Elevator People: A Time Travel Novel
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“Original! Funny! Surprising! A wake-up call for a world that has gone astray.” – Cynthia Shortreed, editor
“An imaginative sci-fi masterpiece with unexpected twists and turns. It forces you to rethink your values. You’ll never look at life, compassion, or the planet in the same way again.” – Sue Jones, Hollywood TV Report
“What do Charles Manson, the Killer Clown, and Hitler have in common? They all make an appearance in Elevator People. Have they come back to life? Or what? I’m not telling. You’ll have to read this well-crafted, edge-of-your-seat thriller to find out.” – Pamelyn Ferdin, actress
"Charlotte Laws… fulfills Elevator People’s promise of intrigue and deadpan comedy. The main characters are a terrifically mixed bag of personality traits, which makes for richly entertaining reading. Elevator People is a high-spirited time-travel adventure… with sharp dialogue and a winning cast of contrasting characters." – Kirkus Reviews
“Elevator People is a true original with wondrous world-building, featuring odd aliens, Cruelty Quotient scores, cameos by Hitler and Charles Manson, and the Charity Eight doing the absolute best they can.” - Publisher’s Weekly (BookLife Prize)
Eight people leave a charity gala in 2025. They step off a hotel elevator and find themselves in a different century. This is not an ordinary world. They see atrocities—hideous and hellish things found only in nightmares. The place is a horror show. Their values and beliefs are put to the test. Victims beg for help, and they become underground operatives. They are hunted by the authorities and the cultlike masses who call them terrorists. They are a threat to their customs, a risk to their bloodthirsty ways.
They eventually learn that thousands of elevator people around the world have time traveled as a part of the Earthling Extermination Project. Earth is causing catastrophic weather events for other planets, and elevator people are tasked with softening the blow before annihilation day—that is, if they agree to accept the mission. Will they save the planet? Will they ever get home? What will be their fate?
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About the author
Charlotte Laws is an award-winning and bestselling writer. She has authored seven books, contributed to four academic anthologies, and written 135 articles that have appeared in various publications, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Salon, Huffington Post, and the New York Daily News.
Laws has a Ph.D. in Social Ethics from the University of Southern California, two master’s degrees, and two BA degrees. She completed her postdoctoral study at Oxford University, England.
Laws was a Greater Valley Glen Councilmember for eight years and currently stars in the Netflix series The Most Hated Man on the Internet. She worked as a pundit on BBC television and the NBC show The Filter. She has appeared on CNN, The Late Show, Fox News, Oprah, Larry King Live, MSNBC, and Nightline, and has been featured in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Guardian.
She is a recipient of the Los Angeles Animal Humanitarian Award and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, her two rescue dogs, and her five rescue hens.
“Dr. Laws is a champion of the underdog.” New York Post
“Charlotte Laws is a tenacious bulldog when she latches onto something.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Laws has been hailed as a ‘hero,’ a ‘force to be reckoned with,’ and a ‘f—ing gangster.’” The Telegraph, UK
“Laws sweet-talked her way into well-heeled functions because she wanted facetime with the movers and shakers of the world, telling them about whatever cause she was fighting for that day—civil rights, LGBT rights, or animal rights.” The Daily Beast
“Charlotte has the mind of a CIA operative. She can make a missile out of sticks.” Bruce Goldberg, bestselling author.
