Chrononauts

Chrononauts is a fun read.  It is actually one of the better titles to be conceived by Mark Millar.  The tag I would give this series would be its like Back to the Future without the ethics of Doc Brown.  This book is a little like Jumper in that the two main characters can travel throughout time and space bring things with them.  This book turns the idea of being a scientist is similar to being a rock star and everything that goes with it.  The two main characters in this story are Corbin Quinn and his best friend Danny Reilly.  Both are poised to make history by being the first time travelers but they are not just traveling through but they are going to broadcast it to the world.  However like all stories that deal with time travel something has gone wrong after Corbin went into the time stream. 

Danny is going to attempt to bring him back.  When he gets there he discoveries that Corbin has set himself up as a king in the ancient world giving technology to people that haven’t developed it traveling through time to see famous events, dating girls in different time periods, using his knowledge for personal gains.  Corbin even persuades his best friend Danny to join in on this time traveling hijinks.  But as the powers that be in the present are scrambling to send a team of soldiers back in time to take out our two traveling chrononauts before they cripple the time stream.  Eventually Corbin Quinn’s lifestyle comes close to getting him killed in a very Great Gatsby type fashion but Danny comes to his aid.  However their bad luck catches up with them and Corbin’s decisions lead to the death of Danny and his exile.  However because we are dealing with time travel here be the end Corbin sets everything right and he even fixes the mistakes of his past to make his life back in the present day even more to what he had wished it had been.  I really liked this book I wish it had been it little longer because it seems like Millar rushed through the ending compared to the way it started.