30th Century Escape Book Report

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30th Century Escape, a time-travel epic by Dr. Mark Kingston Levin, follows Captain Jennifer Hero as she deploys a group of Secret Society operatives on a mission to save humans from a race of genetically-altered super-humans called Syndos. Armed with the Trans-Time One time machine and a V7 virus engineered to make Syndos less aggressive, Captain Hero sends her SS troops back to the 27th century to cure the Syndos. As explosions threaten to destroy the time machine, Jennifer changes the settings and escapes to the 21st century. Why has Captain Hero abandoned her team?
Awareness returning in her escape pod, Jennifer finds herself on Moruroa Atoll in the South Pacific. Alone and stranded, she falls back on her military training to survive until the chance arrival of Professor Marty Zitonick and his crew on a marine biology research expedition. Marty and his students rescue Jennifer, and she returns with them to Tahiti and later Hawaii. One chance encounter and turn of fate after the other has Jennifer mistaken for a woman who has been missing for several years named Jennifer Hero. Jennifer assumes this woman’s identity and thus begins her new life in the 21st century. …show more content…

Jennifer begins to explore her intellectual interests in archeology and physics, while at the same time exploring her sexuality and love interests with Marty. Levin presents Jennifer as smart, strong, sexy yet vulnerable, and this makes for a perfect heroine in the story. Marty, being a Ph.D. scientist, professor, pilot and former military, and father of five makes for an interesting leading man. Supporting characters also play a key role in the story as Jennifer meets and forms relationships with Alice and Mike, Marty’s colleagues, Jules and Eva, the guardians of the Hero estate, and so many