The Timeless Void (#4-6) – Craig Robertson Free Audiobook

Written by Craig Robertson
Format: M4B
Unabridged

04 – Ryan’s Undoing

Guess who’s may just need to end time? You got it! Jon Ryan may be forced to cancel, terminate, and definitively end time itself everywhere. Why is Jon straying in that direction? Well he wanted to fix the timeline. After the Clan no-timed Earth and Jon resurrected it, he was stressed that the new future would void out the very future that gave us our hero, Jon. So he did his best to fix the timeline according to how he thought it should be.

You know how when you do something and it doesn’t turn out well at all and somebody asks you how it went and you don’t want to lie but you don’t want to tell them either? Yeah, that’s kind of how it’s going with Jon and his timeline repair job. He’s changed time, but, like monkey’s paw magic, the results are not what he desired. Now, impossible, explainable, and undesirable events are happening all over universe. Jon is beginning to lose faith in his plan. By the way, everyone else did long ago.

As reality dwindles, can Jon reverse his run of bad luck, or will he just make existence worse? The only way to find out is to read Ryan’s Undoing, Book 4 of the Timeless Void. All your questions will be answered. Now we just need to find out if Jon will like those answers. Yikes! Better read this one sitting down.

05 – Ryan’s Reboot

Jon Ryan is living his dream. To say his life was good would be a silly understatement. Sure. Come on, he did CPR on his very first girlfriend, Jenna, when they were in their tweens and narrowly saved her from drowning. Then they dated throughout high school, and were only temporarily separated when he went off to the USAF Academy and she to UCLA. But their future was looking so bright they both needed welding goggles. But, way back there in the reality that seems to always kick anyone named Jon Ryan in the ass was … er, an uncomfortable truth. His life, Jenna’s life, their life together never happened. Oops. Something happened to the time line of mid twentieth century Earth. Something OMG big. Fixed events that had happened never took place. No, the entire world was living a lie but had no way of knowing that they were. How could they? Well, turns out there was one.Toño DeJesus, tired from all his battles and torments, decided to live the life of a hermit. Two-billion years in the future, Toño moves into an abandoned asteroid. His only companion in his solitude was a sentient robotic recreation of Miguel Cervantes that he created. Together these two Spanish gentlemen shared quite times, aged sherry, and nostalgia for their homeland. But, eventually Cervantes grew restless and convinced Toño to join him is establishing relationships with society outside of their cocoon. Specifically, it turned out Miguel was horny as hell and could no longer abide their monastic lifestyle. When Toño acquiesced and took Cervantes outside the time lock that shielded their asteroid from the rest of the universe, it did not take the scientist long to discover that something was very wrong. History was not what he knew it to be. The temporal changes seemed to center on the mid twentieth century, so they journeyed there to investigate. Meanwhile, a completely new and unstoppable threat arose that promised to destroy the entire galaxy. Giant building superstructures were defeating all the advanced civilizations they encountered and then assimilating their substance. When Toño learned of this existential threat, he could only think of one solution. Task Jon Ryan with, yet again, saving our collective asses. But there was just one little problem. The only Jon Ryan available to his was the one living in the altered time line. He’d never defeated even a single alien aggressor. He had barely begun his NASA career. How was Toño going to bring a man whom he’d never even met up to the speed necessary to do what no advanced galactic civilization had so far been able to do — stop The Structure? How? It was not going to be easy. In fact, the challenge was so enormous he came to believe he needed to call upon more than one Jon Ryan. Yeah, baby! What could possibly go wrong?

06 – Ryan’s Resolution

The Jon Ryan of the distant future has an uncontrollable knack for mischief. Now it’s really gotten him in trouble. If the universe had a principal’s office, he’d be sitting outside it for the next million years! They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Look that up and you’ll find Jon’s picture in the Wikipedia article. After the evil clan no-time Earth, he simply wanted to restore his home world. And Jon did, but was he satisfied? No.Then he decided to try to repair that time line to the exact one it had originally been. Talk about a harebrained notion.

In the mean time, in the new timeline here at home, a bizarre and unstoppable threat is heading toward Earth. Gigantic building superstructures cruising through space are destroying star systems and using the raw materials left over to make copies of themselves. No civilization, no matter how advanced, has been able to even slow their progress. Facing certain destruction, a desperate future version of Dr Toño DeJesus risks teaming up with the new-timeline human version of himself. They hatch a plan to save humankind so ludicrous that it just might work. I the post-resurrection timeline, there is, of course, a version of Jon Ryan. With the original Jon off on his crazy quest, the two scientist decide to talk the new Jon in to becoming an android. Then—like his counterpart before him—he can save our collective bacon.

Why would two intelligent men of science think the new Jon, a veritable rookie, could save us? Well, because their plan incudes placing a back-up copy of the future Jon in the present one’s head. The Toños figure two Jons are not only better than one, but that that combination alone could potentially stop the juggernaut Earth faces. And no, neither Toño was drunk when they came up with this scheme. But dealing with the new Jon may well drive them to drink. He’s as impossible to handle as his namesake. But, if humans are to survive as a species, it’s Jon Ryan to the rescue or it’s curtains.

Now, no overly-complicated, absurd scheme can be too convoluted, right? Yeah, so the new Jon Ryan’s interactions with his older copy yield a most unexpected twist. If the old Jon is to help the younger one, they must first save the present-day copy of his wife, Sapale. And she’s about to be executed on Kaljax. How many saves can Team Ryan pull off? And even if the younger Sapale can be freed, how are the Jons going to stop the mean buildings-in-space? Confused yet? Well they sure are. Read Ryan’s Resolution to see if they’re achieving even one goal is gonna happen. And please, if you figure out what’s going on, let the Jons know. This time out, they’re going to need all the help they can get!