Time Stamp - Erith, James

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Résumé :
The year is 2058. When genius holiday modeller Bert falls for Nina's libertine charms, he senses that the Elite - the rulers of the one world system, known as IState - may have tricked the world into a technological, transhuman existence by way of the stunning hive mind called the Singularity. But the Singularity is missing something that even he cannot recreate in his high-tech laboratories; the spirit and joy of truly living. Freedom, he discovers, is now an illusion to all but the minority who manage the countryside. As the Elites set out to coerce the remaining free humans into the hive-mind of the Singularity, Nina vanishes after a brutal encounter with authority. Stunned, Bert clones himself and, along with Tor, a spunky farming girl, they plot an extraordinary journey back in time to secretly disrupt the past in order to sort out the future. Bert aims for the 1990's, the beginning of the computer age, but they end up in a time where the humble postage stamp is the biggest tech around... Thoroughly entertaining, thought provoking, hilarious and horribly resonant with our time, Time Stamp is an absolute blockbuster of alternative storytelling.

Biographie:
James lived in London where he was a journalist before moving to North Yorkshire with his young family, and a large, blind, rust-coloured sausage dog called Rigby. These days, James writes day and night, fire-fighting his household and saving his now smaller Datsies from badger holes.A keen cold-water swimmer and general health enthusiast, James works in a cabin by his swimming pond and has been known to emerge for school talks and the occasional lecture.Find out more by joining James's author newsletter which you can get to at his website, jameserith.com where you'll find an exclusive version of the entire series in one big ebook.James does do social media but, in his own words, 'it's rarely' and 'pretty badly'. If you do find him lurking on any of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or any others, send him a message to get back to his books.His latest work, Healing Pond is the story of recovery after snapping his Achilles tendon while attempting, calamitously, to build a swimming pond. Release Nov 2022.