Escaping Fate by Henry Brown

Action! Adventure! Time Travel! Extraterrestrial firefights and postapocalyptic air-land battles! Football, martial arts and unapologetic testosterone!

Follow a hero-in-training on his climb to manhood through space and time, running a gauntlet through history’s dirty secrets, challenges of leadership, the pitfalls of romance…and an invisible dimension-hopping death squad!

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Pete was rescued from the dimension-hopping death squad that “erased” his biological family. Now he’s in a sort of cross-continuum witness protection program. Uncle Si gives him a new home in a peaceful neighborhood, a new life in the blissful postwar period, a new, affluent family that cares about him, and a new identity: Ike Jaeger, on an alternate path to a future that was impossible from Pete Bedauern’s native decade and circumstances.

But even at these idyllic time-space coordinates, there are challenges. Acquiring a girlfriend is a lot easier than keeping a girlfriend, for instance. A strong arm for throwing footballs is not as important as the leadership required to be a great quarterback. No matter how pleasant the environment, there will always be bullies. You have to lose some fights while learning to be a winner. And one little coding error in a warp interface’s software ca