MIKE MANOLAKES is an author of science fiction, historical fiction, and alternate history. He is also a Civil War reenactor, an actor, director, and retired classroom teacher. He and his wife Rae live in Arizona with their many dogs and cats.
Explore Timeband Origins in Archive Mode !
Archive Mode, the first book in the Timeband Origins series, is available now as an ebook! This series continues the story from The Traveler Series as Ruthie and the other time travelers confront the great unsolved mystery -- where did these marvelous devices called timebands come from? An improbable accident unlocks the unknown function of the timebands known as Archive Mode, and suddenly vanished timelines, once thought inaccessible, are now open to the team of Travelers. This includes the original timeline, much different from our own, where the timeband was invented. But the new discoveries lead to new dangers for the team, who meet new friends and new enemies, and one old enemy, long thought vanquished, makes his return! Archive Mode is available now from Smashwords.com and other ebook retailers.
First 5 Traveler books now in print!
The books that began the Traveler Series are now available in print! Order Variation Seven, Strange Times, Living in the Future, Dying in the Past, and Travelers' Tales from Lulu.com to have your own print copies of these science fiction adventures.
Travel through time in The Traveler Series!
The Traveler Series begins with Variation Seven and continues in Strange Times, Living in the Future, Dying in the Past, Travelers' Tales, Past and Future Tense, Future Imperfect, and Final Variation. What if you had a cybernetic device on your arm that could send you into the past or the future? What if you could speed time up, slow it down, or stop time entirely? The Traveler Series is the story of Ruthie, a woman who obtains just such a device, and how she becomes involved in a war between rival groups of time travelers, each rewriting history to suit their own purposes.
Explore a darker version of history in The McClellan Regime
What if General George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, had taken his huge army into the nation's capital in 1862 and installed himself as the new dictator of the United States? This dark version of an alternate America is revealed in The McClellan Regime, a new series that begins with the novel American Bonaparte. Ten years after the arrest of Abraham Lincoln and the suspension of the US Constitution, a daring newspaper reporter seeks to learn the truth behind McClellan's oppressive regime. Accompanied by disgraced former general Ulysses S. Grant and aspiring author Ambrose Bierce, he finds himself trapped in a web of intrigue and danger. Now available as an ebook from Smashwords.com and in print from Lulu.com.