Tickets to Paradise

Curt Lavin didn't believe in time travel until he met a man who was already ancient. When his mentor, archaeologist Dr. Champ Chadwick, uncovers something extraordinary in the Iranian desert, what begins as a straightforward expedition becomes a journey through half a million years of human history. Rog Tanlu claims to be a refugee from the Ice Age, preserved in stasis by an ice stone that serves as a doorway through time itself. He has watched civilizations rise and fall. He remembers things that should have been forgotten. And now he has emerged into a world he barely recognizes, carrying secrets that could unravel everything we think we know about who we are and where we came from. This is mid-century science fiction at its most inventive: a pulp adventure wrapped around a genuinely mind-bending premise about time, memory, and what it means to be human across the vast sweep of history. For readers who want their escapism with a side of existential vertigo.