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The Reality War Book1: The Slough of Despond [Kindle Edition]

Tim C. Taylor
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In 1992, Radlan Saravanan runs a small business out of a Tudor cottage in the sleepy English village of Elstow. But Radlan was born in 2951, and when he falls in love with a local girl, he has to choose between running from his own people and condemning his lover to die.

He makes the wrong choice.

Travelling into the past, falling in love... it turns out he was meant to do these things. He's been manipulated all along, but now he's slipped his handlers, and Time is no longer following the right script. Other versions of history vie for dominance, and our reality is losing.

In 1992, Radlan Saravanan sparked The Reality War.



The second and final book in the series, The City of Destruction, will be published spring 2012.

About the Author

Tim C. Taylor lives with his family in an old village in England called Bromham. When he was a young and impressionable lad, between 1977 and 1978, several important things happened to him all at once: 2000AD, Star Wars, Blake's 7, and Dungeons & Dragons. Consequently, he now writes science fiction. Tim's short fiction has been published in a number of magazines, and most recently in Shoes, Ships & Cadavers and Further Conflicts, anthologies that featured classy authors such as Alan Moore, Lauren Beukes, and Dan Abnett. His ambition is that one day, Moore, Beukes, and Abnett will proudly write in their bios that they once shared an anthology with Tim C. Taylor. It wasn't always that way. Before a series of Doctor Who novels inspired him to start writing fiction in 2002, Tim wrote first music and then software. After twenty years in the software industry, Tim took a break in 2011, setting up Greyhart Press, an eBook publisher of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. While most of his time has been spent publishing other authors, Tim found time to complete his first two novels, a series called The Reality War, published February 2012. In the real world, he is husband, Dad, sometime-brewer, and oftentimes-builder of Lego constructs to his son's designs. His favorite beer is Uplift Ale, named in honor of SF author David Brin, and available exclusively from his garage. Find him on the web at www.timctaylor.com or on Twitter @TimCTaylor

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 658 KB
  • Print Length: 320 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1470008289
  • Publisher: Greyhart Press (7 Feb 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.ą r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0076YJZX6
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Highly Recommended 5 Mar 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
What a great read, I have just finished Book 1 and I will be checking daily to see if Book 2 has been released. An engrossing tale with good solid believable characters, the choices they make (or do they) and subsequent consequences (or realities). The concept of time-travel, paradox and alternate reality has always been mind-blowing and now a mind-blowing novel to live up to it. Hollywood check this out!

I received this novel free in return for an honest review and I have no hesitation in awarding this a well-deserved 5 stars. If you like Sci fi/time travel you will love this.
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Imagine a world run by giant lizards: lizards who wear clothes, drive cars, get married and form governments. Imagine that warm-blooded, scale-less human beings do not even exist. That is the reality which fights for existence when Raslan Saravanan, a human time traveller born in 2951 but living in the 1990s, makes a choice. The wrong choice. His decision rewrites history and allows alternative realities to become possible.

The Reality War is a time travel sci-fi novel with huge imaginative potential. Raslan meets and falls in love with a woman from 1992, and the idea of settling down and having a family with her is temptingly dangled in front of his nose. However, he tries to do his duty and return to his own time, resisting both his dream of domesticity and the unseen forces he suspects are trying to manipulate him. We follow his life and his choices, jumping backwards and forwards between different dates, different characters' perspectives, and different realities as we progress through the book.

The novel's characters are well-drawn and colourful. The "villain" of the story, Amskirk, hates Raslan with a cold venom and it is satisfying (from the reader's point of view) to see him frustrated every time things go his enemy's way. I found Raslan a sympathetic protagonist but a little spineless (intentionally so); the book's female characters are a lot more feisty.

The story is influenced in part by John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress: a Christian allegory written in the 1700s. The main character, Christian, embarks on a spiritual journey upon which, in order to reach the Celestial City (usually interpreted literally as heaven), he must choose the right path to follow, echoing Raslan's dilemma of deciding between duty and desire. The idea of the journey itself, from despair to enlightenment, is also mirrored in both books. According to Taylor's blog he does not intend to write a modern-day equivalent to Bunyan's novel, nor to write a religious story, but instead wishes to entertain his readers, interweaving a number of elements from The Pilgrim's Progress into his book along the way.

The Reality War is self-publishing writer Tim C. Taylor's first novel. The Slough Of Despond (another nod to a crucial element in The Pilgrim's Progress) is the first of two books in this series. There's currently an offer in place for readers of The Slough Of Despond to receive a link to download the second book, The City Of Destruction, for free once it becomes available. After a cliff-hanger ending to the first book (not to mention cliff-hangers at the end of almost every chapter), I'll definitely be downloading The City Of Destruction for the final instalment.
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Wow! If this is the first novel written by T.C. then roll on the next one. The Slough of Despond is a Time Travel Science fiction story with a difference. One usually reads about adventures where a person from the present time travels either to the future or to the past, but in this novel it is about future people coming to live in the present. Cleverly weaved into the story is the battle between right and wrong, or duty versus desire. The story is set in the sleepy English village of Elstow a suburb of Bedford in England where our main character Radlan Saravanan (born in 2951) runs a small business out of a Tudor cottage in 1992.

I will not spoil the plot for the reader but would like to mention that the setting in Elstow is authentic as is the description of the places Radlan visits in Bedford. I visited Elstow about 10 years ago whilst house hunting for my son and had a few drinks in the bars in Bedford described in the book. Now, having read the story, I have a desire to trace the tracks that Radlan followed and let my mind imagine the time travellers inhabiting the area. The old cottages and the bars will still be there, as will the remains of the Abbey and the church. The area is well worth a visit by the casual tourist. I have also to confess that I have started to read John Bunyan's "Pilgrims Progress".

Although I think that the novel is very well written and the story gripping I was dismayed by the inclusion of a description of Radlan making love to his girlfriend. This was not required to enhance the plot and the scene could have been glossed over. It is OK to have a passage where Radlan makes love to his girlfriend, but why give a very explicit blow by blow account of the event? This passage will upset people of a certain age and gender and should be left to the writers of pornographic literature. I hope that T.C. Taylor will rewrite this event in a more universally acceptable way when he does his first revision. Apart from this comment I congratulate the author on his fine novel and wish him all the success he deserves in the future. I shall now read the short stories T.C,Taylor has already published in Greyhart Press.
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