Steven Lower

Travels Through Time Steven Lower

The year is 2118. Time travel had been proven feasible in the 2080s, and trips to the past were now a fact of life for those who could afford it. This had started out as any previous Field Trip in Time, the adjunct to Professor Nathan Roberts' historical geology class at Oklahoma State University. This trip travels through hundreds of millions of years of geologic time to witness the evolution of life and the changing continents. Unlike his previous highly acclaimed field trips in time, though, Professor Roberts knew that this trip was a disaster. Not only had the time ship crashed, destroying the primary time travel interface, Professor Roberts had to somehow lead his students on foot across hundreds of miles of the treacherous and unforgiving, dinosaur-infested late Cretaceous of 70 million years in the past. Professor Roberts knew there would be no rescue; when they were overdue to return to the present it would be impossible to send a rescue party to find this exact moment in time they were in. Professor Roberts and his students were on their own. They had left behind the supply trailer on the shore of the Western Interior Seaway during their day trip into the late Cretaceous. Not only had Professor Roberts lost students on this journey, he had to find a way to lead the remaining students to the safety of the trailer and the backup time travel interface if they had any hope for returning to the 22nd century.