Bridge Head

There's a secret in the basement of the engineering building. Three travelers, claiming to be from a utopia six thousand years hence, are helping Dr. Gustafson and his graduate staff invent a time transport. Their stated goal: to stop war and secure a peaceful future. Overloaded and overtaxed, the transport experiments start to go wrong. Dreadfully wrong. What the professors don't know is that the Travelers have their own plans for the machine. And their own secrets…. The future isn't peaceful. The past is not the past. And the machine in the engineering building has everything to do with an unimaginable war. First we have a college, which is kind of appropriate seeing as how much trouble and problems are usually generated from those "higher centers of education. Research is being accomplished on time travel and assistance is being rendered by humans from the far distant future. but what if those humans and our far distant future - as well as our past - aren't as advertised? How about some chlorine breathing bugs with an advanced (also) technology who are fighting with our (time) travelers? Then, for dessert, consider if everything goes according to plans by the bugs and travelers, our Earth is a disposable chip from either sides point of view? A very interesting book by David Drake.