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The Future Fire Reviews TimeSplash

The Future Fire

My favourite spec fic magazine is The Future Fire, and its reviews section, The Future Fire Reviews, has just published a review of TimeSplash. It was actually a fairly lukewarm review, but well-written and well-researched. The reviewer, Keith Lawrence, called TimeSplash “a pleasant read” (ouch!) but for me, at least, [...]

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Congratulations to A.M. Harte, the winner of a free copy of TimeSplash for her outrageous suggestion that my fictional villain Sniper got his name from the Sonic the Hedgehog character Fang the Sniper. I don’t quite know why, but this really tickled me. (I think A.M. also deserves the prize for being the only [...]

‘Party Time’: Free Fiction

A first on the TimeSplash blog tour! Merrilee Faber has published today my short story, “Party Time”. This story has never before been published and was specially written for the tour. It is a prequel to my novel TimeSplash and deals with the discoverers of time travel and the birth of timesplashing. I hope [...]

2050 Is No Place for a Beautiful Young Woman

Sandra, the protagonist in TimeSplash, is a girl with a lot of problems. Today, in Wendy Morrell’s blog, Musings From Down Under, I talk to Wendy about Sandra’s background and the social and personal forces that moulded this remarkable young woman.

Yes, the TimeSplash 2010 blog tour has reached it’s next stop and I [...]

A Time Travel Resource for Sci-Fi Writers

Riding the wave with an Alcubierre warp drive

I just came across The Anderson Institute website and thought I would pass it on. I have no idea what this site is all about – it could be some kind of spoof for all I know -  but it contains some great summaries of [...]

When The Time Came For Time Travel

I just read a fascinating little post about time travel by Austin Coté Williams on the Love Will Prevail blog. Williams’ observation is that the idea of travelling in time didn’t become popular until “…we reached an era where constant change was apparent AND the technology of the time was just beginning to reach [...]

Creating TimeSplash: Finding The Right Time

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in” – David Henry Thoreau

Writing stories about time travel is one of the most challenging, but also one of the most satisfying undertakings I know. There are so many different models of how time travel might work, based on the many competing physical [...]