An Ocean of Minutes

An Ocean of Minutes
by Thea Lim

A deadly flu pandemic is sweeping across the country when Polly's boyfriend Frank gets sick.  Time travel has been invented and there is a cure in the future.  Polly agrees to time travel 12 years into the future and work as a bonded laborer for a certain amount of time and in exchange Frank will be given the cure.  

Instead of Polly going 12 years into the future to 1993, she is rerouted to 1998.  Frank and Polly had a meetup spot, but that goes wrong.  Instead of 12 years, it has been 17 years and the world is quite different.  Polly can't get to the meetup spot as the United States has divided into two different countries, the United States in the north and America in the south.  During the flu pandemic, the country was divided as they tried to stop the flu from spreading.

After Polly time travels, she is alone in a strange new world.  She works to work off her bondage so she can go and find Frank.  She has a special work status so she gets treated better than some of the other workers.  You see a definite division in the way the immigrants are treated.  

This one was really good.  It was an imaginative new world that Polly time travels into.  It had that science fiction time travel, it even had romance as Polly is trying to get back to Frank.  It was just what I wanted, an imaginative story.  I hope the author is working on more books.