TimeSplash [Kindle Edition]

Graham Storrs (Author)

Book Description

An exciting, fast-paced time-travel thriller from science fiction writer Graham Storrs.

In the year 2050, London is on the verge of destruction. A thrill-seeker calling himself Sniper is about to jump back in time to create a time paradox. It's called timesplashing. It is exciting, dangerous, and the people who do it love every moment. Best of all, it doesn't change a thing - except in the present. When the acausal backwash from the splash hits the present, all hell breaks loose. Make a big enough timesplash, far enough back, and it can devastate a whole city.

Once, timesplashing was an extreme sport and an excuse for a big party. Then Sniper took it too far. People started dying. Sandra and Jay are two people whose lives were shattered in a timesplash that went badly wrong in 2047. Now they are hunting the timesplashers - each in their own way - and if they don't find them, millions could die.

Product Details

• File Size: 541 KB
• Print Length: 298 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Graham Storrs (August 20, 2011)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005IC6C6G
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,767 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Hold on for a wild ride February 20, 2010

By George Angus

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I downloaded this book after contacting the author on Twitter (One of the many reasons I love Twitter). From the very first scene, I knew this was going to be something special. The concept of a TimeSplash is incredibly creative and the author uses just the right amount of vivid description to put the reader right in the middle of the action.

The characters are active and robust. They are developed through story, as they should be. I found myself cheering for Sandra and Jay as they faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

In short, this book is a great read.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, fast paced book February 27, 2010

By J.F.Penn

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The timesplash is a brilliant concept. Human bricks are lobbed back in time, the further they go, the bigger the mess - especially if the bad guys kill their own grandmas. The backwash is how the present is effected by the convolutions of time sorting itself out, and this can destroy cities if the lob is far enough. Sniper is an evil brick who wants to perform the greatest timesplash, essentially a time terrorist attack in London by assassinating Lenin before the becomes important. Can he be stopped in time?
Great book in terms of the fantastic timesplash idea and the pacing, although some of the characters were a bit stereotypical and 2 dimensional. Bad guys bad, good guys good, bad guys sadomasochists, good guys romantic... and I think the ending could have been a bit more open ended, leaving a potential sequel in the works.... but generally, a great fast read with some excellent ideas.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun Read January 22, 2012

By greg

Format:Kindle Edition

Nice variation of the time travel story. This is a fast paced thriller with an engaging plot line. Some premises stretch credulity (even for sci fi) like a 19 year old girl who's spent her short life as a drug user and groupie magically becomes a gun wielding, ninja like fighter. Found the teenage love angst a bit tedious and awkward at times. Overall a fun read and engaging story - couldn't put it down.

More About the Author

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 an Airedale terrier called Bertie.

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 debut novel - a sci-fi thriller called TimeSplash - was published in 2010.

Graham continues to write "hard" science fiction and is an avid reader of the genre. He devotes most of his time to writing now. He is an active blogger and Twitter enthusiast (where he goes by the tag @graywave - why not drop him a line?) He is also a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books.