The Baron

Cast in Time, Book 1

By: Ed Nelson

Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May

An engineer finds himself in an alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron.

Retired Lieutenant General, former head of the Army Corp of Engineers, lies dying at the age of ninety-two. Leading a full life, he is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.

His love of engineering has him taking university courses his entire life. When his health falters, and he can no longer continue his education, MIT awards him an honorary PhD in Professional Studenting.

After a long illness, he lies dying. His last thought is, "What a waste of such wonderful knowledge."

As he fades to black, the fun begins. He is to build a modern civilization without being burned as a witch!

©2023 E. E. Nelson (P)2024 Tantor

I love Daniel Thomas May’s performance

Daniel Thomas May is able to read dry facts, figures, and formulas in an engaging way. He was able to make listening to how hard iron and steel are made interest from the story. Enjoyed his Apocalypse redux audios and picked up this book which I’ve read because he was the main narrator. I will continue to get the baron cast in time series from Ed Nelson when I see if done continues to record them. Thanks for performing this book. I loved it.

the books pace.

I think these books are to short. they really need to make 2 book bundles to make it worth the credit. other than that I enjoyed the story and the authors ability to seamlessly keep the book moving. he could've expounded on topics to make these books longer and give them more flesh in my opinion. the only thing I didnt really enjoy was how fast he was able to introduce some technologies. from chemistry to engineering he didn't seem to have very many road blocks in his way.

Just what I was looking for.

I have been looking for a story like this and this definitely scratch that itch. The narration took me awhile to get used to since the MC sounds flat but later I realized that this was to differ him from the 8th century people. I love stories stories about using modern knowledge in the past.

If you enjoyed Destiny's Crucible or Long Time Until Now you will enjoy this. I can't wait to listen to the next one in the series!

great story with the feel of the 1632 ring of fire.

great story and now I can't wait for the next book to come out. this story felt like the 1632 ring of fire series.

The many different characters

I really liked the Connecticut Yankee Kings Arthur’s Court elements, but I didn’t really care for the in-depth technical explanations of technologies.

techno history thriller

Fantastic! Enjoyed this tremendously!
Need more like this. Appreciate the human element as well. Great job

volume is horrible

Fun story, it's the typical middle ages city builder with future technology knowledge.

That said I use audio books to fall asleep and this narrator has a good soothing voice. However he changes volume by a LOT when narrating some characters. the volume seems to go up and down at random.

Cast into the dark ages…

Good book, although a bit short on dialogue. Fun what if adventure about a modern combat engineer cast into distant past. A bit short.

engineer goes back in time

I love the what ifs a modern person was sent back with no powers. Fantastically done and believable. now I do not know if the mining was accurate for the areas but it is engaging. Definitely more on the crafting side than war but still engaging

Good but to expensive for 6h audio book.

A know it all engineer travel back in time to Britain after the Romans left. developing technology happens to easy. In reality even when a company tries to copy a competitors product it they make many mistakes and have to go true many prototypes before getting a good product.
A modern company have modern tools and can hold the product in hand.

I didn't see that the book was only 6h long I probably wouldn't have bought it if I knew.
the book is good bot not good enough for me to pay one credit for 6h.
If the author combined 2 or 3 books into one I would buy it.
Maybe I buy the rest of the books in kindel format when they are on sale, and use Text to speech.

In my opinion
If the author had a ok voice he could have read it himself to saved money since it is a unabridged audio book with one perspective and one voice.

In books with many perspectives and many conversations it is useful to have a voice artist that can make individual voices for each character and prospective.