Kindle Edition Amazon Books by Chuck Category:  Fantasy Publisher: Whiz Bang LLC ISBN-10:  1493761056 Type: Fiction Pages: 304 Copyright: 2013 ISBN-13: 9781493761050 Price: $3.99 (eBook) A science fiction fantasy written with the wonderment we used to love in those classic pulp magazines ...yet as up-to-date as modern-day hydrogeology. H.L.Osterman, Editor of Time Travel and Other Science Fiction Journeys You and your wife are old, very old. On your 54th wedding anniversary, an accident happens and you wake up the next morning as a 19-year-old hunk. Two days later, your wife becomes a 16-year-old knockout. You are soon arrested as a sexual predator for sleeping with your wife, and she is placed into Child Protective Custody. When you two undo that mess, you have to celebrate Thanksgiving with your adult children and grandchildren, who still expect you to be that same old doddering couple, not teenagers. The mirth ends when you both end up sleeping on the dirt floor of your own mud hut in Kenya, Africa. But you bring joy and health to hundreds of the natives as a result. Then you are stabbed in a fight and approach death. Escaping from that world back to your home in Alabama, you use science to discover how you and your bride became teenagers again, and struggle to use that knowledge to bring health and long life to all humanity. Decades of international missions pass, and your wife reminds you that you are 127 years old, and that your 100th anniversary is around the corner. The two of you, once again old, decide to start all over again, becoming teenagers the same way you did 46 years earlier.      Excerpt Jake by now had stepped way back near the hallway to the front door. It shortly opened, and in walked Cody. “You’re Mr. Harding, aren’t you,” he said to Jake. “I remember going to your Attorney office in Dothan once with my dad.” Without waiting for a response, he looked around the room; saw his mother and father seated on the couch, and two teenagers standing nearby, all with drinks in their hand, and all participating in a heated conversation. Not wanting to interrupt, he continued standing next to Jake, and whispered, “Where’s grandma and grandpa?” And after a slight pause, “Wow, that’s a cute little chick standing there, just about my age. Could you introduce me to her?” Jake almost broke into laughter, but suppressed it, and seeing the opportunity to inject a little merriment into the all-too-serious conversation in the room, gently pushed Cody along as he walked toward Jennie, saying, “Jennie, this young man thinks you’re cute, and wants to be introduced to you.” Cody said, “Hi Jennie, wanna’ go watch a new DVD movie with me out in my folks’ SUV?” Clay couldn’t suppress his laughter, and let it flow all the way out from his belly up through his mouth into the otherwise silent room. Jake quickly interrupted, “Cody, Jennie is your grandma.” “She is not my grandma; my grandma’s an old lady!”

A Different Take on Time Travel
Chuck Van Soye keeps taking on new writing challenges, perhaps influenced by his background of serving as a chemical engineer, a participant in the sales and marketing aspect of business, and as an editor and writer for McGraw-Hill. He has written countless articles on various subjects from fact to fiction, from intrigue to expose of government and prison reform, from armchair musings on life, and now he adds science fiction fantasy to that repertoire. His writing style is straightforward, no pretense, easily readable and accessible, and able to blend intrigue with warm humor.

Van Soye takes a different slant on the concept of time travel and it is a refreshing one. An elderly couple, Clay and Jennie Evans, decide to spend their 54th wedding anniversary in Florida - the oldest city in the US, St. Augustine to be exact, where their sight seeing includes visiting the Fountain of Youth where Ponce De Leon landed in 1513. Taking a tumble into the waters of the fountain results in a transformation for Clay: he awakens the next morning in the body he had as a teenager. Shocked and delighted the couple soon arrange for a similar transformation to happen with Jennie and it is this leap back in time appearance that confuses their family and their own perception of how people's reaction to teenagers differs from that to seniors and results in the investigation of a sect of Renewables that seduces and transports them to Kenya and as their story continues they are caught up in DNA facts and questions, toy with PDL water (`the humanization of monoclonal antibodies and a new generation of targeted treatments for cancer and immunologic diseases'), or as Van Soye relates it, `they're playing with samples of their own DNA, and snipping key fragments embodying the Renewables sequence from them, and then sticking those fragments on ordinary DNA from other donors'. In other words, the experience Clay and Jennie have had is an introduction to a science to enable humanity to enjoy longer lives.

The story gets a bit dodgy at times, but the overriding feeling of it is an escapade by seniors that rivals the current trend in youngsters' obsession with like stories from comic books and games. Just relax with it and go along for the fun ride. Grady Harp, March 14