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    A Pisa The Action
    A Pisa The Action
    A Pisa The Action
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    A Pisa The Action

    By Rob Guy

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    Extract from the Houston Chronicle, Classifieds, August 25th 2329 AD.

    ……. "If you could go anywhere, or anywhen, in history, where and when would you go? Golgotha? Hastings? The Grassy Knoll? Nah! Get yourself to Pisa, Italy, 2169 AD during a particular hot day in June, 3:33pm GMT to be precise…..

    TimeLines Incorporated is proud to announce its latest time line. Come on down and take the trip of a lifetime. Remember: There's A Time And Place For Everything. TimeLines Incorporated."

    In the twenty fourth century life is dull, predictable and full of lawyers. When Henry and his wife take a time travelling holiday to Italy, it seems like the perfect getaway. I mean, who wants to go to Mars, or Saturn, or Ganymede these days? However, as the holiday progresses, one disaster follows another, until Henry is forced to take matters into his own hands, and call upon an old friend to help save the day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRob Guy
    Release dateJan 18, 2017
    ISBN9781386255925
    A Pisa The Action
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    Rob Guy

    Hello and welcome to my author page. I have been interested in science fiction and space travel since a young boy. Growing up with the Apollo moon missions helped I suppose. In school, when asked to write fiction during English class, it was always science fiction for me. I never considered writing anything else. Fiction can take you anywhere, the limit is your imagination, but science fiction can take you so much further. To the stars and back! I first took up the pen to write seriously in my early 20's, and wrote scores of short stories, one of which was publish in a local newsletter. I am originally from the UK, having emigrated to Australia's Gold Coast in 2007 with my wife and two children. I write whenever I can, and do not believe in writer's block. I love to write, even if it's a shopping list, but just as important to me is the feedback I receive from my readers. I am always available to answer any questions, so feel free to ask anything, or even post a review, good or bad! My best wishes Rob Guy.

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      Prologue

      Extract from the Houston Chronicle, Classifieds, August 25th 2329 AD.

      ……. If you could go anywhere, or anywhen, in history, where and when would you go? Forget Golgotha, or Hastings, or The Grassy Knoll. Get yourself to Pisa, Italy, 2169 AD during a particular hot day in June, 3:33pm GMT to be precise…..

      TimeLines Incorporated is proud to announce the opening of its latest time line. Come on down and take the trip of a lifetime. Remember: There’s A TimeLine And Place For Everything. TimeLines Incorporated."

      W ill you two hurry up!

      Shouting won’t make them come down any quicker, Henry, my wife Helen remarked as she shuffled past to the kitchen.

      Just because they don’t want to come on this trip doesn’t mean they have to hold us up. Come on now! I thumped at the banister rail, getting more and more exasperated.

      We can still leave them with my sister, you know, Helen called from the kitchen.

      I sighed, one reserved for a man who was at the cusp of understanding his teenage children, until he realised they had changed their minds. I ambled into the living room, shoulders and mind in a slump, and activated the drapes. An entire wall of glass slowly emerged, like the drawing back of a monstrous eyelid, and the sunlight belched in, hurting my eyes, and filling the room with yellow light. As I grew accustomed, I gazed out at the endless vista of splendid, gilt edged clouds and brilliant sky. But there was something more to the marvellous panorama that stretched before me. It was the culmination of hundreds of years of hard work and planning; of dedication, commitment, determination, yes, even sacrifice, not to mention a few back-handers. Before me lay an entire world in the sky, well a city certainly. Ranged alongside each other, and behind each other in a mockery of nature stood tower after tower, glass and steel sentinels, built for one purpose, and one purpose only; money. Those cloud piercing barbicans, shimmering and magnificent in the morning sun, blasted the light into hundreds of different directions, like a mirror, shattered on concrete, its splinters radiating and catching the spectrum. It was beautiful, it was amazing, it was beyond the dreams of all past generations of Man.

      I bloody hated it!

      A vendor flew past, saw me, stopped and smiled, then flew on when I invited him, gesture only, to get lost. A noise to my left made me turn, and I watched as my neighbour, handlebars in hands, tipped his bowler hat to me, brushed a hand over his moustache, one

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