Introduction

Good sci-fi is something that should make the reader ponder on the meaning of things, maybe the meaning of life, who we are, what makes the world go round, what really is going on behind the scenes. As well as reading sci-fi I enjoy sci-fi movies and TV, especially stories about time travel, alternate realities, or anything unusual that makes the viewer think. I hope I have achieved something of value in Global Time Shock and that the reader will enjoy reading the story, as well as thinking about the plot, characters, and what might have been had certain historical events been changed.

If you enjoy things like time travel or war stories, then this is the story for you. What if the Nazis had invented a time machine during World War Two and Adolf Hitler had used that to travel in time to change the course of the war? But what if the time machine was not quite perfected and the unintended result was that Hitler ended up in a different time to what he expected? And what if he then managed to accomplish what he needed to do by finding a way to go back in time and change history? And what if only two people realised what had happened and were the only ones who could stop this new alternate reality?

What-if stories always appeal to us because they allow us to explore a different world, one where things turned out differently because of a few people making different decisions. The idea of the Nazis winning World War Two and ruling the world is nothing new, and it is exciting to explore this idea, up to a certain extent, to see what would have happened. It should make us more grateful that in reality the Nazis did not win World War Two and did not create the thousand-year Reich that Hitler had wanted. So we explore what might have been, not because we wished it had been that way (in fact we are glad it was not that way), but because we have to see both sides of the coin, as it were. To see what would have happened if the Allies had sat back and allowed Hitler to take over Europe, or if the Nazis had been just a bit more powerful and quicker to develop and implement the atomic bomb. It seems like we avoided a great disaster for the world in defeating Germany in World War Two, but that is not to say that it could not happen again.

So a what-if story can also warn us of the possibilities of such a thing happening in the future. Things might not be exactly as in this story, but the way the world is going we can only wonder as to where events are taking us. We shall to wait and see what happens, but if we look at how things might be different we can at least be prepared for a different and less-pleasant world to happen. Some people are amazed at the great evil of the Nazis; how could human beings do such depraved things? How could they murder millions of people in concentration camps or just through warfare? Human nature has its good side and its bad side. In the right environment the bad side can easily come to dominate and make things bad for all around.

Nothing in this story is meant to be prophetic, and only those things which actually happened in history and are documented are true. Mostly this is a work of fiction and we hope that such events never occur. We assume that Hitler died either in 1945 or much later, so he will not be around to lead a new Nazi Reich. Then again, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the Nazis did actually create a time machine and for Adolf Hitler to suddenly appear again in the world, but the probability of that is extremely small and thus negligible.

The book itself was originally written and published under a different title, back in 2015. That edition did not meet my expectations, and was withdrawn, with the intention to edit and rewrite as necessary. I decided also to rebrand, giving the book its new title, and to make something that now has a greater value to the reader than the previous version. I have also written now under a pseudonym, to distinguish my ficitonal works from my non-fiction books.

Please enjoy this story as a work of science fiction and entertainment, and after you have read it go to the website where you purchased it from and leave an honest review.

This book also has its own website at https://timeshock.uk and the main character Norton Blake has his own Twitter feed @nortonblakepi — https://twitter.com/nortonblakepi or visit the official Telegram channel at https://t.me/timeshockseries — I hope you enjoy this book.

Zak Freeman

 

Overview

The story starts with Adolf Hitler in a bunker in Berlin, April 1945. Germany is losing World War Two, and the city is being heavily bombarded by Allied and Soviet forces. But Hitler's scientists have created a time machine.

They use it to send Hitler forward in time, as Hitler wants to find out how to win the War, from the point of looking back at what happened. He expects to go a few years into the future, but is sent 70 years instead.

Next we meet Norton Blake, our protagonist in this story. He is British, but works in a detective agency in Syracuse, New York. He has an interesting encounter with a homeless man, obtains something useful, and has no idea of what is going on or about to happen in the world.

After arriving in 2015, Adolf tries to remember who he is, and ends up homeless on the streets of London. He makes a friend, while the modern-day Nazis, who have been awaiting his return, seek him out.

MI9, the former employer of Norton Blake, contact him to tell him to find Adolf Hitler, and if possible his time machine. Norton eventually finds both, but loses both, as Hitler uses the time machine to go back in time to 1941 and change history, causing a new timeline to appear around Norton.

A dystopian Nazi world, where most of Europe and most of the USA are under Nazi control, now presents itself. Can Norton and his female assistant Katrina find a way to put things right? To go back in time themselves, if they can find the time machine, and stop this madness?

Read Global Time Shock to find the answers.