ABOUT THE BOOK

With space exploration programs at a near standstill, the United States decides to reignite its program by sending an entire nuclear family into space under the guise that the family will spend months living on the International Space Station. In reality, the US plans to send the family to a secret facility on the moon where they will be placed into a state of hibernation for three months and have information and training fed directly to their brains. If successful, the family’s mission would pave the way for the future of space exploration, travel, and even habitation.

The MacMurchaid family, which consists of father Robert, mother Denise, and children Tony, Troy, Kris, and Nicole, is suddenly thrust into the spotlight when they are chosen for the mission of being the first family sent into space. Their training and their trip into space—as detailed in this book and supplemented with real-life historical space program tidbits—go smoothly. But soon after the family members are placed into hibernation on the moon, war breaks out on Earth, and the family is abandoned and presumed dead. The MacMurchaids awake over 455 years later, facing a new world and new challenges. Will the knowledge and training they were fed during hibernation allow them to overcome these challenges? Read and find out.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROBERT E. MURCHISON was born and mostly raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Growing up, his parents and grandparents taught him to appreciate family and history, which are themes that play out in his writing. The main characters in Robert’s novel A Family of Time: A Space Exploration Science Fiction Novel are based on his four children and his late wife, who encouraged him to write the book. He and his children are registered members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. And Robert is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as a launch crew member for the Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. His other pursuits have included being a substitute teacher, a cub master, a scoutmaster, and a historian and honor guard member for Carnie Welch American Legion Post 27.