Picture this. A time war between Germany and Russia fought over three thousand years. And a love affair between a fourteenth century Russian girl and a twenty-ninth century Russian boy. History on an epic scale.
The trilogy of time travel novels that were eventually published as THE EMPIRE OF TIME (2015), THE OCEAN OF TIME (2016) and (to come, in 2017) THE MASTER OF TIME, began life as a 70-odd page novelette called WHEN THE SNOWS COME. That story – about a German time agent helping Hitler to succeed with Operation Barbarossa; the invasion of Russia in 1942 - was presented at a writers’ workshop where my dear friend, Geoff Ryman suggested I expand it and make it into a novel.
Which is what I did. Only by 2006, when it was ready to be presented to publishers, it was a massive 1500 pager of close on half a million words. First time round, no one took the book, and it got put in a drawer to gather dust. I knew, however, that it was the best thing I’d ever written and when I came to rework and re-present the project in 2014 (as three separate parts of a trilogy) it at last found a publisher.
As the rules change and the great Time War grows more complex, Otto has his wife and children stolen from him and hidden away in Time.
Infatuated by his young Russian bride, Otto Behr is torn between the love of his life and his duty to the Reich.
German time travel agent Otto Behr, fights his Russian enemies through 3000 years of Time and endless time-streams, seeking to eradicate them. And then he falls in love.