Despite occasional segments that distract or feel a little overdone, Mahoney’s work is great for those who like their speculative fiction thoughtful, eloquent, and messy. Mahoney skillfully (but unsubtly) uses Barnabus’s multilayered adventures to yank readers into moments of comedy, tragedy, horror, and philosophical contemplation of time, free will, and personal responsibility. He’s accompanied by an increasingly vocal artificial intelligence named Sebastian. Mahoneys work is great for those who like their speculative fiction thoughtful. Wildebears comfortable life of sipping Lagavulin and teaching Junior High School English comes to an abrupt halt. The odyssey that follows bounces him to other planets, the minds of other people and creatures, temporal loops where effects come before causes, and a war against a merciless enemy seeking to steal the knowledge in his head. Joe Mahoney is the author of the time travel novel A Time and a Place. Mahoneys work is great for those who like their speculative fiction thoughtful, eloquent, and messy.

Joe ran a technology based startup company in the Albany area before joining. She whisks Ridley away to dimensions unknown while implanting mysterious information in Barnabus’s mind that allows him to (sort of) control portals to other dimensions and times. Joseph Mahoney is a Real Estate Salesperson for Pyramid Brokerage Company. Unfortunately the cause is an ominous entity, possibly a demon, named Iugurtha. Barnabus Wildebear needs to know why his teen nephew and ward, Ridley, is acting so strangely.

Publisher’s Weekly reviewed Joe Mahoney’s debut SF novel, A Time and a Place, and we’d have to say it’s glowing.ĭebut author Mahoney sends a mild-mannered fellow on an interdimensional journey in this entertaining, chaotic adventure. Wildebears comfortable life of sipping Lagavulin and teaching Junior High School English comes to an abrupt halt when his fifteen year old nephew Ridley is recruited by an alien to help fight a war half-way across the galaxy.

A Time and a Place by Joe Mahoney