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Time and Tyde
Time and Tyde is the story of Vincent Demarco, a man whose life becomes increasingly bizarre after he meets Tony Tyde, an eccentric entrepreneur claiming to be a researcher who has come from the future to study him. As a result of Tony's persistent interference in his life, and his own weakness in resisting it, Vince is drawn into Tony's world of money, beautiful women, and events so extraordinary that he begins to doubt his own sanity.
Nothing makes sense any more to Vincent. Yet, when he finally begins to assert his independence from Tony, things go from bad to much, much worse.
It turns out that being insane and being visited by an amoral jerk from the future are not all that different. Whether he believes his troubles are down to one or the other, for Vince the outcome is just the same – and just as disastrous.
There is plenty of comedy in this otherwise very dark drama. If Nick Hornby had written K-PAX, the result might have been something like this.
Nothing makes sense any more to Vincent. Yet, when he finally begins to assert his independence from Tony, things go from bad to much, much worse.
It turns out that being insane and being visited by an amoral jerk from the future are not all that different. Whether he believes his troubles are down to one or the other, for Vince the outcome is just the same – and just as disastrous.
There is plenty of comedy in this otherwise very dark drama. If Nick Hornby had written K-PAX, the result might have been something like this.
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First published September 14, 2015
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About the author
Graham Storrs
51 books55 followersGraham Storrs lives on a mountaintop in rural Australia with his wife, an Airedale terrier and a Tonkinese cat. He writes science fiction - exploring how science and technology might change our lives and how we might react to it.
He has published children's science books as well as other non-fiction work but, in the past few years, has focused on fiction. His previous novel, Heaven is a Place on Earth, explores the deceptions allowed in a world dominated by augmented and virtual realities. His new novel, Cargo Cult, is a sci-fi comedy adventure.
His début novel, Timesplash, a sci-fi thriller, and its Aurealis Award shortlisted sequel, True Path are published by Pan Macmillan/Momentum.
He has published children's science books as well as other non-fiction work but, in the past few years, has focused on fiction. His previous novel, Heaven is a Place on Earth, explores the deceptions allowed in a world dominated by augmented and virtual realities. His new novel, Cargo Cult, is a sci-fi comedy adventure.
His début novel, Timesplash, a sci-fi thriller, and its Aurealis Award shortlisted sequel, True Path are published by Pan Macmillan/Momentum.
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May 2, 2016
Great little time travel story. The protagonist is utterly clueless as a mysterious stranger moves into his life and "helps" him, with horrible, and probably inevitable, consequences.
The basic rule of time travel is that the past can't be changed. That means that if you try, you will fail. If you don't fail, whatever happened was meant to happen and must happen.
This story explores this, and the associated concept of free will and choice.
I enjoyed it very much, and particularly the Brisbane setting (not that I'm a huge fan of Brisbane, but it's interesting to read about it).
The basic rule of time travel is that the past can't be changed. That means that if you try, you will fail. If you don't fail, whatever happened was meant to happen and must happen.
This story explores this, and the associated concept of free will and choice.
I enjoyed it very much, and particularly the Brisbane setting (not that I'm a huge fan of Brisbane, but it's interesting to read about it).
September 19, 2015
Another fantastic offering from Mr Storrs, this time very Locally presented with a great flavour of Australia. It's not heavy on the time travel I must admit, and as much as I enjoy the harder science I did find a lot here to appreciate more mentally than in the action feel of some of his other works. In fact I think you can make a compelling case for calling this a psychological, rather than technological story, and very well handled it is too.
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