A time bending rebellion. Android hunters. Arranged ancestry. The only way to survive is to shatter the future.
Title: The Ends of Time
Author: R. Morello
Series: Standalone Novel
Publisher: Cathedral Rocks Publishing
ISBN: 9798882859007
Format: Ebook and Paperback
Pages: 129
Word Count: 30,200
Genre: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Paradox
When rebels Gary and Josh attempt to stop a dictator from weaponizing time travel, their mission devolves into a desperate chase across centuries, involving android hunters, manipulated ancestry, and a collapsing future.
The Ends of Time is a time bending sci fi thriller about rebellion, paradox, and survival. When Gary and Josh attempt to stop a dictator from weaponizing time travel, their mission collapses into a chase across centuries involving android hunters, arranged ancestry, and a collapsing future.
“The Ends of Time” begins at the height of a rebellion. Gary and Josh infiltrate the mansion of Dictator Thayne, a ruthless leader preparing to weaponize time travel. His plan: allow the wealthy to purchase arranged ancestry, ensuring their bloodlines are placed together across centuries, while ordinary people are scattered across the world with engineered randomness. The result is a future where power is guaranteed, rebellion is impossible, and free will becomes an illusion.
The rebels arrive too late. Thayne’s forces ambush them, and in a last, desperate escape, Gary is forced through a damaged time portal, shot in the back as he disappears.
Gary is thrown into the past, watching the dictator’s attack on history unfold firsthand. Years pass as he navigates a fractured world shaped by engineered lineage and sees aristocratic ancestors transported forward in time to witness an “unoccupied future” designed to validate Thayne’s rule.
Through calculated risk and sheer survival instinct, Gary inserts himself into one of these time tourist groups and makes it to a future checkpoint, where he finds Josh but years younger, still five years away from the rebellion they once fought together.
Convincing Josh of the truth is difficult. The paradox is worse.
Android hunters are already tracking him.
The timeline is already cracking.
And the dictatorship he tried to stop has been preparing for this encounter for decades.
With assassins closing in, Gary and Josh must outrun Planetary Police Robots, cross collapsing timestreams, and hide Gary’s younger self before the paradox catches up.
As Thayne tightens his grip across eras and begins erasing entire generations, Gary discovers the true horror: the dictator isn’t just protecting the future, he’s rewriting ancestry itself to ensure the rebellion never existed.
What begins as a mission to stop a time weapon becomes a desperate fight to preserve the integrity of history. Gary and Josh must fracture the dictator’s engineered timeline before it collapses into a paradox that wipes out rebels, freedom, and even their own existence.
“The Ends of Time” is a relentless, high concept thriller about rebellion, identity, and the price of altering destiny. It blends the tension of a chase narrative with the intellectual punch of time-travel paradox, delivering a story where every decision ripples across centuries.
The Weaponization of Time: Discusses the terrifying possibilities and ethical nightmares of using time travel as a tool for political control and warfare.
The Grandfather Paradox and Ancestry: Explores time travel paradoxes and the chilling concept of a dictator manipulating the lineage of rebels to ensure their non existence.
High Octane Sci Fi Chase: Focuses on the thrilling, non stop pursuit across different time periods, appealing to action and thriller fans.
Fighting for Free Will: The core theme revolves around the struggle of the protagonists to maintain free will and historical integrity against a totalizing regime.
A fast paced, high concept time travel thriller with serious stakes, where every jump risks a paradox.
Features relentless android hunters as antagonists, providing an element of sci fi action and terror.
Blends the intellectual puzzle of time travel with the emotional resonance of familial and ancestral ties.
A focused, exciting standalone narrative.
Fans of time travel fiction that explores the consequences of paradox, such as The Time Traveler’s Wife or Back to the Future with a dystopian edge.
Readers who enjoy fast paced science fiction thrillers, similar to The Terminator or Minority Report.
Anyone looking for a story about rebellion against tyranny across the ages.
R. Morello writes psychological and surreal science fiction that explores grief, identity, memory, and the hidden emotional worlds people carry inside them. Shaped by New England roots, his work blends speculative concepts with deeply human storytelling.
R. Morello is a speculative fiction author whose work blends psychological tension, cinematic surrealism, and deeply human emotional arcs. His novels and novellas, including Upside Down, Fractured Echoes, and the Simulation trilogy, explore grief, identity, and the unseen internal worlds we rarely reveal.
His stories often feature “dual selves,” mirrored identities, looping realities, and emotional architectures made literal.
He writes for readers who want more than escapism stories that feel uncomfortably true, beautifully painful, and haunting long after the final page.
ISBN: 979-8882859007
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R. Morello
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