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Time Aerials: A Time Travel Diversion Kindle Edition

by Russell Kightley (Author, Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
A dying man's life flashes past as science fiction stories created by his panicked brain. Trying to make sense of its imminent demise, the brain spins tales of monster flies, and time machines, and weird factories, and a library of unreachable books. As it fights to stay in the past, forever circling its final moments, the dementing organ casts itself as The Great Mind, a god-like entity at the end of time. This Sum of the Dead resets a repeatedly breaking universe, trying to put things right. The Time Aerials are its own tree-like brain cells whose fractal branches leak into time and create consciousness itself. But the brain, like all artists, leaves clues and conceits and signatures hidden in plain sight...

This is metafiction and the brain’s an unreliable narrator. Perhaps the book’s an instruction manual, maybe one of many...
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    June 21, 2015
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I have been a scientific illustrator since 1981. I worked at Stanford University in the early 80s and studied Electronic Arts at the Australian National University. I also made medical documentaries. www.scientific.pictures

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0105MKQBA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Russell Kightley
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 21, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.4 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 316 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0994370419
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Russell Kightley

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Russell Kightley's books are philosophical science fiction with a slice of satire and a twist of time travel. Often, they explore the nature of consciousness and reality. He lives in Canberra, the capital of Australia, with his wife, an astrophysicist, and his younger daughter, a science student. His elder daughter is a model.

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  • Michael Click
    5.0 out of 5 stars A heady read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2019
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    This a fun but twisted read. It has more ideas than half a dozen books mashed together. I just wish this was a paper copy. Then I could see if the words resets need themselves as in the book. Hee hee!
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  • AmazonCustomer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing!! I want more!!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018
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    Love it!! I could not put it down!!!
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  • Amazon Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Well written unusal kinda boring.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2016
    I didn't feel like there was a story I could relate to here. A mish mash of well written short stories strung together with an unusual take on time travel is what you'll find. The whole thing gets old though. I finished it, but just wanted it to be over.
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  • Mr. Phillip W. Berrie
    4.0 out of 5 stars What if time was like a piece of string that had knots in it?
    Reviewed in Australia on August 17, 2015
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    This is a novel that explores the subject of consciousness, deep time and time travel.

    What if time wasn't infinite? What if it was a limited resource that could run out? What if time was like a piece of string that had knots in it? Well, Great Minds think alike is all I can say to that without being too spoilerish.

    This book has a single story arc that binds together a number of vignettes that contain some novel ideas in what to me is a well-travelled genre: time travel. The author iterates his way through these ideas in a number of humorous and innovative ways and there is a lot here to like considering it is a debut novel.

    On a technical level, the prose in this book is excellent though obviously strongly influenced by the author's joint Australian and English heritage, which some readers might find a little unfamiliar at first. Overall I thought the story idea was good, however, I thought it lost some focus about two thirds of the way through the book and the ending left too many unanswered questions for my taste.

    An author to keep an eye on.

    Caveat: I know the author and I worked professionally on an earlier version of this book.
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