Science Fantasy Romance 6 - Time Travel...Laterally!

Time Travel...Laterally!

SF006

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Blurb

A hot summer day, a group of bored teenagers, and a time machine that runs on pure bull turns out to be the recipe for a disastrous trip past the future. If by “disastrous trip”, you mean “Adventure!”

Memories

before reading

I wrote this story while I was testing a voice recognition software, but when the software turned out to be horrible, I transcribed it myself. Once I’d left out all the ums and ers, and cleaned up a few sentences that got lost in the rambles, it was surprisingly clean. I only remember adding in one paragraph, in re: the ‘time travel spindle’, because I’m bad at describing machinery impromptu. So, if you want to read how I talk when I’m just bullsh*tting my way through a story, here’s your chance...and mine!

Review

after reading

I like how the 16-year-old protagonist and first-person viewpoint character is actually writing the story, and how I added a lot of little ‘writer-touches’ in to reflect his character voice. There’s some good stuff in here, and this counts as YA. One part suffers from a mild case of Info-Dump fever, though. Sorry about that. All in all, though, it’s a solid character-based story, and that’s Science Fantasy Romance.

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Cosmast Rhyt 

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Science Fantasy Romance 5 - Ernie Centrifuge, Private Eye

Ernie Centrifuge, Private Eye 

SF005

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Blurb

Ernie Centrifuge has to pick up the case where his murdered boss left off, but to save the girl he’ll have to find his selves first.

Memories

before reading

Years ago, I wrote a ridiculously long (and terrible) version of this story while wine-drunk at a beach house, then I wrote a terrible NaNoWriMo novel-length version of it. I burned them. Once I started my Second Better Million, I rescued the characters from the fire and wrote this story. Later on, for whatever reason, I used the same character names for different characters and wrote The Tisroc Series. I’m still a little sketchy on how that happened, but whatever. It’s quite possible that “Ernie Centrifuge” is my very first (surviving) character name, so let’s see what he’s up to. Let’s read!

Review

after reading

This story is kinda cheesy, or corny, or corn with cheese on, which is delicious. I think this is the first story where I just let my love of dialogue roam free and followed it around while it did stuff and amused me. This is a very silly story, but it’s acceptable. I really want to write a series of stories set in “LIQUOR STORE Abaissé, WINE! BEER! (& Spirits). Psychic Reading available upon request WITH PURCHASE!” now. It could be my Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon!

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Time Travel...Laterally!

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