Paradox Bound: A Novel
- 402
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Paradox Bound: A Novel” sends its hero on a playful chase through American history in a steampunked Model A Ford. Eli Teague has waited years to meet a mysterious traveller again, and his search for answers pulls him into far more than he expected. Some readers enjoy it as a fun adventure with naturally developed characters; others find the time travel unexplained, the characters flat and the description overdone.
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About the book
“One cool novel. If the Tardis were a Ford Model A , this might be Doctor Who meets National Treasure.”—F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series “GET IN THE CAR, MR. TEAGUE. THE ROAD BECKONS.” The traveler sped through Eli Teague’s life long ago. With her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model-A Ford, she was a living anachronism, and an irresistible mystery—and she was gone as soon as she arrived, in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. So when Eli sees her again, he’s determined that this time, he’s going to get some answers. But his hunt soon yields far more than he bargained for, plunging him headlong into a dizzying world full of competing factions and figures straight out of legend. To make sense of the secret at its heart, he must embark on a breakneck chase across the country and through two centuries of history—with nothing less than America’s past, present, and future at stake. Praise for Paradox Bound “So good you’ll want to invent time travel and send a copy back to yourself, just so you can read it again for the first time. A tour de force.”—Jason M. Hough, New York Times bestselling author of The Darwin Elevator “A timey-wimey, full-barrel adventure novel that also teaches a nonironic lesson in American civics . . .
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 141 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 49% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.0 | 8 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 133 | 94% |
Frequently asked
How long is Paradox Bound: A Novel?
It has 402 pages — shorter than 60% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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