Quick pacing, complex characters, and a fascinating premise. Letting go of a life he cant really remember anyhow doesnt seem like such an enormous sacrifice to a man displaced in time. Chen's concept is unique, and agony is deeply moving. With his daughter's very existence at risk, he will have to take one final trip to save her-even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process. Torn between two lives, Kin's desperate efforts to stay connected to both will threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself. Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he's been gone only weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him.

Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, until one afternoon, his 'rescue' team arrives-eighteen years too late. Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter.īut his current life is a far cry from his previous career.as a time-traveling secret agent from over a century in the future. He'll go anywhere and any when to save his daughter One of Entropy's Best Fiction Books of 2019 Its the story of a father, a daughter, and a love stronger than time itself. One of The Nerd Daily's Best Debut Novels of 2019įeatured in The Millions 'A Year in Reading' Here and Now and Then is a page-turner, an examination of love and loss, and, most of all, a dazzling debut from a wonderfully unique new voice.' Michael Moreci (Black Star Renegades, Star Wars) Mike Chens debut novel is a generous, warm-hearted adventure.

One of Book Riot's Best Books of 2019 So Far One of BookBub's Best Science Fiction Books of 2019 From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: BrotherhoodĪ Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 Semifinalist

Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen