YA Time Travel Novel

Jason Delacroix, like many young men during the Vietnam War era, was drafted into the army and forced to leave his young bride. He was surprised they wanted him due to the deafness in his right ear, but it was because of that deafness that made Jason such a valuable commodity.

Through Jason’s first person point of view, he tells a story of a time traveler from the 22^nd century traveling back to 1939 Japan to research the reasons for Japan’s entrance into World War II and why it launched an attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the “sleeping bear” into the conflict. Unfortunately for the Traveler, an accident occurs and he’s forced to remain in the 20^th century.

Robert Clemons writes his novel, The Hiroshima Agenda, by knitting together Einstein’s theories and early 21^st century speculation about wormholes, the multiverse, and space travel to present an imaginative time travel story. He has his characters relate metaphysical and quantum physics ideas as if they were facts.

The weakness of Clemons’ book is that at worst it reads like a disorganized physics textbook, and at best a novel filled with talking heads. However, the author does a good job developing his characters and driving the imaginative plot forward. Unfortunately, the settings often lack description and the author provides few visual cues.

Finally, The Hiroshima Agenda would make fascinating reading for anyone interested in time travel, but an experienced editor needs to be hired to make this book a compelling read.

About the Author

Robert Clemons is a retired military man, philosopher, theologian, amateur scientist, and author. He has traveled extensively to twenty-seven countries and six continents. Clemons lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with his wife, Phyllis. The Hiroshima Agenda is unsurprisingly his first novel.

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