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Science Fiction Novels, by John Schettler

Meridian Series Novels - The first book in this series, Meridian, was released 11/2002 and is available in Trade Paperback. The book won the Silver Medal for Science Fiction in the prestigious ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Contest. (Read Details Here). It also received ‘Honorable Mention’ in the  2002 Writer’s Digest Book of the Year contest, (category Genre Fiction with a score of 9.5/10 - Judge’s Review Here).  In depth info on the five novel Meridian Series is here.

The Dharman Series Novels   - Comprised of Wild Zone, Mother Heart and Devil’s Garden. The first two books are now available.

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Book I: Meridian is a fast paced story of four project team members on the eve of the first live test for potential time travel into the past. Their plans to make an innocuous visit to the Globe Theatre in 1612 to watch Shakespeare’s The Tempest are rudely interrupted by a storm of terror that threatens to create one of the greatest catastrophes in history.  A six hour interval presents the possibility of reversing the disaster, if the team acts quickly. They are soon hard at work on a new target date and a mission of great urgency that will take them to the Arabian Desert in the year 1917 where they follow in the wake of one of history’s most enigmatic and daring figures, Lawrence of Arabia.  (Available now in Trade paperback)

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Book II: Nexus Point  Two months after the Palma Event the Meridian Team is trying to decide what to do with the project. Nordhausen is up to his usual antics, out to retrieve the Ammonite fossil he discovered in book I, and he has dragged Paul along with him for an adventure that neither could begin to imagine . Meanwhile, Kelly and Maeve find evidence of Nordhausen’s unauthorized use of the Arch. As they follow his tracks through time, they are suddenly alerted to the formation of a new Nexus Point on the continuum. Someone has opened a breach in time...but who? (Available now in Trade paperback)

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Book III: Touchstone  Nordhausen is up to his old tricks again...this time in  a secret time jump to have a look at the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, yet when he arrives he finds the stone is missing! Intent on uncovering the mystery, he convinces the project team to shift back to the time of the stone’s discovery, but they are shocked at what they find. The jump to Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1799 is only the beginning of this adventure when the clues soon lead them to another location in the deep desert, lost for thousands of years and hidden in the covering mists of Time. (By John Schettler and featuring a segment by Professor Nordhausen’s real life character, Mark A. Prost)

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Book I: Anvil of Fate - Volume IV of the Meridian Series finds the team finally
uncovering the true meaning of the stela unearthed in Touchstone, with clues to the most devastating attack by the Assassin cult yet. After rescuing Kelly Ramer the team plots a complex three part mission to the 8th Century to prevent the catastrophic effects of a victory in the pivotal Battle of Tours. What do an apple, a horse and an unsung hero have to do with the fate of all Western history, and Christendom itself?  Everything!

Time travel fiction at its very best as the outcome is laid on the Anvil of Fate.
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Book V: Golem 7
- The quintet of linked novels concludes when professor Nordhausen uncovers the last Assassin plot to sustain the Palma Event. Now the team is suddenly involved in one of the most famous naval sagas of all time.

A mysterious plane crash the night before Palma exploded leads the researchers to a man who was supposed to have died in WWII. When a bank of Kelly’s Golem search programs uncover the clues, the story launches into an alternate history retelling of the Royal Navy pursuit of the mighty German battleship Bismarck. Yet the pushpins here are so fragile that any intervention run seems to have unexpected consequences, and along the way Paul Dorland discovers something that completely changes his view of all history and the world itself, and sets the stage for more Meridian sequels yet to come!
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Meridian
ISBN: 0-9713170-1-1 (Print) - 978-0-9833542-5-3 (ePub)

Sci-Fi Time Travel ( 5.5” by 8.5” Quality Trade Paperback)
Full color cover
30 Chapters & Epilogue - 345 Pages
Author’s Afterword
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Digital versions available on Amazon and Smashwords

Nexus Point
ISBN: 0-9713170-9-7  -  978-0-9833542-6-0 (ePub)
Meridian Trilogy Book II (5.5” by 8.5” Trade Paperback)
Full color cover
Prologue, 30 Chapters & Epilogue - 360 Pages
3 Illustrations
Author’s Afterword
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Touchstone
0-9713170-6-2 (mobi) - 978-0-9713170-6-2 (13 Digit)
978-0-9833542-7-7 (ePub)
Meridian Trilogy Book III ( eBook Formats only)
Full color cover
Prologue, 30 Chapters, about 86,000 Words
Author’s Afterword
Avg Price: $4.99

Meridian IV: Anvil of Fate
ISBN: Coming Soon!

Sci-Fi Time Travel (Multiple eBook formats)

30 Chapters - 320 Pages, about 90,000 words

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Meridian V: Golem 7
ISBN: Coming Soon!

Sci-Fi Time Travel (Multiple eBook formats)

30 Chapters & Epilogue - 300 Pages, about 85,000 words
Author’s Afterword
$4.99 eBook
Digital versions available on Amazon and Smashwords.com

The Dharman Series Novels , By John Schettler

Book I: Wild Zone - This series of linked novels begins with Wild Zone, when a Special Services Investigator, Lt. T.S. Ryan, is sent to the Colony Prospect on Dharma-Six on a routine investigation. The mission soon deepens in mystery when Ryan, who survives a harrowing system failure on entry, learns that the Security Station on the colony has been overrun and destroyed by an “unknown alien contact.” He heads for the research station on the Colony Safe Zone and finds it intact, though abandoned. Only three robotic assistants remain behind and, as Ryan begins his search for the mission research team members, the threat arising from the Dharma-Six begins to take on ominous proportions (Available now in Trade paperback)

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Book II: Mother Heart
- The series continues when Ryan and Caruso return to Dharma-Six to recover a lost team mate. Their trek into the Wild Zone leads them into conflict with a hidden alien species and a mysterious entity buried deep beneath the surface of the planet. Mother Heart deepens and broadens the peril emerging from the tortured biosphere of the planet, where humans have blundered upon an ancient feud being waged by an insidious virus and the creator of all life on Dharma-Six, Mother Heart.

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Wild Zone
ISBN: 0-9713170-2-X (Print) - 978-0-9833542-3-9 (ePub)
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Sci-Fi Adventure ( 5.5” by 8.5” Quality Trade Paperback)
Full color cover
47 Chapters & Epilogue - 444 Pages
9 Illustrations, 1 Map
Author’s Introduction and Afterword
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Mother Heart
ISBN: 978-0-9833542-4-6 (ePub)
Sci-Fi Adventure ( ePub, Mobi, PDF)
Sequel to Wild Zone
Full color cover
47 Chapters & Epilogue - 138120 Words
Author’s Introduction and Afterword
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