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Extra Time
‘Whatever is has already been, and what will be, has been before!'
Alex, now a famous TV presenter with his best friend Billy, was once plagued by hallucinations as a child, in which the ‘watchers' would peer from the shadows. His medication staves them off these days until he meets the unlikeable American Warwick Vane, who introduces him to the strange organisation of Trinity, based somewhere in the London underground.
Alex and Billy live, breathe and eat football, so when they are given the opportunity to change England's 1966 World Cup defeat by West Germany, they jump at the chance despite the craziness regarding their ability to time travel. They are thrown into a world where time has crossed boundaries and tourists from the future can travel back in time to watch historical events from a benevolent distance. However some powerful people know that events in the past can be manipulated for their own gain, and Billy and Alex find their lives in grave danger.
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Extra Time is the debut novel by Calvin Clarke. A Science graduate of the Open University, he has coached a girls' football team and now teaches in a London school. Having lost a daughter to a rare lung condition, he now campaigns for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, and enjoys playing guitar in his spare time.
He said: "I'd like to think I've got a statement to make! The ideas behind my story have probably been evolving for most of my life, but it's taken me the last fifteen years to write them down. A lot has happened in that time.
I once watched a time travel film (the name I forget) which became the catalyst that sparked the story going. Suddenly I had a eureka moment that brought everything together.
I've always found the paradoxes of time travel intriguing and to get my novel on a bookshelf next to the most influential Sci-Fi author, Arthur C Clarke, would make it all worthwhile. Maybe he's a distant relative!"
Alex, now a famous TV presenter with his best friend Billy, was once plagued by hallucinations as a child, in which the ‘watchers' would peer from the shadows. His medication staves them off these days until he meets the unlikeable American Warwick Vane, who introduces him to the strange organisation of Trinity, based somewhere in the London underground.
Alex and Billy live, breathe and eat football, so when they are given the opportunity to change England's 1966 World Cup defeat by West Germany, they jump at the chance despite the craziness regarding their ability to time travel. They are thrown into a world where time has crossed boundaries and tourists from the future can travel back in time to watch historical events from a benevolent distance. However some powerful people know that events in the past can be manipulated for their own gain, and Billy and Alex find their lives in grave danger.
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Extra Time is the debut novel by Calvin Clarke. A Science graduate of the Open University, he has coached a girls' football team and now teaches in a London school. Having lost a daughter to a rare lung condition, he now campaigns for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, and enjoys playing guitar in his spare time.
He said: "I'd like to think I've got a statement to make! The ideas behind my story have probably been evolving for most of my life, but it's taken me the last fifteen years to write them down. A lot has happened in that time.
I once watched a time travel film (the name I forget) which became the catalyst that sparked the story going. Suddenly I had a eureka moment that brought everything together.
I've always found the paradoxes of time travel intriguing and to get my novel on a bookshelf next to the most influential Sci-Fi author, Arthur C Clarke, would make it all worthwhile. Maybe he's a distant relative!"
328 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 31, 2015
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August 19, 2020
Good story written by a good man. Keep up the good work Mr. Clarke.
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