Josh had no future until he discovered he could travel back into the past One step away from prison, 17-year-old Joshua Jones breaks into the house of the local eccentric, the Colonel, and finds himself transported back to Hitler's war rooms in 1944. The Colonel rescues Josh and introduces him to a secret society of time travellers sworn to protect the future, taking him on an epic adventure into the alternate histories and guilds of the Oblivion Order. But Josh struggles to escape his broken past and the death of his best friend. Caught between a magical world of possibilities and a life of crime, will he use his new-found powers to alter his timeline? Can the Order help him to find the future he never dreamed he could have? The Anachronist is the first novel in The Infinity Engines Series. If you're a fan of time travel, fantasy and history, then you'll love this fast-paced adventure!

What if you could return to your youth, but with all the skills and experience you have now? The Latin phrase quondam et futurus translates as "Once and Future," which describes the way Quondam Anon lives his life. One minute, he's the quintessential whiny teen hero, and in the blink of an eye, he becomes the aged mentor, wise beyond his years. In this, the 3rd book of the Anachronist Chronicles, Quondam and his giant friend Munder travel through 13th Century Eastern Asia, get all mixed up in historical events, and fight the bloodthirsty minions of the Infinis, an eternally suicidal death god. To make things worse, Quondam can't remember fighting the same battles thirty years earlier, and Munder keeps turning more and more bestial. Oh, and Quondam's wooden sword might have a mind of its own. What if the Earth is doomed to destroy itself, and there's nothing Quondam can do to stop it?

A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists—a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to be Early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoieton (or “image made without hands”), the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. Although a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an origin outside of time, in divinity. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories.

"The Chronos Resurgence: Echoes of Time" by James "JimDandy" Dennis is a thrilling voyage into a future world in the year 2360. At the heart of this captivating narrative lies the discovery of the Chronos Resurgence, a mysterious device capable of reshaping the very fabric of the universe. As the protagonist, Ethan, stumbles upon this enigmatic artifact, he embarks on a journey of unrivaled curiosity and relentless experimentation that will change his life and the world he knows. In a technologically advanced utopia known as Prime Meridian, Ethan's once routine existence transforms into a fantastical adventure, blurring the lines between science fiction and reality. With the Chronos Resurgence's boundless potential at his fingertips, Ethan's every discovery and experiment sends him hurtling into uncharted territory, where each revelation unravels new mysteries and unforeseen consequences. Amid this gripping exploration, Ethan encounters a captivating cast of characters, each contributing unique perspectives and goals to the unfolding narrative. None more intriguing than Zin Xia, whose enigmatic objectives entwine with Ethan's quest, adding an element of suspense and intrigue. As the story unfolds, "The Chronos Resurgence: Echoes of Time" explores themes of love, unity, and the profound mysteries of time itself. With a future on the brink of transformation, hope guides Ethan as he ventures boldly into an uncertain world, one risky discovery at a time. Dennis's work is an exhilarating blend of science fiction and adventure. It offers readers a heart-pounding journey through an unknown future where the boundaries of possibility are pushed to their limits.

The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present. Through an examination of literary, cinematic, and popular texts and practices, this book investigates how twenty-first century historical fictions use creative anachronisms as a way of understanding modern issues and anxieties. Drawing together a wide range of texts across all forms of historical fiction - novels, dramas, musicals, films and television - this book re-frames anachronism not as an error, but as a deliberate strategy that emphasises the fictionalising tendencies of all forms of historical writing. The book achieves this by exploring three core themes: the developing trends in the twenty-first century for creators of historical fiction to include deliberate anachronisms, such as contemporary references, music, and language; the ways in which the deliberate use of anachronism in historical fiction can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present, and; the way that contemporary historical fiction uses anachronism to better understand modern issues and anxieties. This book will appeal to students and scholars of historical fiction, contemporary historical film and television studies, and historical theatre studies.