Timely Persuasion follows an anonymous music critic on a quest to save his sister from the relationship that ended her life. After a chance encounter at a bowling alley leaves him with the ability to travel in time, our hero uses his musical knowledge to “blink” through the years attempting to keep the couple apart by any means necessary. But . . .
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The Starwalker is a starship with an experimental star-stepping drive. Designed to use the gravity wells of stars to fold space, she can travel between star systems faster than FTL. That is, if they can get it to work. She is run by a sophisticated AI who doesn’t always follow her programming. She has only just been born, and . . .
Part II of The American Book of the Dead – a novel about evolution and the apocalypse, which won Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival and the Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction. In Part II, the writer of the first novel is commissioned to write another book that may help avert catastrophe, and pave the way for . . .
Out of loneliness, or boredom, maybe, you assign a URL to your heart and share it on the forums and social networks you frequent. The hits trickle in at first, the unusually curious trampling through, poking and prodding, unsure of what they’re seeing. But then the links spread. Everybody wants to see your heart, to have a role in pulling . . .
A communications specialist in the year 2185 is marooned in deep space by his ship’s assistant (a transgenic fish/humanoid). Stranded just outside the horizon of a supermassive black hole, he begins to send messages back to record his actions and observations. A radio astronomer in present-day Antarctica is listening. Something terrible is about to happen. . . .
A group dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the past. Their responsibility is to fix time by reversing the changes made by other time travelers. . . .
The human race is unknowingly caught somewhere in time, and their very existence is at stake. They will need a protector who always has time on their side. This is a novel about how time travel helps save the future of humanity from a fate that no one suspects. . . .
An exploration of moments in history through the eyes of someone who was there. Cutler Phiney visits people involved in singular events, and gives us some insight into the people and their situation. He is an extraordinary figure of history, but not in history. While he has been involved in many important events, he is not recorded in a . . .
Three years ago, a group of adventurers set out on a journey to stop an invasion. Instead they stumbled upon a quest to save their world. Now, in the aftermath of those great events, two brothers in spirit will relive the quest that brought them together, and ultimately drove them apart. . . .
Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from the future to 1985 to try and fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue . . .
Girl in Time is serialized novel of suspense about Kendra, a genius who attracts the attention of industrial spies and vampires after she figures out how to travel in time. As the two groups become embroiled in deadly conflict she must figure out why and how to stop them in order to remain alive and free. . . .
Set in the modern era, Terra Fabula follows Jadyn Tzeki, a timeless alien researcher and jack-of-all-trades, and Tarioshi Kitanaka, a century-and-a-half-old mortal kitsune. After a suspicious attack fails to claim their lives, the two, along with Jadyn’s lunatic AI, discover that many strange things have been afoot while he’s been away. . . .
Timely Persuasion follows an anonymous music critic on a quest to save his sister from the relationship that ended her life. After a chance encounter at a bowling alley leaves him with the ability to travel in time, our hero uses his musical knowledge to “blink” through the years attempting to keep the couple apart by any means necessary. But . . .
There is a too-often cited "writing tip" and that is "show, don’t tell." The idea is, you write a scene to "show" readers what you mean, instead of "telling" them.
So, in simplistic terms, you don’t tell them "he was a nice guy," you show a nice guy:
Magestic is a sprawling sci-fi story covering the decades between the 1980s and 2025 or so. The idea is ambitious, to show how one time traveller affected the history of the world, and the text is certainly in-depth. The story is in 18 parts and the first two are over 200 pages each, so we’re talking thousands of pages here.