Escape From the Future and Other Stories Author:Paul Clayton What if you had access to a time machine and could go back to visit a deceased love... one more time. Would you? In 1962, Bobby Newman’s Grandpa, a basement inventor, loses his wife to cancer, then begins to lose his mind to grief. While tuning up his not-yet-perfected time machine for one last visit with his wife, he end... more »s up going the wrong way... into the dystopian future of 2025. Inexplicably, he sends the machine back. Fourteen-year-old Bobby uses it to lead Mom and Dad on a mission to find Grandpa and bring him back. But Grandpa has other ideas...
This volume brings together five of Paul Clayton's most ambitious stories to date, stories that juxtapose a familiar America of the very recent past with ominous new versions of the country now coming into focus.« less