Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant
In this Scribl Podiobook: WHEN TIME mysteriously stops, young Max Quick must travel across America to find the source of this 'temporal disaster'... Along the way, he and his companions encounter ancient mysteries, quantum Books, and clues to the riddle of stopped Time. But the more Max learns, the more it seems that his own true identity is not what he once believed... "driven -- and driven well -- by good old-fashioned sci-fi storytelling." - Kirkus Reviews ForeWord Magazine 'Book of the Year' Finalist 2005
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June 1, 2005 • 79 mins
-In this episode: A sci-fi adventure steeped in the lore of an ancient civilization that will appeal to children and adults alike.Max Quick's life drastically changes after time suddenly stops. The young man of 12 -- harassed by bullies, living as an orphan in a viol
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June 2, 2005 • 22 mins
-In this episode: Max and Casey leave Starland, CA and travel eastward along a desert highway, towards the eclipse. They encounter a town inhabited by a tribe of wild kids - also mysteriously immune to the time-freezing effects of the Pocket - who force Max and Casey
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June 3, 2005 • 46 mins
-In this episode: Max and Casey have been captured by a wild kid-gang calling itself the 'Serpents and Mermaids'. After a mock trial, they learn that for 'the Serps' an entire year has gone by in the time-stop of the Pocket. When they are later imprisoned, Ian Keat
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June 4, 2005 • 31 mins
-In this episode: Max, Casey and Ian use the strange, eldritch Books to escape the Serps, but almost immediately Ian is trapped inside their simulacra reality. Therein, the brainy Brit is pursued by a pack of wild wolves, while Max and Casey can only observe by turn
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June 5, 2005 • 40 mins
-In this episode: Max, Casey and Ian encounter a strange farmhouse in Texas that Max dimly remembers in the fog of his amnesia. While they are exploring it, Max inadvertantly trips some esoteric defense mechanism -- which summons a surprise visit from the UFO's Ian h
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June 6, 2005 • 63 mins
-In this episode: In this pivotal hour-long episode, Max, Ian and Casey make their way to New York. After agonizing over the contents of the farmhouse diary, they discover a time-frozen Big Apple infested with Sky Chambers. Ian is right again: it is from here that t
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June 7, 2005 • 54 mins
-In this episode: The Serpents and Mermaids are enslaved. New York is overrun with Jadeth and her Sky Chambers. And Max, Casey and Ian are captured by Johnny Siren. As if things weren't hopeless enough, Siren attempts to break into Max's hidden memories using a g
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June 8, 2005 • 61 mins
-In this episode: Escaping via the Book from Johnny Siren's Sky Chamber, the quartet make their way to the legendary Mr. 'E'. There, on his eldritch Isle -- 'an enfoldment of the Dreamtime nearer the true core of reality' -- the mysterious being reveals his origins f
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June 9, 2005 • 55 mins
-In this episode: The enigmatic Mr. E -- Enki -- an ancient Sumerian 'god' who is actually an alien -- reveals a detailed account of the history of his kind on earth, and their interactions with several ancient civilizations. The origin of the Pendant is revealed, as
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June 10, 2005 • 46 mins
-In this episode: After a much-deserved rest, Mr. E gives the foursome several gifts, including the location of the Pendant. But, before Enki can complete his instructions, his Isle is attacked by the mysterious Archons. Enki goes down in a torrent; the magicians d
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June 11, 2005 • 54 mins
-In this episode: Stealing Siren's Sky Chamber, the foursome make their way to the black tarn of Loch Sheil in northern Scotland. There, under its depths, they find a secret cavern containing the Pyramid of the Arches, a grand central station of portals to different
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June 12, 2005 • 51 mins
-In this episode: Siren has followed the foursome to the Pyramid of the Arches, and holds a dagger at Casey's throat. Max holds the Pendant, but the tyranny of the page shows events conspire to inevitably lead him to hand it to Jadeth - of his own free will. Is he a
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June 13, 2005 • 29 mins
-In this episode: Mr. E. explains a few things to the foursome, and things are returned to normal, thanks to some help arriving from Nibiru itself. Questions are answered, and few new ones emerge. The Pocket is no more, and the foursome, the Serps and the rest of th
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