John Chapman

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night - Time After Time

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Produktbeschreibung

Hold on to your time-hopping hats and chronological compasses, you're about to embark on a tempestuous trek through the tangled threads of time! Prepare to be propelled into a paradoxical panorama of temporal tampering, tantalizing twists, with a temporal traveler named Alex. This isn't your typical historical escapade - this is a heart-pounding, mind-bending odyssey where the past pirouettes on a precarious precipice, and the future teeters on the brink of temporal turmoil. Join me, your reluctant guide, as I'm thrust into this tumultuous tapestry of time by a chance collision with Alex Pearin, a.k.a. Jack the Ripper. (Fear not, he's not the macabre menace you might imagine. Time travel has a knack for confounding expectations.) Our convergence sparks the genesis of the enigmatic Time Agency Chronoclasm Organisation (TACO), a clandestine agency wielding the power to reshape history's tapestry. Suddenly, I'm staring down the barrel of choice: join TACO, or become... slightly dead. No pressure, right? So I find myself on a mission to pluck the Blair Witch from the jaws of temporal oblivion, caught in a time-war between TACO and their rivals, the enigmatic BELL (Bureau of Enfolded Loopback Logistics, maybe? They won't say.). But the stakes escalate with each tick of the temporal clock. My subsequent assignment? Ensuring the Titanic's tragic trajectory, 1,500 will perish, yes, but it's a grim necessity to safeguard countless lives across the boundless expanse of the multiverse. Time travel, as you'll discover, is a treacherous tapestry of triumphs and tribulations. Then there's 1493. Leonardo da Vinci, on the cusp of aviation genius. But meddling with the timeline is a delicate dance. So Alex and I waltz into Florence, trying to convince Leonardo da Vinci to hold off on his airborne dreams. But the allure of flight proves irresistible, and we'll find ourselves soaring alongside him, rewriting history with every wingbeat. And amidst the temporal paradoxes, I uncover a shocking truth: I founded BELL.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: JayDax
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 149g
• ISBN-13: 9798231057290
• Artikelnr.: 75263871

Autorenporträt

John Chapman was born in Birmingham, England in 1935 and grew up mainly in Gloucestershire. He attended Southampton University and gained an honours degree in mathematics with aeronautics; but was seduced by the emerging computer technology. After a spell in Northern Ireland he moved to Toronto where he worked for Ferranti-Packard with some of the brightest brains of the period and developed techniques for digitising oil-well logs to release fifty year old data to computer technology. After spells in Australia, Scotland and Sweden he returned to England in 1970 to work for ICL, having married Ann in 1966 and having three children. Here he continued to travel the world advising many institutions on how best to exploit the new technologies before retiring in 1992. He became a school inspector, served for nearly fifty years as a local councillor and became deeply immersed in local and military history being either the author or co-author of many books. He was also a leader in helping others, being the chairman of his local voluntary society for many years.