John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Review: The Madison

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In The Madison , the latest series from producer Taylor Sheridan , two things are on display: grief and Madison County , Montana. Grief u...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Review: The Wild Blue

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For most of my life, I have considered George McGovern a historical footnote — the liberal senator who lost 49 states to Richard Nixon in ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Confessions of a collector

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Sometime in 1973, when I was 11, my grandfather, Andy Hoeme , gave me an 1883 Liberty Head nickel. Enamored by the "ancient" coin...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

A nod to Valentine's Day

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In the minds of many, time travel and romance go hand in hand. They are like the peanut butter and jelly of literature and cinema. Diana G...
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Stone Shed series

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As readers know, I like to recycle themes, props, and characters. I do so for the reason some people choose the same vacation spot or ice cr...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Second Chance series

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In her September 2022 review of The Fountain , reader Lara Girdler asked the central question of the Second Chance series: "Imagine...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Time Box series

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In 1895, H.G. Wells produced the definitive work on time travel. Entitled The Time Machine , it featured a device that propelled a scientis...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Carson Chronicles series

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In the American Journey series, I told five time-travel tales from the perspective of five twenty-first-century families. In the Carson Chr...
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John A. Heldt
John A. Heldt is the author of twenty-six bestselling time-travel novels. The former reference librarian and award-winning sportswriter has loved getting subjects and verbs to agree since writing book reports in grade school. A graduate of the University of Oregon and the University of Iowa, Heldt is an avid fisherman, sports fan, coin collector, and reader of thrillers and historical fiction. When not sending contemporary characters to the not-so-distant past, he weighs in on literature and life at johnheldt.blogspot.com.
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