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Time Stamp
The year is 2058.
When genius holiday designer Bert Chalmers falls for Nina’s libertine charms, he senses that the Elite - the rulers of the one world system, known as “IState” - may have tricked the world into a technological, transhuman existence - the extraordinarily realistic hive-mind, known as the Singularity.
But the Singularity is missing something that even he cannot recreate in his high-tech AI laboratories; the spirit and joy of truly living. Freedom, he discovers, is now an illusion to all but the minority who manage the farms and countryside.
As the Elite coerce the remaining free humans into the hive-mind of the Singularity, Nina vanishes after a brutal encounter with authority. Stunned, Bert clones himself and, along with Tor, a spunky farming girl, they head into an extraordinary journey back in time to secretly disrupt the past in order to realign the future.
Bert aims for the 1990’s, the beginning of the computer age, but they end up in a time where the humble postage stamp is the biggest tech around…
“Thoroughly entertaining, thought provoking, hilarious and resonant with our time, Time Stamp is an absolute blockbuster of alternative storytelling.”
When genius holiday designer Bert Chalmers falls for Nina’s libertine charms, he senses that the Elite - the rulers of the one world system, known as “IState” - may have tricked the world into a technological, transhuman existence - the extraordinarily realistic hive-mind, known as the Singularity.
But the Singularity is missing something that even he cannot recreate in his high-tech AI laboratories; the spirit and joy of truly living. Freedom, he discovers, is now an illusion to all but the minority who manage the farms and countryside.
As the Elite coerce the remaining free humans into the hive-mind of the Singularity, Nina vanishes after a brutal encounter with authority. Stunned, Bert clones himself and, along with Tor, a spunky farming girl, they head into an extraordinary journey back in time to secretly disrupt the past in order to realign the future.
Bert aims for the 1990’s, the beginning of the computer age, but they end up in a time where the humble postage stamp is the biggest tech around…
“Thoroughly entertaining, thought provoking, hilarious and resonant with our time, Time Stamp is an absolute blockbuster of alternative storytelling.”
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Published August 1, 2022
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About the author
James Erith
25 books31 followersRestless after schooling, James traveled and experienced plenty of adventures. He has been shot at, scaled Pyramids, climbed mountains, been through earthquakes, police detained and even swum with beavers.
James specialized in getting lost quite a bit, like in the Canadian wilderness in bear season, as well as experiencing hypothermia, dysentery, muggings, altitude sickness, thefts, a broken neck, desert breakdowns, etc.
Inadvertently these experiences set James up for a big writing journey. (If only I’d gone into real adventuring like his old school-friend, Bear…)
In the 1990s James worked as a journalist for the financial pages of the Yorkshire Post, scooping the infamous Gerald Ratner; ‘Crap’ story.
James designed and built gardens for several years in London before upping sticks to a small village between the Dales and the Moors of North Yorkshire.
The inspirational landscapes of bleak hills, old monasteries, and expansive views were an ideal choice for the setting of the Eden Chronicles series. James commenced writing the series in 2007.
Following a brief and rather embarrassing appearance on ITV’s‚”Honeymoons from Hell” TV show (fleeing a psychotic African safari operator), James became an extremely minor celebrity. Fortunately, this happened pre-YouTube!
As a youth, James had his sights on playing the game of cricket for England, but a long list of injuries and a genuine lack of talent forced the issue. However, a notable sporting triumph in 2013 saw James row the English Channel and the 21 tidal miles of the Thames in aid of MND and Breakthrough Breast cancer.
James retains his childhood passion for making dens, tall stories, and stargazing.
James specialized in getting lost quite a bit, like in the Canadian wilderness in bear season, as well as experiencing hypothermia, dysentery, muggings, altitude sickness, thefts, a broken neck, desert breakdowns, etc.
Inadvertently these experiences set James up for a big writing journey. (If only I’d gone into real adventuring like his old school-friend, Bear…)
In the 1990s James worked as a journalist for the financial pages of the Yorkshire Post, scooping the infamous Gerald Ratner; ‘Crap’ story.
James designed and built gardens for several years in London before upping sticks to a small village between the Dales and the Moors of North Yorkshire.
The inspirational landscapes of bleak hills, old monasteries, and expansive views were an ideal choice for the setting of the Eden Chronicles series. James commenced writing the series in 2007.
Following a brief and rather embarrassing appearance on ITV’s‚”Honeymoons from Hell” TV show (fleeing a psychotic African safari operator), James became an extremely minor celebrity. Fortunately, this happened pre-YouTube!
As a youth, James had his sights on playing the game of cricket for England, but a long list of injuries and a genuine lack of talent forced the issue. However, a notable sporting triumph in 2013 saw James row the English Channel and the 21 tidal miles of the Thames in aid of MND and Breakthrough Breast cancer.
James retains his childhood passion for making dens, tall stories, and stargazing.
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September 26, 2022
Great fast moving story.
Amusing and a good read.
Amusing and a good read.
August 1, 2024
This book is brilliant.
James shares a deep and starkly clear vision of the horrendous dystopian technocracy that we all could so easily end up in if society continues down its current path of The Globalists enforcing ever further and more-draconian control on 'the masses' (the "Useless Eaters"). This is the future that evil megalomaniacal villains like the lunatics at The World Economic Forum lust for... UNLESS we fight back, and unless we finally draw a line in the sand and shout loudly: "We Do Not Consent!"...
Time Stamp is a futuristic sort-of sci-fi journey first into a terrifying future, and then back, through time travel, to a past where maybe, just maybe the 'hero' of the tale might just be able to change events sufficiently to avoid the car crash that humanity is heading towards.
I'll say no more, other than I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would strongly recommend it - particularly if you have any degree of interest / knowledge in current geopolitics and if you've already peeped behind the curtain...
James shares a deep and starkly clear vision of the horrendous dystopian technocracy that we all could so easily end up in if society continues down its current path of The Globalists enforcing ever further and more-draconian control on 'the masses' (the "Useless Eaters"). This is the future that evil megalomaniacal villains like the lunatics at The World Economic Forum lust for... UNLESS we fight back, and unless we finally draw a line in the sand and shout loudly: "We Do Not Consent!"...
Time Stamp is a futuristic sort-of sci-fi journey first into a terrifying future, and then back, through time travel, to a past where maybe, just maybe the 'hero' of the tale might just be able to change events sufficiently to avoid the car crash that humanity is heading towards.
I'll say no more, other than I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would strongly recommend it - particularly if you have any degree of interest / knowledge in current geopolitics and if you've already peeped behind the curtain...
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