During the warm and sleepy mid-summer’s days of 2010, I had a few gossamer ideas for a new science fiction tale floating around in my head.

I now suspect that these bits and pieces came to me at that particular time mainly as an intriguing distraction to draw my attention away from the more pressing and daunting task of beginning my third novel, the soft science fiction piece entitled Xea In The Library.

Xea is the sequel to my first work, the post-apocalyptic mystery called Floyd 5.136.

In one of those wonderful little moments of inspiration that led to much larger things, an irresistible title came to me while taking a long, hot shower: The Ripple In Space-Time.

I’d been considering the intriguing notion of ‘Space-Time,’ Albert Einstein’s speculation that space and time are inextricability linked together as the four dimension, after enjoying Isaac Asimov’s nonfiction work Atom: A Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos, CalTech’s fantastic Mechanical Universe video lectures and Carl Sagan’s seminal series Cosmos.

The title fused together with a first chapter during a burst of nervous energy on the afternoon of August 12th.

For months I had been playing around with the idea of alternating viewpoints in a novel and I decided to write chapter 1 in the dry, formal style of a newspaper obituary. Where the novel would go from there, I had no idea at the time.

With Xea In The Library looming, I set The Ripple aside.

Almost exactly 6 months later, I returned to The Ripple In Space-Time.

Of all of my seven novels to date, I had the most fun writing this sometimes brutal, sometimes poignant and often quite tongue-in-check tale.

The Ripple in Space-Time will be available worldwide in paperback and as a Kindle e-Book on February 1st 2013.

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