Time Lords I:
A Hidden Blade

Jorgen is one of the few people who know how to transcend time. Busy looking for his lost girlfriend Maive, mixing antidepressants with alcohol and dealing with advancing insanity, he accepts an anonymous contract that will have a fatal impact on his destiny. It's all about last chances. Albert Everett has one last chance to launch a guerrilla war and tailor the future of the world to his own ends. Task Force Aion has one last chance to solidify its previous victories and ensure the natural course of history. Major Kanedy sees no chance as the last, and is determined to sacrifice everything. The war is quietly gaining momentum, the battlefield spans all eras across time, and humanity is by no means its only casualty. The eyes of the cyborgs under the medieval sun are anything but human... and the casualties - those are just a statistic...

Reader reviews

"Great book, withstands the strictest comparison to the world's best science fiction novels."

"A concert of space and time. A story pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle, the interconnection of storylines is fantastic! One thing I miss though - a sequel."

"This excellent spacetime race is action-packed from start to finish. For me it is one of the best contemporary Czech science fiction."

"I would highly recommend reading it to anyone who enjoys a complex book that will make them think, offer a few fundamental ideas, or occasionally leave them in the dark of their own thoughts and imagination."

Author's comment

The Time Lords was born out of a desire for a compley storyline work, not just a straightforward journey from point A to point B, which has been the case with all the previous books. It was a necessary deviation from the beaten track, which brought the opportunity to write something much more engaging and fresh. The essence of Time Lords takes place among the complicated relationships of the characters involved, in the web of their purely subjective (and often mistaken) opinions, prejudices and expectations. The story, with elements of ancient tragedy, is set within a fluid landscape of time jumps and the resulting paradoxes, a literal family guerrilla war with a certain existential-philosophical overlay. Readers will rarely find heroes here, positive or negative. Rather, they will find ordinary people capable of extreme acts, the consequences of which are hard to escape. Some of them ask questions about those acts, others do not. And sometimes asking questions is the only way to distinguish between right and wrong.