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Black Balloon

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Parts 33
Time 10h 6m

Reads 58
Votes 6
Parts 33
Time 10h 6m

coldwar science sciencefiction timetravel

A chance encounter with an abandoned military facility plunges Miles Vandergriff down a rabbit hole five-decades deep, forever altering his life and his understanding of reality. 
After inadvertently landing 56 years in the past-much to the chagrin and befuddlement of a few cold-war era scientists-the 23-year-old finds himself on a collision-course with some mysterious destiny, a journey that creates far more questions than answers: Who is Hermann Auerbach? What is going to happen on July 5th, 1958 in Whitefish, Montana? And what, if anything, does it have to do with him?All Rights Reserved

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