While working at CHRY Radio, I had the chance to interview Sean David Morton about his incredible novel Sands of Time. I’ve pulled these out of my archives and am reposting them here. My review of his novel was published in American Free Press. The book review is below.
Sands of Time Interview on CHRY Radio
My Book Review for Sands of Time
UFO disclosure books are typically boring to the casually interested lei person who wants the thirty thousand foot view of what the government has been hiding for the past 80 years. These are the books your foil-hatted, slightly twitchy distant cousin reads and argues about at Thanksgiving dinner.
Sands of Time IS NOT one of these books. This epic series from Sean David Morton brilliantly wraps the true facts of UFO disclosure into vivid, quasi-fictional novels written for the everyday reader.
Morton was an acclaimed screen writer and TV producer with groundbreaking stories on international shows like Hard Copy and Unsolved Mysteries. Concurrent to his TV career, Sean made a name for himself as one of America’s most prescient intuitives and most popular guests on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell in the 1990s after discovering a desert hilltop that overlooked the secret Area 51 base in the Nevada desert
Sean accurately predicted major earthquakes and political headlines months in advance—both on the air and in print through his Delphi associates Newsletter—a full colour prophecy magazine with 14,000 readers at its peak. This pedigree attracted thousands to his lectures across America including a fedora-wearing mystery man who inconspicuously hung out and pointed Sean towards researching various shadow government, ET and UFO topics.
In 2009, this mystery man bequeathed a stack of journals to Sean via a spooky law firm after he had “moved on” (their words). The handwritten journals were the real deal, revealing this unassuming man to be the head of a nameless, supra-governmental, unaffiliated global organization whose sole mission was to protect the Earth from real extra-terrestrial threats using advanced technology and nearly limitless resources.
Morton created his magnum opus as a
novelized story of this man’s life while mixing in the true history of events that have cemented themselves into the fabric of American UFO culture—all with hard science for the skeptic.
Physicist Dr. Theodore Humphrey, the series’ protagonist, tells the story from his perspective in Books 1 and 2 after his reclusive scientist father disappears into the Barstow desert before he heads to USC and Cal Tech and is then pulled into the shadowy underworld of advanced physics, time research and covert programs over the next 40 years. Ted weaves in details about the Philadelphia Experiment, the Roswell crash, the Montauk Project, Area 51, the Dulce Mesa and Die Glock or the Nazi Bell—all without boring the reader.
Morton shifts to third person perspective for the Time Runner books where he moves beyond pop-disclosure material to the hidden history of the ET-imposed Isolation memorandum, the secrets behind true teleportation through both time and space and the race against the calendar to prepare Earth for a coming invasion in this decade. Books 1, 2 and 3 are made more exciting with the spectre of time-traveling Nazi scientists intent on thwarting Dr. Humphrey’s plans.
Like a great film director, Morton pulls us into the user-friendly narrative right away and never lets go—no doubt the result of his experience as a skilled screenwriter. The lei reader will enjoy casting a miniseries in their head with rich, nuanced descriptions of settings and characters. Sean gets the little details just right without stooping to the pedantry of Dan Brown. The plot is well-paced with the right mix of action, drama and exposition. Characters, including the villains, are believable, real and complex without resorting to comic book cliche or kitsch. Ted Humphrey and those who work alongside him love, lust, fear, blunder and emote like real human beings with 20th century day jobs. Convincing, varied, light and often humorous dialog keeps the reader interested and engaged throughout.
The shocking takeaway is not the revelation humans are working feverishly to stop an alien invasion, the discovery of time travel, Einstein’s grand unified theory or the reverse-engineered alien tech. The truly amazing revelation is that real men and women are engaged in these endeavours as part of their everyday mundane lives in a breakaway society that has been hidden in plain sight for nearly eight decades. This is the story Sean’s shadowy fedora-wearing informant wanted him to tell the world.
The crux of the journals can be summed up in one line from Admiral Jacobs—a character from book 1 who lectures Ted before assigning him to dig a crucial equation out of an aging third reich Nazi scientist hidden on a North Atlantic island. “We are not monsters, we are flesh and blood humans fighting for all humanity. If we lose the essence of what we are along the way, then what is the point?”
While the UFO conspiracy fanatic will enjoy these books for the detailed history of government cover-ups, it is the perfect gateway series for the casual adventure-seeking reader who wants a reality-based novel to sweep them away and who is willing to consider the possibility that not everything is at it seems.
You can read the Sands of Time series by getting it on Amazon or through the Strange Universe Radio website. As Sean says, “It’s a strange universe and we just work here!”
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