Sinkronisity: Amusing travels through time, space and genre.

by Stephen Faulds

A satirical science fiction fantasy about time travel and destiny. Old Rang lives in a cave on the edge of a time warp. His visitors include the Nottle villagers who believe he makes the sun rise every morning and a time traveller called Vince Yaga who is the least superstitious man in the universe. Vince Yaga discovers Ruce Lemming, a character from an unfinished epic fantasy novel by Seferin Fane. Ruce is being stalked by a mutant lawnmower named Victor. After a variety of erroneous misadventures which involve an array of characters including Buggeroni, an inventor from Florence; his wife Florrida; Belinda Nort, an out of work actress; an old Fakir and Rod Singlet, a Nostralian Itinerant, Seferin is helped to finish his novel so that Ruce and everyone in the immediate vicinity, including the lawnmower can fulfil their respective destinies.

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 21, 2012

About the author

Stephen Faulds is an English teacher with many years experience teaching both English and Drama. He has self-published fourteen novels and one non-fiction title as ebooks. He has written many short scripts, which have been performed by students at both primary and secondary level. His play 'Seatown' was performed at The Blue Room theatre in 2007 and has been published by The Australian Script Centre. He has a web site featuring his writing, photography and artwork, which is archived at the State Library of WA.

Reviews

[Gregor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very funny . Possibly Closest to Douglas Adams world I could find.

This story is fully of witty one liners and funny lines that will make you laugh out loud. You can read the synopsis elsewhere .. the characters are really great to follow. Now the drawback : it’s too long for the type of satire comedy nonsense.. it’s like reading 2 Douglas Adams books in a row without any in between ending or watching 120 minutes of South Park.. sorry but comedy needs to be shorter and the story needed to be in two volumes .. I would like the author to carry on writing but keep the books to 200 or 250 pages .. to any readers I recommend reading half way try and put it down for a good 2 months and carry on. Don’t worry the story comes together in the end nicely .. halfway through there seem to be way too many loose end in one book of this genre.. through time travel in it you start wondering which is the main story you should focus on.. .its nice that the author does manage to put it all together in the last third of the book.