Max Einstein Saves the Future
- by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Children
- Cameo Time Travel
- English
- Max Einstein Saves the Future by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein (Jimmy Patterson, August 2020).
The prologue to the third Max Einstein book tells us that twelve-year-old genius do-gooder Max traveled as a baby from 1921 to the early 21st century when an experiment in her genius parents’ basement went a little ca-ca. Later on, Einstein himself makes a cameo appearance, possibly by opening some kind of communication line from the past to Max in her moment of need, but nothing else crops up in the way of time travel. I suspect that a truly genius rebel child would toss this aside as being condescending, preachy, one-dimensional, and melodramatic (not in a good way), as well as innacurate in most of its science and guilty of oversimplifying complex world problems.
—Michael Main
Plus, if you shut down the time machine and never came into the future, you would never do all the great things you have already done in your life. We wouldn’t be standing her right now if you went back in time and convinced your parents to dismantle the project.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: 1921 Princeton
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Max in the 21st century
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Rifts: Max’s initial travel, occurring with “a flash of blindingly bright light,” felt like an accidentally created time rift among the “strange collection of electronic contraptions and lab equipment set up in the basement . . .” But who knows? It could have been some kind of time dilation, slowing time for baby Max, since that is alluded to in later text (though not connected to the initial time travel).
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods: Albert Einstein’s communication is unexplained.
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- Max Einstein Saves the Future by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein (Jimmy Patterson, August 2020).
- audio reading.
Max Einstein Saves the Future by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein (Jimmy Patterson, August 2020).