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Timesplash: Book 1 of the Timesplash Series by [Graham Storrs]

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It started out as something underground, edgy and cool. Then sniper took it all too far and people started dying.

That’s when time travelling changed from being an extreme sport to the ultimate terrorist weapon.

Scarred by their experiences in the timesplashing party scene, Jay and Sandra are thrown together in what becomes the biggest manhunt in history: the search for Sniper, Sandra’s ex-boyfriend and a would-be mass murderer.

Sniper and his crew are only in it for the thrills, but others want to use the chaos they can unleash to destroy their political enemies. For Jay, bringing down Sniper is mostly revenge. For Sandra, it is the only way she will ever be safe again. For everyone around them it is life and death.

Set in the near future, Timesplash is a fast-paced action thriller with a completely original take on time travel. Filled with great characters, Timesplash takes Jay and Sandra on a wild ride through a world already on the edge.

A Kindle best-seller, Timesplash is the first book in a unique and highly acclaimed time travel series.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07D8ZJBQC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canta Libre; 3rd edition (July 1, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2655 KB
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Graham Storrs was raised in the city of Hull in Yorkshire, England. He studied psychology there and at the University of Surrey in Guildford before embarking on a career in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction research. Later in life, he specialised in software design and his career took him from the UK to Switzerland and, eventually, Australia, where he now lives in a rural idyll with his wife Christine and a Tonkinese cat called Minsky.

Graham has always been a writer and published a large number of non-fiction pieces (including three children's science books) before focusing his energies on fiction. 2008 was a breakthrough year for him when he had his first science fiction short story accepted for publication. Since then he has sold many more stories and his début novel - a sci-fi thriller called Timesplash - was published in 2010 and became a best-seller. It was later released by Pan Macmillan/Momentum along with two sequels - True Path and Foresight - both shortlisted for an Aurealis Award. He has published a total of twenty novels and three short story collections.

Graham continues to write science fiction and is an avid reader of the genre. He is also the author of the Luke Kelly crime series. He devotes most of his time to writing now.

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Janet Samuels

Engaging, Unique Science Fiction Story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2012

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I would give this 4 to 4.5 stars. The story starts in 2047 when Sniper is doing a "timesplash" with Patty and 2 male friends. A "timesplash" occurs when people are "lobbed" back in time (they are referred to as "bricks") and do something that creates a paradox (e.g. you kill your own grandma). While the past rights itself back to the original timeline, the effect of righting those changes creates chaos in the present day - thus creating the "timesplash". Also, the "bricks" are not supposed to be in this previous timeline and are automatically pulled back into their own time after a few hours or so. Timesplashing is viewed as a rebellious, extreme sport in 2047 when the book opens. However, Sniper's timesplash is further back than anyone else has gone (65 years) and, as the summary notes, it causes problems. The book seems to have almost 3 parts to it. First is in 2047 when Sniper's timesplash occurs and we see Sniper, Patty and Jay. The second part of the book seems to focus much more on Jay and his efforts to hunt down timesplashers - I think that much of this seems to occur in 2049. The third and final part of the book takes place in 2050 and involves Patty (now going by her real name of Sandra) and Jay trying to hunt down Sniper and prevent a devastating timesplash.

Things I liked about the book: It was fairly easy to pick up on "timesplashing" and the rules of time travel in the book. The author didn't overwhelm you with scientific jargon but did get the main points across. The book was well-written without many grammatical or editing errors. The characters were fully realized and not "perfect" stereotypes of people. Even Sniper and his electrical engineering helper, Klaatu, had some various dimensions to them. Finally, and most importantly, it was an imaginative, engrossing story. Overall this book kept my interest and I wanted to see what happened next in Patty/Sandra & Jay's quest to stop Sniper.

Weaker parts of the book: I got a bit lost on the timing of stuff. Jay seemed to imply in the second part of the book that it had been 2.5 years since the incident with Sniper's timesplash. So that would at least make it mid-2049. However, in the third part of the book, it seemed like much more time had passed from the second part (mid-2049) to the third part (supposedly 2050). For example, Patty/Sandra had done all kinds of training in guns and other weapons. So I felt somewhat confused as to whether the timeline really made sense. Also, while the ending of the book is self-contained (e.g. no big cliffhanger ending!), it seemed to wrap everything up too quickly at the end and then was really open as to what is in store for Patty/Sandra and Jay. Finally, some of the items in the book didn't seem to add any real purpose or were a little confusing. For example, the whole discussion of post-adjustment America now being run by the "Lord's True Path" Party - I had no idea what this added. Also, the book seemed to imply at the beginning that timesplashers did it for the high of the timesplash and their rebellious spirit. But then in the second and third parts of the book, there seemed the implication that it was being done on behalf of terrorists. I never really bought into how/why the big timesplashers would go from highs at something similar to a rave to working with terrorist organizations.

Overall, this was an enjoyable, engaging science fiction book. Do keep in mind that it was written by a U.K. author. So American readers need to be aware of certain terminology differences (e.g. a "torch" is a flashlight).

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Kimberly Llewellyn

Great new twist on time travel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2012

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First off, love the title. I downloaded Graham Storrs¡¯ Timesplash through a free offering on Amazon.

It¡¯s 2047, and the world has changed. Big time. There¡¯s been a worldwide depression, coined ¡°The Great Adjustment¡±, and young people have found a new form of entertainment ¡ª time travel. Timesplashing has become the rave parties of the future. The ¡°bricks,¡± or time travellers, are ¡°lobbed¡± into the past to create a paradox; say, killing your own grandmother before you were born. I know, sick, right? No, not the ¡°sick¡± my teenagers use to describe a new video game ¨C the boring, old-fashioned sick. The timeline always smooths itself out and history is never changed so no harm, no foul, right? Not quite.

What do the splash partiers get out of it? After the deed is done and the bricks yanked back to the present, the fun begins. The drug-fueled splash partiers get to experience the backwash, where time and space shift in the present while time rights itself. The bricks become rockstars ¡ª picture Guns ¡®n Roses in the 80¡äs or The Rolling Stones in the ¡¯70¡äs.

While timesplashing is illegal, ¡°the man¡± doesn¡¯t really worry about it too much ¡ª until it starts being used as a tool for terrorism and whole cities begin to crumble in the backwash. As technology advances and the bricks are lobbed further and further into the past, devastating paradoxes erupt in the timeline resulting in the annihilation of the present.

Mr. Storrs has wrapped a political thriller, love story, and sci-fi novel into one neat package. Throw in espionage, a depraved psychopathic brick bent on becoming a timeplashing legend, and insecure young love ¡ª voil¨¤! ¡ª you have Timesplash.

The main protagonists, a young couple in over their heads and haunted by their pasts, set out to stop a plot to destroy a major european city. Their determination and bravery, despite self-doubt, insecurity and fear make them easy to connect and sympathise with.

This book is fast-paced and gritty. There is a good share of violence, balanced by a very sweet, innocent love story. The characters are engaging and likeable (or hate-able), the narration and dialogue edgy and real. I could almost hear those British accents we Americans love so much.

Although there was quite a bit of technology discussed, (It is sci-fi, after all. I hate it when people complain about having to read about science and technology in a sci-fi novel) it didn¡¯t overwhelm or bore me. Mr. Storrs does not go into a lot of Post Adjustment political detail, but the hints thrown in here and there are intriguing. I can definitely see global politics ending up exactly where the author places it in Timesplash.

I really enjoyed this book ¨C especially the actual timesplashing scenes ¡ª I wish the author could have woven a few more of them in throughout the book. All sci-fi/time travel fans should add Timesplash to their collection and keep Mr. Storrs on their watch list.

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Brenda Telford

A different but intriguing take on Time Travel!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2015

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It was 2047 and fifteen year old “Patty” was having the time of her life. She was about to embark on a new timesplash with her boyfriend Sniper and two of his friends. But stuck up high in the cage with the chanting of hundreds of young people below, she suddenly knew she didn’t want to go through with it. Sniper wasn’t having a bar of it though; ignoring her fears while the countdown went on. Suddenly she was weightless, flying through the blackness and terrified she was going to die…

Jay was only nineteen but in the years since he’d lost his best friend at the timesplash party when it had all gone wrong, he’d joined forces with a team who were determined to stop Sniper and the timesplashing – the time travel was now being used as a terrorist weapon and one disaster was following another, with thousands dying each time.

Sandra had escaped the facility which had held her since that terrible night the timesplash had gone wrong – her paranoia, terror and nightmares were there with her always. But she knew she needed to find Sniper – he was the only one who could allay her fears; give her back her life again. With the police after her, Sandra met up with Jay and together they joined forces to locate Sniper before he created the biggest disaster in history. But could it happen? Was Sniper crazy; would he succeed in his horrific plan?

Timesplash by Aussie author Graham Storrs is a very different take on time travel – filled with tension and very fast paced, the plot is intriguing as well as gruesome (but not “in your face”) There are good guys and bad guys, and the entertainment level is high. Recommended for lovers of science fiction and time travel.

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Pedro R

Great time travelling angle, fun reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 8, 2015

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Fantastic series, couldn't wait to read all the books, which I did, one after the other with little pause. Parts are not as well written or perhaps it's just because they feel farfetched but the overall theme and story is great. Lots of action and intrigue, and very easy to get yourself immersed.

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SteveF

Great pace and a truly different view on timetravel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 4, 2013

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I just loved this. Time travel with a twist. Great storytelling.
I enjoyed the writing style, far too many novels are simply badly written, either stilted or overly flowery. Time Splash just flows.
The plot is very different to other time travel stories I've read and held me to the end.
Thoroughly recommended. Just off to buy the next in the series.

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Carole_S

Intriguing terrorist plot.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 20, 2012

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In the aftermath of the "death of oil" a couple of students discover a means of time travel. Because nation states are occupied in dealing with the catastrophe , called the "Great Adjustment", it is left to private individuals to develop and exploit the technology. They quickly find that going back in time is like lobbing a brick into the still waters of reality, warping cause and effect in ripple like disturbances. At first this merely is amusing to the participants, but when people go further back in time and create causal paradoxes such as shooting their own grandmother, the consequences become deadly to all. The time travellers become more dangerous than nuclear weapons...........

I enjoyed reading this book very much. I found the protagonists to be believable individuals and the effects of time travel to be plausible. I particularly liked (and at the same time was disturbed by) the portrayal of the post-adjustment USA. The author never delved into the arcane mysteries of the underpinning technologies and the story was much better for it. I'll look forward to more from this author.

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Steve R

Stick with it . . .

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 31, 2012

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Firstly, I'm not going to spoil your reading by giving you the plot, like many reviewers!

As a hardened Sci-Fi and Fantasy nut, I enjoy a good easy read, where the story flows, the characters are well penned and I can escape into the story . . . so what about Timesplash? Well starting to read it, I wondered what I had got into! I found the first part hard going, mainly because the author appeared to be setting out to use specific age group slang . . . however, fighting through that I found the book developing into a futuristic sci-fi detective type novel and gained in readability and gripping me as a reader as a result. Fortunately it didn't follow the modern trend of following everyone day by day to make an over long tone and rattled along at a good pace. The characters were interesting and were developed well through the book to a depth suitable for their appearences and importance.

So the downs - the start, took some getting through, but that could just be old me!, in the story, there are gaps which needed filling, some were, some weren't. I liked the ending and it along with the gaps could lead to a follow up or even a series as the whole concept of lobbing bricks back into time could be developed, along with the main characters. I would look forward to there being a sequel and would recommend it as a summer read.

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Booleanboy

Time travel with consequences

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 20, 2012

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This book is based upon a premise common in Science Fiction - that in the relatively near future it will be possible to travel back in time. The interesting twist is that this technology is developed and exploited not by governments but by ultimate thrill-seekers.

The spice in this - slightly hammy - sandwich is that such travel has consequences. The further back in time the target date, the more power needed to make the trip and the more repercussions travel forward to the present day. As the edgy villain and his team of 'Techs' darken into anarchic terrorists they plan to go a loooong way back.

Timesplash entertains with its ideas and characters but the writing that carries the reader between the oft flashed-back scenes would benefit from extensive revision and honing to remove the literary lumps. Nevertheless I enjoyed the book so it scrapes up to 4 stars from me.

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