A Companion to Out of Time
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I've produced this booklet to provide some background information on how I wrote my science fiction novels: 'The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester’.
Its primary purpose is to try and give an insight into how I developed the plot in the form the novel was written and also the origin of the material I used to support it. Writing a story involving traveling in time without ending up in paradoxical corners is quite difficult and because of this I've devoted a fair amount of this booklet and quite a few passages in my novel on the subject in the hope of explaining to myself what I think is meant by Time.
Bruce Macfarlane
Bruce is a retired Health Physicist who lives with his wife on the south coast of England, just a few minutes' walk from the sea. When he's not researching King Arthur, he's out walking on the South Downs with his wife and his friends trying to remember all the names of the flowers and mushrooms his wife has identified.When it's raining he can be found sometimes in his "shed" as his wife calls it, trying to master new jazz chords.A life of writing scientific reports and reading early science fiction, especially the genre of time travel such as the works of Anderson, Simak and Wells encouraged him to start writing his own novels about the adventures of a modern man and a Victorian lady whom he met at a cricket match in 1873.His stories, The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester, have been described as "Tom Holt meets P.G. Wodehouse meets Philip K. Dick meets Fortean Times."
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A Companion to Out of Time - Bruce Macfarlane
A Companion to Out of Time
Some explanatory notes on time travel and characters in my books of the Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester.
by
Bruce Macfarlane
Copyright 2016 Bruce Macfarlane
Published by Aldwick Publishing
www.aldwickpublishing.com
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Preface
Introduction
Choosing a Format for the Story
The Drivers for the Story
Understanding Time Travel
H. G. Wells and the Time Dimension
Mars
Places and People used in ‘Out of Time
About the Author
Connect with Bruce Macfarlane
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
diting of my novels Julia Macfarlane & Heather Robbins
Book Cover:
Art work by author using PicsArt Photo Studio for Android.
Star fields in image:
Star-Forming Region LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Star-Forming Region LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Credit: NASA/ESA. Star fields in images: Star-Forming Region LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Star-Forming Region LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Credit: NASA/ESA. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/LH_95.jpg
Time piece: Antikythera mechanism generated by author using Javascript.
Planet; full moon photo taken by author with Celestron C8 telescope.
Preface
I've produced this booklet to provide some background information on how I wrote my science fiction novels, The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester.
Its primary purpose is to try and give an insight into how I developed the form of the novels and also the origin of the material I used to support it. Writing a story involving traveling in time without ending up in paradoxical corners is quite difficult and because of this I've devoted a fair amount of this booklet and quite a few passages in my novel on the subject in the hope of explaining to myself what I think is meant by Time. For without some understanding of