Broken: Bronze Age Time Travel : Micah Dubinko : 9781970131000 : 1970131004 : 24 May 2016 : What happens when a geeky engineer gets trapped in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur? When Shiloh, a senior engineer at Silicon Valley's hottest company, gets frustrated with the gadget lifestyle, he retreats to a low-tech pastoral life. But when thrown 4,000 years back to the bronze age, his only choice is to re-invent technology and save the future. If you liked Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, or time travel classics like L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall, join the adventure and read this exciting debut novel from Micah Joel. Interview with the Author Q - Where did the idea for this book come from? A - Believe it or not, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash sparked the initial idea for this book. One of the side topics in Neal's book was the "me" or Sumerian rules that defined the basis of their culture. What would it look like if these were physical objects taken