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Bruce Macfarlane

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The Time Travel Diaries –Recommended Reading Order:

Out of Time
A Drift Out of Time
A House Out of Time
The Space Between Time
The Time Palace of Mars
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Bruce Macfarlane is the author of the humorous and sometimes romantic Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart, a scientist, living in the 21st century and Elizabeth Bicester, a Victorian Cambridge graduate whom he accidently met at a cricket match in 1873.

He spent most of his working life in radiation protection and emergency planing with the nuclear industry, and is now enjoying retirement with his wife, Julia, and their cockapoo, Lulu, on the south coast of West Sussex, just a few minutes’ walk from the sea.

A life of writing scientific reports and reading early science fiction, especia
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Bruce Macfarlane Get a notebook or a Tablet and keep it with you and start writing. If you have a plot, good. If not, don't worry. Imagine who the main characters are …moreGet a notebook or a Tablet and keep it with you and start writing. If you have a plot, good. If not, don't worry. Imagine who the main characters are and start thinking like them until they become like 'friends' in your head. Create and write down scenes involving them. Use experiences from your own life and embellish them. Put in conversations between your characters. This will help develop their personalities so that when a plot forms you have them ready to use.(less)
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Out of Time

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The Space Between Time

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Three Tales Out of Time

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Elizabeth Bicester on Love, Time Travel, and Holding On

The Seas of Mars, From The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth BicesterTweetAn Article by Elizabeth Bicester on The Time Travel Diaries.

I suppose the first thing one should make clear is this: I did not set out to become a time traveller. Nor did I intend to marry a gentleman who regards unfamiliar contrivances as personal challenges and who believes that any button labelled Play is placed there expressly for his moral testing. Yet Providence, time, and a butterfly o

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