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Shel Shelbourne is dead and buried. His friend Dave knows this for sure: He’s just returned home from Shel’s funeral. So how come he finds Shel standing—alive and well—in his living room?

It all starts when Shel’s father, Michael, a famous physicist, mysteriously vanishes without a trace. Soon after, Shel receives a letter with a key and Michael’s final request—destroy the three devices he stashed in a safe deposit box, devices he invented. But Shel, being a physicist himself, isn’t inclined to dispose of the gadgets without knowing what they do. A little tinkering...and he finds himself transported across time and space!

Letting Dave in on the secret of the Q-Pods, as Michael dubbed them, Shel sets out to find his father. While he and Dave explore the most significant places and events in human history—from Renaissance Italy to the Library at Alexandria to Selma, Alabama—they find time to get rich, find romance and visit the year 30,000 AD. But their awesome adventure also has some major-league downsides....

With Time Travelers Never Die, Nebula winner Jack McDevitt reminds us what he does best—thrilling SF adventures that are at once brainy and stylish, and yet wonderfully down to earth.