The Paradox Paradox - by Daniel Hardcastle (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The Paradox Paradox is a dark sci-fi comedy set hundreds of years in the future. It's also set a fair few years in the past.

Osheen Shupple has been working his entire life to resolve the paradox of a desperate audio message from years ago, one which holds a horrifying secret that will change the course of history. His plan: build a time machine and return to the source of the message. But he can't do it alone. Fortunately, the universe has supplied a perfect team: an archaeologist serving twenty-eight life sentences, a veterinarian with an identity crisis and no original body parts, a cheating university student, and a famous but very, very dead starship captain.

Together, they will be propelled across the past, and to worlds beyond their timelines, on a temporal treasure-hunt to trace the tragic truth behind whoever Austin Lang turns out to be. But time is not to be trifled with, and every misstep unmasks another layer of chronological chaos. The past can't be changed - but will there be a future worth saving...?

The Paradox Paradox is a darkly hilarious and compelling ride into the future, the past and various alternate dimensions that arise when powerful masterminds wrestle to control the universe.

Review Quotes

"[Hardcastle] melds sci-fi and offbeat humor in his quirky fiction debut. (...) The complications of time travel are suitably mind-bending, and Hardcastle deploys a rapid-fire barrage of space opera tropes, including violent deaths, a mole hunt, and a race against time." -- Publishers Weekly

"Daniel has mastered time travel to such an extent that I'm pretty sure I finished reading this three days before I started it." -- Stuart Ashen, author of Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of

About the Author

Daniel Hardcastle, aka DanNerdCubed, is a YouTube gamer who has accumulated more than 2.4 million subscribers over the course of his 4000 videos. He lives with his partner, Rebecca Maughan, in County Durham.