Time Rep: Volume 1
Peter Ward
Jun 2013 · Diversion Books
3.3star
3 reviews
Ebook
272
Pages
About this ebook
The world’s most insignificant person is the perfect fit for a very odd job . . . that just might require him to save time and space as we know it.
Geoffrey Stamp has always had a bit of a self-esteem problem. But it doesn’t help to be told that he’s in fact the most inconsequential human being who’s ever lived. Or that even certain types of mushrooms have more significance in the order of things. Or that Geoffrey is the perfect definition of a nobody. And all this from a complete stranger no less. A stranger who claims to have dropped in from the year 3050 to offer Geoffrey, precisely because of his outsized irrelevance, a job too good to be true.
As a Time Rep, Geoffrey will be a vacation tour guide to the twenty-first century, showing wide-eyed tourists from the future all the sights and sounds of our quaint, archaic millennium. But when Geoffrey uncovers a conspiracy to change the course of history, he is sent on a mind-bending adventure through time and space involving an imaginary lake, a talking seagull, dinosaurs, aliens, the Great Fire of London, and the discovery that he might not be as insignificant as people thought.
“Peter Ward’s Time Rep is a quick, entertaining read and proves, once and for all, there just might be a reason to play video games for hours on end.” —SFFWORLD
Geoffrey Stamp has always had a bit of a self-esteem problem. But it doesn’t help to be told that he’s in fact the most inconsequential human being who’s ever lived. Or that even certain types of mushrooms have more significance in the order of things. Or that Geoffrey is the perfect definition of a nobody. And all this from a complete stranger no less. A stranger who claims to have dropped in from the year 3050 to offer Geoffrey, precisely because of his outsized irrelevance, a job too good to be true.
As a Time Rep, Geoffrey will be a vacation tour guide to the twenty-first century, showing wide-eyed tourists from the future all the sights and sounds of our quaint, archaic millennium. But when Geoffrey uncovers a conspiracy to change the course of history, he is sent on a mind-bending adventure through time and space involving an imaginary lake, a talking seagull, dinosaurs, aliens, the Great Fire of London, and the discovery that he might not be as insignificant as people thought.
“Peter Ward’s Time Rep is a quick, entertaining read and proves, once and for all, there just might be a reason to play video games for hours on end.” —SFFWORLD
Ratings and reviews
3.3
3 reviews
About the author
Peter Ward was born in London in 1980. He was educated at William Torbitt Primary School and Ilford Country High School in Essex, before studying English Literature at the University of Southampton.
He started writing his first book Time Rep in 2002, which took six years to complete. He then left it in a drawer for three years before putting the first draft of it on the internet in 2011. After being downloaded 60,000 times and receiving (mostly) positive reviews, he thought it would be wise to approach a literary agent. This led to a new and improved draft of Time Rep being published by Diversion Books in 2013. A German translation is due later in the year through Piper Verlag GmbH. He began writing his second book Note to Self just as Time Rep was being completed in 2008. The final draft was completed in February 2013 and is due to be published by Diversion Books later this year.
He lives in London with his partner Lucy and a very small cat.
He started writing his first book Time Rep in 2002, which took six years to complete. He then left it in a drawer for three years before putting the first draft of it on the internet in 2011. After being downloaded 60,000 times and receiving (mostly) positive reviews, he thought it would be wise to approach a literary agent. This led to a new and improved draft of Time Rep being published by Diversion Books in 2013. A German translation is due later in the year through Piper Verlag GmbH. He began writing his second book Note to Self just as Time Rep was being completed in 2008. The final draft was completed in February 2013 and is due to be published by Diversion Books later this year.
He lives in London with his partner Lucy and a very small cat.
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