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The 9/11 Machine Kindle Edition

by Greg Enslen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Doctor Donald Ellis lost his family on 9/11. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the University of New York for an ugly riverfront warehouse in Brooklyn. What is he working on? And why does he spend every free moment at the warehouse staring across the river at Ground Zero? Because Dr. Ellis has a plan. He's going to make 9/11 "unhappen." Read more at http://www.gregenslen.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0061I24TA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gypsy Publications
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 27 Oct. 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1.4 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 337 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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Greg Enslen is an Ohio author of thirty-one books, including five books in the “Frank Harper Mysteries” series and three other novels. He also writes original screenplays and guides for popular TV shows such as “Game of Thrones” and “Mr. Robot.” His books are available from major retailers and on his Amazon Author Page at http://bit.ly/geauthor.

Greg lives in southern Ohio with his wife, three children, three dogs and an indeterminate number of cats. His interests include travel, reading, film and television, and yelling at various sports franchises. Greg enjoys writing late at night, after everyone else has finally trudged off to bed and the house is quiet. For more information, visit his website at gregenslen.com or check out his Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/gregenslenswriting.

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Customers find the book engaging and well-researched, describing it as a fascinating time travel story. The writing quality receives mixed feedback, with some finding it well written while others note it's slightly repetitious at times.

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23 customers mention ‘Readability’23 positive0 negative

Customers find the book engaging and easy to read, with one customer mentioning they finished it in one weekend.

"This was a nice book which I started a nearly game up on put the more I read it the more I began to like it until in the end I could not put it down..." Read more

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"...The writer has produced a very good book with a good storyline throughout that gives the reader a lot to think about." Read more

"I'm a great fan of time travel stories and this one kept me hooked in preference to everything else...." Read more

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Customers enjoy the storyline of this book, describing it as a fascinating and great time travel narrative, with one customer noting its solid alternate history elements.

"...to like it until in the end I could not put it down but the ending was really good it wasn't really an Ending it was a beginning well done" Read more

"...a well told story that I kept on reading right to the end, and I enjoyed the ending, having worried that it would twist into a predictable standard..." Read more

"...The writer has produced a very good book with a good storyline throughout that gives the reader a lot to think about." Read more

"...A gentle thriller but with everything to lose, including our humanity, with science fiction time travel through alternate histories, interesting and..." Read more

13 customers mention ‘Thought provoking’13 positive0 negative

Customers find the book thought-provoking and particularly intriguing, appreciating its interesting ideas and speculative theories.

"As the title - an interesting idea done fairly well. The beginning was a little slow but it did pick up after a while...." Read more

"...Whilst the dialogue was a little clunky in places, the concepts were powerful and left me thinking. A clever book!" Read more

"...time travel through alternate histories, interesting and thought provoking ideas, all based around a true and world changing event combined with the..." Read more

"...whether factual or fiction, and I found it a quite interesting, albeit shocking tragedy." Read more

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Customers appreciate the research quality of the book.

"...It's clear that the author did a lot of research and thought far beyond the usually recognised boundaries of the subject and timeline." Read more

"...This book is very well written, and very well researched, and I am sure that there have been times in everyone's life when you think that if you had..." Read more

"...Well researched of both factually reported information as well as speculative theories - there is a bibliography at the end of the book as well as..." Read more

"Well written and researched. Inevitably repetitious in places, but enthralling nonetheless...." Read more

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"Really enjoyed this story and how the different timelines played out. Heart breaking the way things got worse. Satisfying ending." Read more

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Customers have mixed opinions about the writing quality of the book, with some finding it well written while others note it can be slightly repetitious at times.

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Michael
How nice
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2024
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This was a nice book which I started a nearly game up on put the more I read it the more I began to like it until in the end I could not put it down but the ending was really good it wasn't really an Ending it was a beginning well done

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JG
Interesting idea
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As the title - an interesting idea done fairly well. The beginning was a little slow but it did pick up after a while. Luckily I had taken the time to read the author's introduction so I understood the differences in the initial story. There were a few grammar tics and errors that caught my eye. It's the mark of a well told story that I kept on reading right to the end, and I enjoyed the ending, having worried that it would twist into a predictable standard finish. It's clear that the author did a lot of research and thought far beyond the usually recognised boundaries of the subject and timeline.

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vertwil
A Great Read and thought provoking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2014
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Like many people, I will always remember what I was doing on that fateful day (my toddler was very annoyed with me when I turned his TV program off to update my husband and his office of the unfolding events), and I will always remember my husband screaming in my ear about what was happening as I was unable to speak initially as the first tower collapsed! I remember the horror I felt, and how suddenly the world seemed to be a very scary place, even though I was over in the UK, but living near London, things got very scary for a few weeks. I have always been a fan of sci fi and time travel in particular, so this book appealed to me a lot.

This book is very well written, and very well researched, and I am sure that there have been times in everyone's life when you think that if you had pre warning of events that you would have done things different, well this book makes you think, just what would I have done if I had known about the attacks before hand? and what would I have done to try and prevent them?

I have not read any of this author's other books, but I am planing to do so now. I urge you to read the forward before you start the book, as it explains things that may otherwise confuse you to start with.

This story is written form a personal angle, dealing with one man's struggle to deal with how his life changed forever after that fateful day. Does he get to prevent the attacks? does he make thing better? you will need to read the book to find out. as he says, 'things could have been so much worse'

In the middle of reading this, there was the disaster with the South Korean Ferry sinking with lots of children on board, and I found myself thinking, what if you knew about it in advance, what would you do? this is how much the book affected me.

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matthew
A solid alternate history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 March 2014
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I like the concept of Greg Enslen's history. Whilst the dialogue was a little clunky in places, the concepts were powerful and left me thinking. A clever book!

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Phil
and repeatedly makes things worse and a lot worse
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2017
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Donald Ellis is a scientist who lost his wife and daughter at the World Trade Centre at 9/11 and starts wondering what if he could change things. He uses science to try and do this, and repeatedly makes things worse and a lot worse.

He makes one final trip to ensure that his family remain intact realising that this is best solution out of a bad bunch.

I enjoyed this book and was interesting to see how bad that day could have. The writer has produced a very good book with a good storyline throughout that gives the reader a lot to think about.

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Norma Miles
"Like water through your hands."
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 June 2018
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After viewing the terrible events of 9/11, a brilliant physicist returns home to find a note from his wife, Sarah, to say that she has taken their daughter to visit an old friend who has just started a new job in the World Trade Centre. Devastated at their loss on that terrible day, and haunted by the memory of the Twin Towers once visible from his window, Don painstakingly builds a machine to take him back in time before that eventful day to save his family and, if possible, stop the attack.

Well researched of both factually reported information as well as speculative theories - there is a bibliography at the end of the book as well as highlighted events which, amongst others, have given rise to various conspiracy ideas (there is also a button to access the theories themselves), the story is fascinating in that it visits various time lines, each an alternate history version of the event, and shows just a few of possible 'what-might-happen' futures. And that, despite the shock and devastating loss of life, "it could have been worse."
Particularly intriguing, also, was the peek back in time to the end of the twentieth century and the absence of so much we now take for granted - ipads and Wikipedia, to name but two.

Although slightly repetitious at times, especially in the early chapters, making for an overloaded text, the book is otherwise we'll written and constantly absorbing with some terrifying possibilities presented without both descriptions, thank goodness. A gentle thriller but with everything to lose, including our humanity, with science fiction time travel through alternate histories, interesting and thought provoking ideas, all based around a true and world changing event combined with the concept of a man in search of his family.

Great story, fascinating content, well written and researched - highly recommended

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John Chapman
Simply brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2017
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I'm a great fan of time travel stories and this one kept me hooked in preference to everything else. I particularly like the way the author dealt with the creation of different time streams. A time traveller could step back in time and create a new stream by applying a fix. He could then never return to his own stream.
Of course any fix has the potential of making matters worse. If that happens he tries again.
It's a storyline which has been used in many time travel stories - Star Trek Voyager used it in 'The year of hell'. In this case the author used this theme to explain away many of the inconsistencies of the 9/11 event in a way the makes the reader begin to wonder 'Could that really be the...'
Get this story - you won't regret it.

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Random Citizen
Overall a good read.
Reviewed in Canada on 1 October 2015
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A good read. Well researched and plausible. Like most self-pubs, could use the attentions of an editor, but the issues were minor and not particularly distracting. I'd like to give it 4.5 stars, because of a moment of deus ex machina when he goes into the future for medical treatment, but amazon doesn't allow half-stars, and 4 is unfairly low.

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Müller
Gut durchdachter Zeitreise Thriller
Reviewed in Germany on 11 July 2020
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Bei den Anschlägen vom 11.9.2001 verliert der Physiker Dr. Donald Ellis Frau und Tochter. Also baut er sich eine Zeitmaschine, die ihn zurückschicken kann, lange vor die tragischen Ereignisse. Das ist zwar nicht ganz so einfach, wie es hier klingt, aber er schafft es. Ausgestattet mit Beweisen und genügend Informationen über die Zukunft etabliert er sich als Unternehmer, scheffelt ordentlich Geld und baut eine neue Maschine, während er die Regierung überzeugt, dass seine Warnungen ernst zu nehmen sind. Das gelingt ihm sogar und Maßnahmen werden ergriffen.
Leider geht Dons Unternehmen gründlich schief. Die Anschläge finden trotzdem statt, zeitlich verschoben oder mit anderen Zielen, weil die Attentäter durch die ungeschickten Überwachungsversuche der Behörden gewarnt werden. Und das nicht nur einmal. Es gelingt Don Ellis immer wieder, eine neue und verbesserte Maschine zu bauen, mit der er wieder in die Vergangenheit reist, um es nochmal zu versuchen, aber irgendwie wird alles nur noch schlimmer. Es sind alles neue Zeitlinien, in denen er sich zum Teil selbst begegnet und sein jüngeres Ich zur Zusammenarbeit bewegt. Mal ist es Clinton oder George Bush, mal Dick Cheney, mal Al Gore als Präsident. Sie lassen sich alles irgendwie überzeugen, doch sind es meist die Handlungen danach, die zur Katastrophe führen. Am schlimmsten vermasselt es der anfangs so positiv aussehende Gore. Die USA und ein großer Teil der Welt verwandeln sich in eine radioaktive Wüste. Völlig verstrahlt rettet sich Don in die Zukunft, wo man ihn heilen kann. In einem letzten Versuch – ohne die Regierung einzubeziehen – gelingt es ihm, die Auswirkungen von 9/11 zu begrenzen: auf das, was wir aus unserer Realität kennen, wie man plötzlich merkt.
Das Buch ist ein Wissenschafts-Thriller, der einen nicht mehr loslässt. Es ist haarsträubend, wie detailliert beschrieben wird, was alles anders läuft und zu immer größeren Katastrophen führt. Man erwartet zwar, dass Don es noch schafft, diese Realität zu verlassen, aber es wird jedes Mal knapper. Nebenbei finden wir ein nicht unbeträchtliches Maß an Kritik an den Präsidenten und ihrem Charakter. Obama kommt als Einziger halbwegs gut dabei weg. Wenn das Buch ein paar Jahre später geschrieben worden wäre: Trump … Unvorstellbar, was für eine Apokalypse sich der Autor für den hätte ausdenken mögen.

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KittyResQ
Wow, just...wow!
Reviewed in the United States on 23 December 2019
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The 9/11 Machine

Like most people, I can tell you exactly where I was & what I was doing when the 9/11 attack began. At the time I was a Youth Ministry Director at a local church. I remember spending the entire day at the church to be there for anyone who needed assistance. We didn't lock the doors until after midnight. I remember all of the congregants that came in, as well as all the random people trying to make sense of a horrific situation that none of us could wrap our minds around.

Reading The 9/11 Machine transported me back to that day. I was incredibly impressed with the depth of research that went into writing this book. Personally I don't subscribe to the belief of multiple dimensions running parallel. But I know many people that do. But that part of the book was a bit hard for me to digest, although it worked well in this plot.

I just loved how the author touched on so many of the known conspiracy theories surrounding that day. I also liked how he had the hero, Don, try different methods to try and solve the problem of the attacks still taking place despite trying to prevent the entire thing from happening. 9/11 really could have been so much worse than it was. It was horrible enough as it was, and I can't even begin to imagine how our country would've faired if our leaders hadn't reacted as quickly as they did.

Hindsight always helps us see other options we could have had. And it's human nature to have to blame someone. Sadly, too many of our government leaders ended up taking the blame, not so much for the actual attack, but because people felt like they should've known a head of time. Or because they should have done more to keep our country safer in the first place. Even when we all know the only ones to blame were the terrorists that did the evil deed.

I enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend it to everyone.

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mickel
Sehr kurzweilige Unterhaltung mit einem furchtbaren, weil realem Verbrechen!
Reviewed in Germany on 24 September 2018
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Klingt merkwürdig, aber es geht. Für alle, die an Geschichten mit Zeitreisen (+ Teleportation) und alternate history Gefallen finden: hier ist eine ziemlich abgefahrene Geschichte.
Der Hauptdarsteller versucht mit Hilfe einer Zeitmaschine 9/11 zu verhindern. Es ist ein alternate history-9/11, aber nach der ansonsten offiziellen Version. Mehr will ich nicht verraten. Natürlich keine große Literatur, aber dafür ein 'wilder Ritt'. Der in Rezensionen oft benutzte Satz 'kam nicht vom Lesen weg' o.Ä., war hier tatsächlich auch bei mir der Fall.
Der Autor nimmt sich am Ende auch der sog. Verschwörungstheorien an (nicht sehr tief gehend), aber hier jetzt noch eine Diskussion über ein nach wie vor nicht vollständig aufgeklärtes Verbrechen zu führen, halte ich jetzt an dieser Stelle für nicht passend.

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Entertaining time travel novel about 9/11
Reviewed in the United States on 15 February 2015
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Enormously fun time travel novel about a physicist's numerous attempts to prevent the terrorist attacks on 9/11. I recommend it for its entertainment value, but I have a few reservations about its politics and its distorted views on history.

There are many things that Enslen does extremely well in this book:
- The time travel (and later teleportation) machine is described with more detail than most other time travel stories.
- The knowledge of 9/11 details is apparent. Enslen did his research.
- The pacing is swift. The book is a quick read.
- The scenes of disaster and destruction in alternative 9/11 timelines are vividly imagined.
- Scenes involving real people (George W. Bush, Andrew Card, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, etc.) are playfully done.

I enjoyed the book immensely, but wish it were better, more thoughtful. Although Enslen touches upon some of the 9/11 conspiracy theories, none of his alternate timeless explore them or attempt to explain them. In that sense, the book passes on an obvious opportunity to explain some oddities about 9/11 that have yet to be explained. Not sure why Enslen chose to ignore that.

Despite my enjoyment of the book, I was troubled by Enslen's portrayal of historic events. For instance, he never mentions that Iraq did NOT have WMDs and was NOT connected with al Qaeda. Despite this, in Enslin's alternate timelines the U.S. still invades Iraq, a war crime that resulted in 200,000 Iraqi deaths. Even though this book was published ten years after 9/11, Enslen seems to be unaware that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

I also had a problem with how the book portrays some real people, particularly Al Gore and George W. Bush. Strangely, in his alternate timelines Enslen portrays George W. Bush as a decisive hero, whereas Al Gore comes off as a reckless idiot. Sorry, that rings totally false to me. However, Dick Cheney's character is a warmongering nut, which is spot on.

I may seem too critical of the book. All time travel books that risk altering recent historic events result in some controversy. Another time travel book, Stephen King's 11/22/63, had the same problem. But King's and Enslin's books are both tremendous fun. To Enslin's credit, The 9/11 Machine is the better book of the two.

The 9/11 Machine is like a thrilling amusement park ride. Ignore the politics, ignore the mangling of history, and ignore the fact that time travel and teleportation are far more important than 9/11. Just enjoy the ride.

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