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  • By: Marty Essen
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  • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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By: Marty Essen
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Summary

An irreverent, liberal, twisty time-travel comedy! 

What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, American slavery, World War II, global warming, and an egomaniacal US president who thought he was smart enough to drop nuclear bombs here and there without negative consequences? What if that change also made the United States and five billion people poof from existence? Would you do it? 

When alien time travel specialists, the Krichards, learn of President Handley's game of dodge-the-mushroom-cloud, they race to Earth to investigate. For them, the question of whether it's worth it to change history is easy to answer, but they will only proceed if the human they deem best qualified to represent Earth agrees to make the change. Erasing Handley's nuclear annihilation will require a quick jump to AD 31 to correct an error in history. If the Krichards select a brilliant scientist or an elite athlete for the task, Earth may be in good hands. Instead they select Marty Mann, a mildly successful travel writer whose only superpower is not taking life too seriously. What could possibly go wrong? 

Spanning from the Cretaceous period to 2056, Time Is Irreverent is a hilarious, thought-provoking satire, with unpredictable twists, colorful aliens, huge dinosaurs, a smokin' hot lesbian from the future, and a cameo from Jesus Christ himself! 

Publisher's Warning: This book is intended for a liberal audience and features satirical content that may not be appropriate for Donald Trump supporters or those who are offended by views that challenge traditional religious beliefs. Common side effects include wide smiles, sudden laughter, and occasional snorts. Listener discretion is advised.

©2018 Marty Essen (P)2018 Marty Essen

Critic reviews

“Highly recommend. It’s fun, clever, cool, witty, surprising, political, sexy, everything a sci-fi book should be. And as someone who’s also written a sci-fi-time-travel-humor novel, I love that Marty Essen doesn’t break the time rules he sets up from the start – so many sci-fi authors do, and as far as I’m concerned, that's just lazy writing. Not the case here! Yes, his characters learn and adapt and grow, but the foundation of his rules remain intact always. To repeat: fun, witty, surprising, sexy. Highly recommend.” (Jeff Abugov, writer, producer, director, and Golden Globe Award, Peabody Award, and People’s Choice Award-winner)

“[Time Is Irreverent is] a delightful romp that scores solid satirical points about religion, human nature, sex, the Trump administration, and a great deal more.” (Tom Flynn, Free Inquiry magazine)

“Ironic, original, hysterically funny, deftly crafted, and an impressively entertaining read from first page to last, Time Is Irreverent by Marty Essen is an especially and unreserved recommended for community library Science Fiction & Fantasy collections. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of dedicated science fiction fans that Time Is Irreverent is also available in a digital book format.” (Midwest Book Review)

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Not really my cuppa tea

I couldn't bring myself to finish this book. Performance was good but this wasn't really my cup of tea. I really wanted to like this book though.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

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As a fun (dare I say, irreverent) story

Definitely entertaining. I enjoyed this in audiobook format. Maybe it's the difference between UK and US politics but I'm not sure it needed all the pre-empting of politically rivalry and warnings. It detracted from the fun story. The political jabs against the current disturbing trends coming from positions of leadership are very on-the-nose and lack even a hint of subtlety but they do provide a solid grounding for absurdist comedy created by the realisation that some of the these situations aren't actually that inconceivable in the current climate. As a fun (dare I say, irreverent) short story, this is strong enough to stand on it's own. It's no 'Idiocracy', but if you enjoyed that you'll be right at home in the dystopian world dreamt up here. If you like arguing US politics you might enjoy it even more.

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Awesome idea but…

The author Marty Essen imagination is absolutely amazing only that I believe that he over done it, especially a person would think that if by a mistake you time traveled to the time of dinosaurs you would know that everything around would try to kill you so any rational person would climb the tallest tree waiting to go back not go exploring like a fool.
But I really enjoyed it all because of it is a totally fun science fiction without hard headaches unsolvable science just pure joy !!!

Michael Fell narrated the book and each character perfectly !!!


Absolutely recommended for all !


Oded Ostfeld.



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Entertaining yarn

This may not be the great American novel, or even ‘good ‘literature -
But it is deffinitely worth a great many chuckles. Very funny if you in 2019 look at the States from the outside -
And you’re not a religious fanatic, or xenophobe, or homophobe, misogynist et cetera.

The writer does not put pretend and does not put on airs. A down-to-the-ground alien/human lovestory without all the pesky sex details, yay!
Sometimes the 39 year old main protagonist sounds and acts like a teenager, but he is a man (..) nonetheless...and very poltically correct ( in my opinion ;-)

The reader does a good job. I wish he would have stayed on for the next book...

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truly dreadful

wow! just awful. poor narration and the story is woefully lacking anything sensible or believable. do not believe the "fake" official reviews

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