This is Book Three of the Temporal Exploring 101 series chronicling the adventures of Cathy, Natty and their friends at St. Albert's Boarding School for Girls and elsewhere.

If you have not read Book One, First Transit, and Book Two, Cultural Immersion, already it is strongly recommended that you do so before starting to read Future Legend.

There will be altogether at least four Temporal Exploring 101 books. I imagine that a reader might be able to enjoy reading them out of sequence, but it would be preferable to read them in order. If nothing else, in order to avoid spoilers.

Temporal Exploring 101 is a boarding school story with time travel elements, something I had been planning to write for years.

As a kid I devoured Enid Blyton's books — all of them, but particularly her Malory Towers boarding school stories. In the German translation, mind you, with the main character's first name Darrell changed to Dolly, if you can believe that. In my teens I was fascinated by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and I sometimes daydreamed about attending a traditional English boarding school.

The concept and possible ramifications of time travel have always intrigued me. I must have read countless sci-fi novels dealing with that topic. To name just a few, I might list Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity, Robert Heinlein's The Door into Summer and Gregory Benford's Timescape.

As I said, Temporal Exploring 101 is a boarding school story with time travel elements. But if you asked me what the story really is about, I would have to say that it is a story about friendship.

I hope you are going to enjoy reading it.

August 21, 2019

Caitlin Tureaud