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Isaac Stage

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Connie Willis, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and many others. ...more

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Since age fourteen, I’ve always had a story, book, or novel being tapped out on a keyboard, but life was always obstructive to my attempts to publish a book. I studied hard in the sciences and sort of let go of the wilds of fiction, until one day when I started thinking seriously about time travel.

Time travel is very tricky business, and once you start thinking about it, well, it does not let you go easily. It is one of the big mysteries left in science, and touches upon the notions of unimaginable freedom; freedom to go back and re-live your life. Kiss that lover that you never did. Say something meaningful the last time you saw someone before they died. Redirect yourself so you don’t make the same mistakes, or reassure yourself that you a ...more

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NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and this year it is the first time that I’m attempting the challenge of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. I’ve been able to clock up to 13,000 words in the last 11 days, so I’m on my way. But for the inspiring writer, the major challenge is not the completion of a jumble of words, but to assemble the words into a meaningful flow of literature— some

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Chronologica

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