The Basingstoke Chronicles

by Robert Appleton

There was something decidedly unusual about the dead body found floating off the coast of Cuba. The wool of his garment, while only twenty years old, was from an animal extinct for over nine thousand years. A group of professional scuba divers, including Lord Henry Basingstoke and his friend, Rodrigo Quintas, eagerly search the ocean bed for clues. But when they find a mysterious underwater vehicle, a fun vacation becomes an obsessive quest to be the first to solve the mystery. A daring journey back through time takes them to a hidden land of rainforests, deadly creatures, and a doomed civilization. A place where nothing is what it seems. And the longer they stay, the more their adventure becomes, quite literally, a race against time.

191 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Robert Appleton is a British science fiction and adventure author partial to tales of survival in far-flung locations. Many of his sci-fi books share the same universe as his popular Alien Safari series, though tend to feature standalone storylines. His rebellious characters range from an orphaned grifter on Mars to a lone woman gate-crashing the war in her biotech suit. His sci-fi readers regularly earn enough frequent flyer miles to qualify for a cross-galaxy voyage of their choosing. His publishers include Harlequin Carina Press, and he also ghost-writes novels in other genres. In his free time he hikes, plays soccer, and kayaks whenever he can. The night sky is his inspiration.

His work has been nominated for several awards, and in 2011 he won the EPIC Award for Best Historical Fiction.

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Reviews

[Angus · Rating 1 out of 5]

Time travel and lost civilisations. It was obvious how it was all going to end by the time I was a third of the way through The Basingstoke Chronicles, and that's pretty much symptomatic of this whole book. Every now and then it rises to the point of being almost interesting, only to be let down by cliched plotting, frankly amateurish writing, and occasionally genuine incoherence. Characters are introduced and then disappear again, pointlessly, without ever having made the slightest difference. My recommendation to readers of this book would be, don't bother.

[Jim Cangany · Rating 4 out of 5]

As long as there is science fiction, there will be two subjects of interest - time travel and Atlantis. Robert Appleton addresses both in this unique spin on the question of what would happen if one traveled back in time and discovered the lost continent. The story begins in 1979, goes all the way back 11,000 years and concludes in 1912. Along the way, Lord Henry Basingstoke makes friends, enemies and discoveries beyond his wildest imagination. If you're a fan of Wells and Verne, you'll enjoy this addition to the time travel pantheon.