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Time Aerials: A Time Travel Diversion
It’s dangerous to hug a time aerial, even a ghostly one…
In these worlds, books change and stories mutate. And minds leak into time. The Extirpators hover, the Squamaflies swarm, and the girl in black knows more than she should.
ISBN: 978-0-9943704-1-9; ASIN: B0105MKQBA Kindle edition
In these worlds, books change and stories mutate. And minds leak into time. The Extirpators hover, the Squamaflies swarm, and the girl in black knows more than she should.
ISBN: 978-0-9943704-1-9; ASIN: B0105MKQBA Kindle edition
309 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 21, 2015
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About the author
Russell Kightley
11 booksRussell Kightley has been writing sci-fi stories since 2014. His books are philosophical science fiction with a slice of satire and a twist of time travel. Often, they explore the nature of consciousness and reality. That sounds heavy, but they’re written in a light and easy style, often with wordplay. The short story collections, Café Street and Global Replace are a great way to sample them. Books available at all major retailers.
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July 17, 2016
More please. *Small spoiler*
Rarely does a book ensnare a reader from the first sentence on the first page. This one does so and its a roller coaster ride thereafter. For one's brain that is.
Amazing twists and turns. Somehow the author manages to keep connecting everything. Need your brain functioning to keep track of everything but an enjoyable challenge.
A pretty unique application of time travel. It's time that's traveling and unravelling and reversing. Not the people, mostly. The Great Mind keeps assessing and interfering when reality stretches to breaking point.
I'd be very interested to read what this remarkable author generates next.
Rarely does a book ensnare a reader from the first sentence on the first page. This one does so and its a roller coaster ride thereafter. For one's brain that is.
Amazing twists and turns. Somehow the author manages to keep connecting everything. Need your brain functioning to keep track of everything but an enjoyable challenge.
A pretty unique application of time travel. It's time that's traveling and unravelling and reversing. Not the people, mostly. The Great Mind keeps assessing and interfering when reality stretches to breaking point.
I'd be very interested to read what this remarkable author generates next.
March 12, 2021
The book is about time travel but in an odd sort of way. The book wanders from scene to scene. The scenes are interesting in themselves but do not seem to lead anywhere. Now, I kept reading, hoping that a pattern would emerge and understanding would flood my mind. I am at the end and neither of those things have happened for me.
I love time travel stories, but I really do not know what to think about this one. It is well written on a micro scale but seemingly unformed at a macro level.
The subtitle says that it is a diversion. I associate that word with something light hearted and frothy. There is little in this book that matches that description.
I am not sorry that I read it but it is unlikely that I will ever revisit this book.
I love time travel stories, but I really do not know what to think about this one. It is well written on a micro scale but seemingly unformed at a macro level.
The subtitle says that it is a diversion. I associate that word with something light hearted and frothy. There is little in this book that matches that description.
I am not sorry that I read it but it is unlikely that I will ever revisit this book.
July 12, 2019
A heady read
This a fun but twisted read. It has more ideas than half a dozen books mashed together. I just wish this was a paper copy. Then I could see if the words resets need themselves as in the book. Hee hee!
This a fun but twisted read. It has more ideas than half a dozen books mashed together. I just wish this was a paper copy. Then I could see if the words resets need themselves as in the book. Hee hee!
August 17, 2021
I haven't had this much fun reading a book in a very long time. Creative and marvelously written.
October 6, 2017
This is a novel that explores the subject of consciousness, deep time and time travel.
What if time wasn't infinite? What if it was a limited resource that could run out? What if time was like a piece of string that had knots in it? Well, Great Minds think alike is all I can say to that without being too spoilerish.
This book has a single story arc that binds together a number of vignettes that contain some novel ideas in what to me is a well-travelled genre: time travel. The author iterates his way through these ideas in a number of humorous and innovative ways and there is a lot here to like considering it is a debut novel.
On a technical level, the prose in this book is excellent though obviously strongly influenced by the author's joint Australian and English heritage, which some readers might find a little unfamiliar at first. Overall I thought the story idea was good, however, I thought it lost some focus about two thirds of the way through the book and the ending left too many unanswered questions for my taste.
An author to keep an eye on.
Caveat: I know the author and I worked professionally on an earlier version of this book.
What if time wasn't infinite? What if it was a limited resource that could run out? What if time was like a piece of string that had knots in it? Well, Great Minds think alike is all I can say to that without being too spoilerish.
This book has a single story arc that binds together a number of vignettes that contain some novel ideas in what to me is a well-travelled genre: time travel. The author iterates his way through these ideas in a number of humorous and innovative ways and there is a lot here to like considering it is a debut novel.
On a technical level, the prose in this book is excellent though obviously strongly influenced by the author's joint Australian and English heritage, which some readers might find a little unfamiliar at first. Overall I thought the story idea was good, however, I thought it lost some focus about two thirds of the way through the book and the ending left too many unanswered questions for my taste.
An author to keep an eye on.
Caveat: I know the author and I worked professionally on an earlier version of this book.
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