Max Einstein 3
Max Einstein Saves the Future
by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
The prologue to the third Max Einstein book tells us that twelve-year-old genius
do-gooder Max traveled as a baby from 1921 to the early 21st century when an experiment
in her genius parents’ basement went a little ca-ca. Later on, Einstein himself makes a
cameo appearance, possibly by opening some kind of communication line from the past to
Max in her moment of need, but nothing else crops up in the way of time travel. I suspect
that a truly genius rebel child would toss this aside as being condescending, preachy,
one-dimensional, and melodramatic (not in a good way), as well as innacurate in most of
its science and guilty of oversimplifying complex world problems.
— Michael Main
Plus, if you shut down the time machine and never came into the future, you would never
do all the great things you have already done in your life. We wouldn’t be standing her
right now if you went back in time and convinced your parents to dismantle the project.
Max Einstein Saves the Future by James Patterson and
Chris Grabenstein (Jimmy Patterson, August
2020).