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- Herausgeber: Greg Krojac
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
Aristotle is a Temporal Private Investigator. His normal jobs tend to be investigating cheating spouses by travelling back in time to catch them in flagrante delicate. A messy job but someone has to do it.
He's in a the British Library, researching background information for a new case, when the text and images on the page he's reading disappear before his very eyes.
Members of Project Clockwise, the team that discovered time travel are being wiped from existence.
Can Aristotle stop the erasures and save time travel and his job?
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
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TIME THIEF
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Greg Krojac
This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Please note that this book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2021 Greg Krojac
All rights reserved
Language: UK English
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Rules of time travel
18:03, Friday 17 March 2073
17:55, Thursday 23 March 2073
07:47, Friday 24 March 2073
08:23, Friday 24 March 2073
09:02, Friday 24 March 2073
06:15, Saturday 25 March 2073
08:00, Saturday, 25 March 2073
08:38, Saturday 25 March 2073
12:45, Wednesday 01 July 2020
09:33, Saturday 25 March 2073
12:45, Wednesday 01 July 2020
11:30, Saturday 25 March 2073
12:10, Saturday 25 March 2073
12:49, Saturday 25 March 2073
13:49, Saturday 25 March 2073
19:23, Friday 23 June 2034
13:55, Saturday 25 March 2073
15:47, Friday 17 October 2031
18:00, Wednesday 15 October 2031
15:30, Saturday 25 March 2073
17:05, Saturday 25 March 2073
10:37, Saturday 05 May 2029
10:14, Friday 21 September 1866
10:37, Saturday 05 May 2029
16:48, Saturday 25 March 2073
09:35, Tuesday 20 August 1991
09:10, Tuesday 20 August 1991
11:00, Wednesday 16 August 2169
THANK YOU
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NOVELS BY GREG KROJAC
NOVELLAS BY GREG KROJAC
FREE SHORT STORIES BY GREG KROJAC
DEDICATION
To Eliene Do Amor Divino (my better half) for her eternal understanding and patience as the words fall out of my head and into the computer.
To the memory of the great H. G. Wells.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tony Banfield, Peter Martin, and the Bromley Civic Society for their assistance.
“There are really four dimensions, three of which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.”
(H.G. Wells, The Time Machine)
The Rules of time travel
A traveller can only travel through time, not space. If he/she is at location A (in 2021) and wants to travel to location B (in 1989) the traveller must move to location B in the present (2021) and then travel to the past (1989).
A traveller cannot travel to the future from his/her original timeline’s present.
A traveller (in the past) can only “future” travel to his previous origin. Examples:
Present-day is 2021. A traveller has travelled to the past, 1989. He/she can only return to 2021 (present-day)
Present-day is 2021. A traveller has travelled to the past, 1989. He/she wants to travel to 2005. He has to return to 2021 (present-day) and then travel to 2005
Present-day is 2021. A traveller has travelled to the past, 1989. He/she then travels further in the past to 1975. If he/she wants to return to 2021 (present-day), he has to travel from 1975 to 1989
and then
1989 to 2021
18:03, Friday 17 March 2073
Avalon Hotel, Brixton, London SW9
It was dark and musty inside the wardrobe. Temporal Private Investigator, Aristotle Dunn, hated hiding in wardrobes but it was the best way to get his job done; the life of a TPI wasn’t always what it was cracked up to be.
Ari peered through the gap between the ill-fitting doors into the dingy hotel room. The hotel rooms were always dingy. There was far too great a risk of cheating spouses being seen and recognised if they used upmarket hotels for their extramarital activities. The room looked like any one of dozens of hotel rooms that he’d staked-out before – a double bed with bedside cabinets, a tacky framed print or two on the side walls (this particular room was adorned with two less than interesting paintings of tulips in a vase), an outdated TV set (flat screen, but still of another age), and, of course, a wardrobe (in which he was ensconced).
Wardrobes were the best place from which to spy on and record extra-marital affairs. They were seldom used for what they were built for, the errant couples flinging their clothes off and not worrying about where they fell. Wardrobes were an irrelevancy put in the rooms on the off-chance that somebody might want to stay overnight.
Most of Ari’s work came from spouses who wanted evidence of their partner’s cheating to strengthen their negotiating positions when discussing divorce settlements. He would much rather have been out solving great mysteries but such cases were few and far between so he put up with the bread-and-butter side of the business – catching cheating husbands and wives.
