Microwaves and Monoliths

Richard and his neighbor, professional chef Lyra Chen, are pulled through a violent vortex of purple light and thrown into a world far beyond their own time. Stranded in an unfamiliar landscape, they must combine Richard's technical instincts with Lyra's practical culinary skills to survive.

Their journey leads them from a strange settlement and ancient machinery to a buried continental transit system, where forgotten technology, dangerous power structures, and a train called the Iron Weaver offer a possible route home. Along the way, Richard and Lyra discover that the anomaly was not entirely random—and that the future they have entered may be connected to their own world in ways neither of them expected.

MICROWAVES AND MONOLITHS is a science-fiction adventure with time displacement, lost technology, survival, friendship, humor, and the unlikely partnership of an engineer and a chef.