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The Anachronistic Code
It's 1985, and Josh Donegal is seventeen…AGAIN.
Josh has shifted back in time some fifty years and he doesn't know how, much less why. What’s more, he's noticing temporal anachronisms—minute changes that would only be obvious to somebody who had lived through the 80s before.
Is Josh alone? Is somebody trying to send out a coded message?
He's going to have to find all the changes to figure it out.
Josh has shifted back in time some fifty years and he doesn't know how, much less why. What’s more, he's noticing temporal anachronisms—minute changes that would only be obvious to somebody who had lived through the 80s before.
Is Josh alone? Is somebody trying to send out a coded message?
He's going to have to find all the changes to figure it out.
281 pages, Paperback
Published November 29, 2019
About the author
Dwayne R. James
20 books4 followersAward-winning watercolour artist and author Dwayne James lives in Peterborough, Ontario where he writes and paints as often as he can, that is when he's not spending time with his very forgiving family.
Dwayne has a Masters Degree in archaeology, something he claims is definitive proof that he knows how to write creatively. "Indeed, the most important skill I learned in university," he posits, "is the ability to pretentiously write about myself in the third person."
After spending close to a decade as a technical writer at a large multi-national computer company, Dwayne opted to look at their January 2009 decision to downsize him as an opportunity to become a stay@home Dad for his newborn twins, and pursue his painting and writing whenever the boys allow him to do so. It is a decision that continues to make him giggle with wild abandon to this very day.
Dwayne has a Masters Degree in archaeology, something he claims is definitive proof that he knows how to write creatively. "Indeed, the most important skill I learned in university," he posits, "is the ability to pretentiously write about myself in the third person."
After spending close to a decade as a technical writer at a large multi-national computer company, Dwayne opted to look at their January 2009 decision to downsize him as an opportunity to become a stay@home Dad for his newborn twins, and pursue his painting and writing whenever the boys allow him to do so. It is a decision that continues to make him giggle with wild abandon to this very day.
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August 2, 2021
The Anachronistic Code: Memories from Tomorrow.
And The Escape from Tomorrow . These represents part 3 and 4 parts of a planned 8 part series. I read the first one, The Anachronistic Code: Deja Me some time ago.
The premise is that 65 year old time traveller, Josh, suddenly wakes up in his bed at 18 years old. James fought revealing the setting he modelled “Robertson” on but it was clearly “our” home town of Cochrane, where I taught Dwayne. The protagonist, Josh, comes from a post apocalyptic 2035 - the world has presumably been wiped out by a yellow plague, (hmm predicted Covid?) except for those living on, and managing to escape to, PEI before the Confederation bridge was blown up to prevent the spread of the disease.
In book one, Josh discovered what he calls anachronisms - changes to familiar song lyrics from how recalled them as an adult remembering his youth. He discovers these are clues that he must follow in order to hopefully change the future as he knew it.
In books 3 and 4 there are frequent shifts between the world of 2035 and 1985. In the future, he lives on a methane production farm built on the waters of Northumberland Strait in a refurbished school bus. The homes are crowded and a strange anomaly of old fashioned and very modern appliances. Josh of the future is an engineer who very craftily builds remarkable things with salvaged material, including a submarine made from a VW bus.
The plot moves at a good pace with much foreshadowing and many chapter end in cliff hangers. Inevitably the next chapter is in a different time, so I sometimes skipped ahead to resolve the conflict created. In some cases, I had missed some critical information in the previous chapter which I discovered when I returned to sequence.
While I enjoyed the easy read, I sometimes stumbled on the detailed physics, science and construction that James includes. Many of the concepts were way above my head, and I am amazed by James’ multi faceted intelligence. I am impressed: not just a writer, an artist, a wood worker, archaeologist, but perhaps a prophet. No doubt many other adjectives could be added but his head will swell.
I particularly enjoyed identifying Cochrane features (eg. Highs school hallways) and even some people. James makes a convincing argument for the acceptance of homosexuality, and Josh clearly idolizes his father.
My only complaint is that the remainder of the story still rests largely in his head - as far as I know. Hopefully I will still be around when he publishes the rest.
And The Escape from Tomorrow . These represents part 3 and 4 parts of a planned 8 part series. I read the first one, The Anachronistic Code: Deja Me some time ago.
The premise is that 65 year old time traveller, Josh, suddenly wakes up in his bed at 18 years old. James fought revealing the setting he modelled “Robertson” on but it was clearly “our” home town of Cochrane, where I taught Dwayne. The protagonist, Josh, comes from a post apocalyptic 2035 - the world has presumably been wiped out by a yellow plague, (hmm predicted Covid?) except for those living on, and managing to escape to, PEI before the Confederation bridge was blown up to prevent the spread of the disease.
In book one, Josh discovered what he calls anachronisms - changes to familiar song lyrics from how recalled them as an adult remembering his youth. He discovers these are clues that he must follow in order to hopefully change the future as he knew it.
In books 3 and 4 there are frequent shifts between the world of 2035 and 1985. In the future, he lives on a methane production farm built on the waters of Northumberland Strait in a refurbished school bus. The homes are crowded and a strange anomaly of old fashioned and very modern appliances. Josh of the future is an engineer who very craftily builds remarkable things with salvaged material, including a submarine made from a VW bus.
The plot moves at a good pace with much foreshadowing and many chapter end in cliff hangers. Inevitably the next chapter is in a different time, so I sometimes skipped ahead to resolve the conflict created. In some cases, I had missed some critical information in the previous chapter which I discovered when I returned to sequence.
While I enjoyed the easy read, I sometimes stumbled on the detailed physics, science and construction that James includes. Many of the concepts were way above my head, and I am amazed by James’ multi faceted intelligence. I am impressed: not just a writer, an artist, a wood worker, archaeologist, but perhaps a prophet. No doubt many other adjectives could be added but his head will swell.
I particularly enjoyed identifying Cochrane features (eg. Highs school hallways) and even some people. James makes a convincing argument for the acceptance of homosexuality, and Josh clearly idolizes his father.
My only complaint is that the remainder of the story still rests largely in his head - as far as I know. Hopefully I will still be around when he publishes the rest.
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March 8, 2021With the release of Book Four in "The Anachronistic Code" series, we are officially at the halfway point!
I've got a total of eight books planned for this series, and I've been having an absolute blast writing it. The idea has been taking up real estate in my head for a couple of years now, and refuses to leave until I've written it out. What's more, the serendipitous coincidences that have happened during the writing process have blown my mind.
As I work on Book Five, be sure to catch up with what's going on in:
I've got a total of eight books planned for this series, and I've been having an absolute blast writing it. The idea has been taking up real estate in my head for a couple of years now, and refuses to leave until I've written it out. What's more, the serendipitous coincidences that have happened during the writing process have blown my mind.
As I work on Book Five, be sure to catch up with what's going on in:
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