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The Space Between Thought
Simon Sykes’ virtual reality software company is exceeding expectations. He has money and power. He has Celeste; a beautiful, talented and devoted girlfriend. And, secretly, he has his pick of other women, on the side. He is in control, on top of the world, and relishing every moment.
But the sudden death of Celeste deals him a staggering blow.
To everyone except Simon, it looks like suicide. But he, alone, saw the ghostly figure, at the scene of the crime.
Plagued by grief and guilt, Simon vows to uncover the truth, at any cost.
While his business founders and friends grow concerned for his sanity, Simon stumbles upon a secret that promises the power to unravel the mystery and undo one life-altering moment — the power to save Celeste and restore his future: Time travel.
Meanwhile, Simon’s suspicious behavior has renewed police interest in the case.
With Chief Inspector Holloway closing in, Simon wrestles with time, space and reality to rescue the love of his life, unmask her true killer and remodel his world.
But the sudden death of Celeste deals him a staggering blow.
To everyone except Simon, it looks like suicide. But he, alone, saw the ghostly figure, at the scene of the crime.
Plagued by grief and guilt, Simon vows to uncover the truth, at any cost.
While his business founders and friends grow concerned for his sanity, Simon stumbles upon a secret that promises the power to unravel the mystery and undo one life-altering moment — the power to save Celeste and restore his future: Time travel.
Meanwhile, Simon’s suspicious behavior has renewed police interest in the case.
With Chief Inspector Holloway closing in, Simon wrestles with time, space and reality to rescue the love of his life, unmask her true killer and remodel his world.
248 pages, Paperback
First published December 17, 2014
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About the author
William M. Dean
7 books6 followersI had my first book "published" in grade 4.
Mrs. Holdridge assigned the whole class to illustrate it and she bound it with staples. It was widely distributed...to our parents.
That's when I decided I wanted to become a writer.
That's how influential a single teacher can be.
After that, I wrote many stories that I hope never see the light of day.
I was drawn to the cleverness and technical twists in science fiction (Ben Bova, Aldus Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke--those were the icons of my early years), but always felt they lacked realism.
Then I read The Stand, by Stephen King, and it shook my world. This was fiction that felt real to the core.
And that's what I then aspired to write.
My prose got all high-fallutin for a long while, and then I read Michael Connelly's Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series' and learned that heroes could be harsh and language was best when simple and straight forward.
Then came indie publishing.
And, here I am.
If you like realistically drawn worlds and characters, try one of my fiction books.
Mrs. Holdridge assigned the whole class to illustrate it and she bound it with staples. It was widely distributed...to our parents.
That's when I decided I wanted to become a writer.
That's how influential a single teacher can be.
After that, I wrote many stories that I hope never see the light of day.
I was drawn to the cleverness and technical twists in science fiction (Ben Bova, Aldus Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke--those were the icons of my early years), but always felt they lacked realism.
Then I read The Stand, by Stephen King, and it shook my world. This was fiction that felt real to the core.
And that's what I then aspired to write.
My prose got all high-fallutin for a long while, and then I read Michael Connelly's Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series' and learned that heroes could be harsh and language was best when simple and straight forward.
Then came indie publishing.
And, here I am.
If you like realistically drawn worlds and characters, try one of my fiction books.
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January 7, 2015
The Space between Thought is a must-read for those drawn to tales of time and the 'what-ifs' of our actions. Dean's debut submission kept my attention from start to finish, eliciting special notoriety in the avenues of deep character development and a vast arsenal of vocabulary and prose to sculpt riveting and secondary imagery in the story alike. The story starts off interesting enough as the reader gets to know the charming yet flawed protagonist and expect a virtual-reality type of unfolding. After a few chapters, a greater concept is revealed and the driving mystery does not derail until the end. Highly recommended.
September 3, 2019
Good read.
January 17, 2018
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July 11, 2017
What if, as other philosophers have speculated, all time exists at once, and it is only our perception that imposes a linear order upon it? If that is true, then maybe mind-altering (and thus perception-altering) drugs would allow us to change, even reverse, its flow.
Simon Sykes is a fortunate man. He owns a business he loves, has a girlfriend, Celeste, who loves him and completes him, and he also has a gift for attracting women into one-night stands and brief affairs. Everything is going very well for him, until his girlfriend commits suicide, and Simon's life falls apart.
Everyone around Simon accepts the death as suicide, even though Celeste left no note. But Simon arrived home just after Celeste's death and saw a ghostly figure near the window, so he isn't buying suicide. He thinks he knows who killed his girlfriend, but can't tell the police because that would reveal his own cowardice.
With Celeste dead, things really begin to spin out of control for him. By chance, he discovers that, in a certain frame of mind, he can slow time to a crawl. Nothing else slows down, though. Simon almost suffocates in the space of a few minutes because he can't get enough air into his lungs. If he can slow the flow of time, could he reverse it and go back to change his actions that led to the disastrous night of Celeste's suicide?
The author has made a bold choice to open the novel with the pre-climactic scene depicted on the cover: a cocktail of drugs, some poison, is infused into tea which Simon drinks before he realizes its contents. Despite this information, and all the other foreshadowing action in the novel, the first climax comes as a surprise, and the final twist is totally unanticipated.
I almost set the book aside at first, because Simon at the beginning is a total fool. He has so much to envy, and values none of it highly. Celeste's death seems almost a punishment for his indifference. Then I was drawn into his struggle to make things right, despite his pathetic focus on incidentals such as which person he had been unfaithful to Celeste with.
In the end, I was glad I had not given up on Simon or his struggle. Because in this concept of the passage of time, all ends are possible. A happy ending is not only possible, but inevitable, where we can amend time.
Simon Sykes is a fortunate man. He owns a business he loves, has a girlfriend, Celeste, who loves him and completes him, and he also has a gift for attracting women into one-night stands and brief affairs. Everything is going very well for him, until his girlfriend commits suicide, and Simon's life falls apart.
Everyone around Simon accepts the death as suicide, even though Celeste left no note. But Simon arrived home just after Celeste's death and saw a ghostly figure near the window, so he isn't buying suicide. He thinks he knows who killed his girlfriend, but can't tell the police because that would reveal his own cowardice.
With Celeste dead, things really begin to spin out of control for him. By chance, he discovers that, in a certain frame of mind, he can slow time to a crawl. Nothing else slows down, though. Simon almost suffocates in the space of a few minutes because he can't get enough air into his lungs. If he can slow the flow of time, could he reverse it and go back to change his actions that led to the disastrous night of Celeste's suicide?
The author has made a bold choice to open the novel with the pre-climactic scene depicted on the cover: a cocktail of drugs, some poison, is infused into tea which Simon drinks before he realizes its contents. Despite this information, and all the other foreshadowing action in the novel, the first climax comes as a surprise, and the final twist is totally unanticipated.
I almost set the book aside at first, because Simon at the beginning is a total fool. He has so much to envy, and values none of it highly. Celeste's death seems almost a punishment for his indifference. Then I was drawn into his struggle to make things right, despite his pathetic focus on incidentals such as which person he had been unfaithful to Celeste with.
In the end, I was glad I had not given up on Simon or his struggle. Because in this concept of the passage of time, all ends are possible. A happy ending is not only possible, but inevitable, where we can amend time.
January 17, 2018
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