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Time Flies
GAY ROMANCE / SCIENCE FICTION / COMEDY
Topics: overcoming bullying, self-protection, alien life forms, alternative realities, medical marijuana
Small town Texas is tough on a gay kid, but this one decided to learn karate. Problem solved, or so he thought.
Time Flies is funny. It’s the tender story of a young man who doesn’t let society or its machinery hold him back. He’s going to fall in love, and there’s nothing you can do about it. He’s going to save the world, and it’s so Top Secret that nobody gives him a medal or says Thank You. Those would have been nice, but what he got was love.
His whole life is about hope. If bubba doesn’t give you hope, you make it yourself. If society says you’re substandard, go change the standard. Andreas learns how to do that, and he’s really funny doing it.
This is Wynn Wagner’s first book since a hospital stay of 5-months awhile ago. He has no pancreas now, and he suffers from dementia. Writing with dementia isn’t as simple as you might think.
Time Files starts angry. The narrator hates living in Texas, hates the bubbas down the street, and has a generally foul attitude. His rooster is continually stoned on pot seeds from somewhere. The book goes through snarky and funny, and it ends with some of the most loving prose we’ve seen in years.
Topics: overcoming bullying, self-protection, alien life forms, alternative realities, medical marijuana
Small town Texas is tough on a gay kid, but this one decided to learn karate. Problem solved, or so he thought.
Time Flies is funny. It’s the tender story of a young man who doesn’t let society or its machinery hold him back. He’s going to fall in love, and there’s nothing you can do about it. He’s going to save the world, and it’s so Top Secret that nobody gives him a medal or says Thank You. Those would have been nice, but what he got was love.
His whole life is about hope. If bubba doesn’t give you hope, you make it yourself. If society says you’re substandard, go change the standard. Andreas learns how to do that, and he’s really funny doing it.
This is Wynn Wagner’s first book since a hospital stay of 5-months awhile ago. He has no pancreas now, and he suffers from dementia. Writing with dementia isn’t as simple as you might think.
Time Files starts angry. The narrator hates living in Texas, hates the bubbas down the street, and has a generally foul attitude. His rooster is continually stoned on pot seeds from somewhere. The book goes through snarky and funny, and it ends with some of the most loving prose we’ve seen in years.
290 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2017
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About the author
Wynn Wagner
18 books26 followersWynn Wagner is the author of numerous books on several topics. You can find books on tarot, liturgy, science fiction, fantasy, and gay romance.
His fiction is usually funny and sometimes snarky. One of his books — Brent the Heart Reader — was the 2012 entry into the Gay Book Hall of Fame. Another fiction work is TIME FLIES, a coming out story in the science fiction genre.
Since 2010, Wagner has lived without a pancreas (Whipple procedure), which means his body no longer produces insulin or digestive enzymes. He says it makes nutrition a real science project. And because he had several books in the pipeline, readers got new releases throughout his 5-months in the hospital.
He and his husband are both retired. They live in Dallas, Texas (USA).
Dr. Wagner received a Th.D from St. Wolbodo Seminary and elsewhere a Masters of Liberal Arts and undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy. “Ancient history,” he said. “The earth has cooled significantly since all that.”
He is a retired archbishop and former president of the World Conference of Old Catholic Churches and Coadjutor of the North American Old Catholic Church.
He has written numerous gay and spiritual books. The author Patricia Nell Warren calls him a “powerhouse in GLBT publishing.”
Before that, he was a programmer who helped write the tax software used by some of the world’s largest corporations. He also wrote Opus-CBCS, a computer bulletin board system that was wildly popular in the 1980s. Opus generated millions of dollars for HIV and AIDS, back when almost nobody was helping fund research or caring for those suffering from the disease. He also wrote a short piece called “HIV: Day One” for those who have just learned they have HIV. “Day One” is hosted by AEGiS, an HIV web service operated by a religious order in San Juan Capistrano, CA (USA).
Before programming and writing, Wynn worked in radio in Texas and New York. Before that, he was a pimply-faced teenager.
He was awarded a key to the city by the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas. It was a key to the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a town Wynn has never visited. “No respect, I tell you,” he says.
Wynn is the son of Swedish immigrants who was adopted at birth. He sang as a boy soprano in the Texas Boys Choir and appeared on such television shows as Ed Sullivan and Perry Como. His singing took him to Carnegie Hall, to Europe, and to record dates like the last recording conducted by Igor Stravinsky.
Wynn Wagner is a member of The Authors Guild.
His fiction is usually funny and sometimes snarky. One of his books — Brent the Heart Reader — was the 2012 entry into the Gay Book Hall of Fame. Another fiction work is TIME FLIES, a coming out story in the science fiction genre.
Since 2010, Wagner has lived without a pancreas (Whipple procedure), which means his body no longer produces insulin or digestive enzymes. He says it makes nutrition a real science project. And because he had several books in the pipeline, readers got new releases throughout his 5-months in the hospital.
He and his husband are both retired. They live in Dallas, Texas (USA).
Dr. Wagner received a Th.D from St. Wolbodo Seminary and elsewhere a Masters of Liberal Arts and undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy. “Ancient history,” he said. “The earth has cooled significantly since all that.”
He is a retired archbishop and former president of the World Conference of Old Catholic Churches and Coadjutor of the North American Old Catholic Church.
He has written numerous gay and spiritual books. The author Patricia Nell Warren calls him a “powerhouse in GLBT publishing.”
Before that, he was a programmer who helped write the tax software used by some of the world’s largest corporations. He also wrote Opus-CBCS, a computer bulletin board system that was wildly popular in the 1980s. Opus generated millions of dollars for HIV and AIDS, back when almost nobody was helping fund research or caring for those suffering from the disease. He also wrote a short piece called “HIV: Day One” for those who have just learned they have HIV. “Day One” is hosted by AEGiS, an HIV web service operated by a religious order in San Juan Capistrano, CA (USA).
Before programming and writing, Wynn worked in radio in Texas and New York. Before that, he was a pimply-faced teenager.
He was awarded a key to the city by the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas. It was a key to the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a town Wynn has never visited. “No respect, I tell you,” he says.
Wynn is the son of Swedish immigrants who was adopted at birth. He sang as a boy soprano in the Texas Boys Choir and appeared on such television shows as Ed Sullivan and Perry Como. His singing took him to Carnegie Hall, to Europe, and to record dates like the last recording conducted by Igor Stravinsky.
Wynn Wagner is a member of The Authors Guild.
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February 17, 2017
This book is gay science fiction. It is funny, and it shows how bullies (even in Texas) can be put in their place. It has sex but not too much.
Time Flies is one of Wynn Wagner's best novels. The ebook is alive with hyperlinks.
Time Flies is one of Wynn Wagner's best novels. The ebook is alive with hyperlinks.
February 17, 2017
I know his other books, and I like the feisty narratives. Time Flies is one of Wynn's best romps. Sure, it's got sex scenes, but much much less than his other books. There are no vampires tricking on the tail of a commercial jet over the Atlantic ocean (That's in Vamp Camp.)
After I finished the paperbook, I got my hands on the Kindle version. The ebook is full of really cool hyperlinks. Some links explain. Some links are batsh*t crazy.
Time Flies is about bullies in gooberville bubba-land Texas. Nobody wants to help the gay kid, not in Waxahachie. I'm a Brooklyn kid, so I had ever even heard of Waxahachie.
Enter Andreas and his soul mate Mikka (gypsy). They not only handle the bullies in Podunk, they save the world from an invasion of illegal aliens (from another planet or dimension).
Time Flies grabs you in the first chapter and doesn't let go for 300 pages.
After I finished the paperbook, I got my hands on the Kindle version. The ebook is full of really cool hyperlinks. Some links explain. Some links are batsh*t crazy.
Time Flies is about bullies in gooberville bubba-land Texas. Nobody wants to help the gay kid, not in Waxahachie. I'm a Brooklyn kid, so I had ever even heard of Waxahachie.
Enter Andreas and his soul mate Mikka (gypsy). They not only handle the bullies in Podunk, they save the world from an invasion of illegal aliens (from another planet or dimension).
Time Flies grabs you in the first chapter and doesn't let go for 300 pages.
February 17, 2017
**>IT'S GAY SCIENCE FICTION AND NOT JUST ANOTHER 'WANKER' BOOK.<**
Ok, yeah yeah yeah I'm the dude that helped do the editing so I had to read things over several times. I think what I like about this one the most is the focus on the plot and less focus on the detailed sex explaining the remembrance of 'character's junk' etc. (junk=sex parts if you never heard the term). This is not an explicit wanking book like so many others on the market these days. Instead, it's loaded with lots of mysterious clues that continue to unfold when least expected. You can't form your own 'assumptions' while reading this because just when you think you've got it down the author kicks your ass with a totally different explanation. Middle-aged peeps will also love the main character's snarky humor.
Ok, yeah yeah yeah I'm the dude that helped do the editing so I had to read things over several times. I think what I like about this one the most is the focus on the plot and less focus on the detailed sex explaining the remembrance of 'character's junk' etc. (junk=sex parts if you never heard the term). This is not an explicit wanking book like so many others on the market these days. Instead, it's loaded with lots of mysterious clues that continue to unfold when least expected. You can't form your own 'assumptions' while reading this because just when you think you've got it down the author kicks your ass with a totally different explanation. Middle-aged peeps will also love the main character's snarky humor.
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