COMPLETE THE CIRCLE - the e-novel
by Roger Hartopp
NEWS: I have now made getting through the book easier by posting at the end of each chapter the link to the next!
NOW, IF YOU HAVE JUST DISCOVERED THIS BOOK, and you are in a mood for a bit of reading, here's a little background to what it's about:
(If you have joined us for the next chapter, then click on the link on the menu on the right for the chapter to join.)
Time travel is not going to be invented.
by Roger Hartopp
NEWS: I have now made getting through the book easier by posting at the end of each chapter the link to the next!
NOW, IF YOU HAVE JUST DISCOVERED THIS BOOK, and you are in a mood for a bit of reading, here's a little background to what it's about:
(If you have joined us for the next chapter, then click on the link on the menu on the right for the chapter to join.)
Time travel is not going to be invented.
It is just going to happen.
BOOTSTRAP PARADOX: Also known as an ONTOLOGICAL PARADOX.
A paradox created when someone from the future travels back in time to pass on an object, information, or themselves to someone in the past, who then uses what has been passed to them in order to create that very situation in the future that allows that person to travel back in time with that object, information, or themselves to that same individual in the past…
And David Lutman is going to be an innocent player, with devastating consequences.
But is there a way to break a loop that will essentially be repeated again and again with no apparent end and with devastating consequences every time? Is it even possible to change events if you already have the knowledge on how to do so?
This is what David Lutman is going to find out as the unwitting victim of the bootstrap paradox.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "By His Bootstraps" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein that plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel. It is from this story that the term 'bootstrap paradox' comes from. "By His Bootstraps" refers to the expression "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps". This short story was originally published in the October 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald. It was reprinted in Heinlein's 1959 collection, The Menace From Earth and in several subsequent anthologies,[1] and is now available in at least two audio editions. Under the title "The Time Gate", it was also included in a 1958 Crest paperback anthology, "Race to the Stars".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "By His Bootstraps" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein that plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel. It is from this story that the term 'bootstrap paradox' comes from. "By His Bootstraps" refers to the expression "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps". This short story was originally published in the October 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald. It was reprinted in Heinlein's 1959 collection, The Menace From Earth and in several subsequent anthologies,[1] and is now available in at least two audio editions. Under the title "The Time Gate", it was also included in a 1958 Crest paperback anthology, "Race to the Stars".
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Welcome to my first novel, which I am going to be publishing chapter by chapter on this blog (and maybe, in the future, turn it into an e-book, unless I am extremely fortunate to have a publisher).
The whole story has completed as a draft, and what I will publish here will be effectively that draft.
Indeed, I may go back to earlier chapters from time to time to correct errors in continuity, grammar, or for other reasons.
So it is not going to be perfect – indeed, as an author from the UK, I am sure my American readers will be happy to point out flaws in dialogue and culture that may occur as my American characters come into play, so please let me know about them and how to correct them in the comments boxes after each chapter!
So it is not going to be perfect – indeed, as an author from the UK, I am sure my American readers will be happy to point out flaws in dialogue and culture that may occur as my American characters come into play, so please let me know about them and how to correct them in the comments boxes after each chapter!
Pardon the pun, but telling this story will take time.
Click on the links on the right, or scroll down the page for the latest chapter.
So over the next few weeks and months, enjoy the story!
Roger Hartopp
TO BEGIN THE STORY, CLICK HERE.
But do read on first...
Do you like this blog? If you are studying English as a second language, then check out my other blog at tsmsinenglish.blogspot.com. It deals with typical student mistakes in English with examples and how to correct them. It's fun, written in an easy, casual prose, and plenty of cartoons!
TO BEGIN THE STORY, CLICK HERE.
But do read on first...
Do you like this blog? If you are studying English as a second language, then check out my other blog at tsmsinenglish.blogspot.com. It deals with typical student mistakes in English with examples and how to correct them. It's fun, written in an easy, casual prose, and plenty of cartoons!
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