Antediluvian

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What if it wasn'taliensA rousing, fast-paced novel of time travel unlike any other, from acclaimed author Wil McCarthy.

DEEP DIVE

Before disaster erased the coastlines and river valleys of the Antediluvian agebefore the mythic Floodmen and women struggled and innovated in a world of savage contrasts. It turns out that our legends of the Stone Age are even older than we think. It was a time when a world of archetypes and myths was written upon the fabric of humanity in the deepest waya world that has only been preserved in the oldest stories with no way to actually visit it.

Until now.

In a brilliant and dangerous brain-hacking experiment, Harv Leonel and Tara Mukherjee are about to discover entire lifetimes of human memory coded in our genes, and reveal ancient legendsfrom knights and trolls to the birth of humanity itselfthat are very real. And very deadly.

AboutAntediluvian:
. . . gripping and . . . grounded in archaeology.Publishers Weekly

. . . plenty of verisimilitude . . . superbly intriguing and captivating . . . bravura historical recreations, full of conjectural material. . . . Presenting us with a colorful cast of characters from across the millennia who have thick and rich existences, and affirming that the cosmic stream of life flows forcefully despite all small blockades, McCarthy has written a novel that looks both forwards and backwards, thus making a stellar return to the field.Locus

Wil McCarthy:
"McCarthy is an entertaining, intelligent, amusing writer, with Heinlein's knack for breakneck plotting and, at the same time, Clarke's thoughtfulness."Booklist

Imagination really is the only limit.The New York Times

The future as McCarthy sees it is a wondrous place.Publishers Weekly

"Abright light on the SF horizon.David Brin

Wil McCarthy demonstrates that he has a sharp intelligence, a galaxy-spanning imagination, and the solid scientific background to make it all work.Connie Willis

In nearly every passage, we get another slice of the science of McCarthys construction, and a deeper sense of danger and foreboding . . . McCarthy develops considerable tension.San Diego Union-Tribune

An ingenious yarn with challenging ideas, well-handled technical details, and plenty of twists and turns.Kirkus

Author Bio

Engineer/novelist/journalist/entrepreneur WilMcCarthy is a former contributing editor forWIREDmagazine and science columnist for the SyFychannel. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, AnLab, Colorado Book, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip K. Dick awards. His short fiction has graced the pages of Analog, Asimovs, WIRED, and SF Age, and his novels include the New York Times Notable Bloom, Amazon.com Best of Y2K The Collapsium(a national bestseller), To Crush the Moon, and Antediluvian. He has also written for TV, appeared on The History Channel and The Science Channel, and published nonfiction in half a dozen magazines.

Previously a flight controller for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems and later an engineering manager for OmnitechRobotics and founder/president/CTO of Raven Brick LLC, McCarthy hold patents of his own in seven countries, including twenty-nine issued U.S. patents in thefield of nanostructuredoptical materials.