Time Calling

by Martin Clark

A junior intelligence agent in the British government is assigned to provide security for four young Asian women in the remote countryside while they attempt a unique and strange task – developing a language from pure numbers. None can imagine the world-changing consequences of their work, the danger it will place them in, and the critical decisions about loyalty and love it will force them to make…
Time Calling is "hard" science fiction. Using the latest science, it explores the human language-creation phenomenon and how it must some day face the ultimate communication challenge. True "cognitive-science" fiction!

319 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2014

About the author

Martin Clark was a British historian noted for his work on modern Italy. After obtaining his degree at Cambridge, Clark gained his PhD at Birkbeck College. In 1965 he was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He remained there at the politics department until his retirement in 2001.

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was well on the way to getting a five star at the half way point. Then...

We then have 25% of the book loosely linked to the first half but so divorced from the story line I thought I had missed something major, spy thriller secret research project to crime syndicate scams. Then the last 25% is a supposed copy of a received sci-fi book that may have been written/published by one of the characters in the first half.

Genre categorisation, and hence shelves, then gets messy just like the book overall. This is a great shame because I quite liked most of all three stories if only any one of them was complete. Perhaps my copy was corrupted in some way. Who knows? I did want to find out what happened in the end but because of the combined stories I did not.