private defense- and security-related agencies about information-age issues, scientific trends, future social and political trends, and education. Urban Developer Magazine named him one of four World's Best Futurists, and he was cited as one of the top 10 writers the AI elite follow. Past consultations include Google, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, and many others. Learn More
