Thursday Next Series

Time Machine

The Mystery of Time Travel

By Deborah Lacy

January 18, 2012

Seriously. Scientists at Cornell University have created a real hole in time, a temporal cloak of sorts, just like the invisibility cloak in Harry Potter. It’s a place where objects are invisible and events are un-recorded. Sure, no humans went in the hole and it only lasted 50 trillionths of a second, which isn’t long…

The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry

When Is a Mystery Too Fantastic?

By Cindy Harkness

May 22, 2011

Recently, I overheard two women in the mystery section in a bookstore: “Oh my gawd, I can’t believe it, they have this in the mysteries! It has spells and magic and everything!!!” “Oh gawd, that’s so stupid!!!” I moved away before my inner librarian erupted to explain to the shocked duo that the books had…