Time Rocks
by
Brian Sellars
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WELCOME:
Thank you for choosing Time Rocks. I hope you will enjoy reading it. I am grateful to pupils and teachers in the English Dept. of St Laurence’s School, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, who were kind enough to read and critique my manuscript.
Time Rocks: Young Jack Shire is blasted into a terrifying prehistoric world, simultaneously unveiling a deadly, 21st century secret, when an archaeological dig at Stonehenge turns into a nightmare. Communicating across the millennia, he and girlfriend Tori Morris, are pitted against sinister forces when they uncover a megalomaniac's plot to control the world using stolen time travel technology.
Time Rocks: is my first attempt at sci-fi for teenage and adult readers. I especially hope young adults will like it. Please let me know what you think of it – good or bad. I greatly value readers’ feedback. Writing is great fun, but being read is the coolest thing of all.
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OTHER BOOKS BY BRIAN SELLARS
The Whispering Bell:
Historical fiction for adult readers. An adventure story about an Anglo Saxon warrior’s wife, cheated out of her children, her home and her inheritance when her husband is lost in battle.
Tuppenny Hat Detective:
Bestselling, period murder mystery for adults and teenagers. I know that some adults wonder if it’s intended for them when they see that the main characters are kids. Yes it most definitely is. It’s for anyone who likes a genuine whodunit. Young or old, I bet you’ll love it.
Dance Floor Drowning. The sequel to Tuppenny Hat Detective. Three brutal murders, ten years apart. What connects them? Why is a senior police officer determined to hide the truth? What really happened under cover of an air raid that killed seventy Christmas revellers in a popular city centre pub?
Mother Goose Murders. A famous actor is accused of killing a beautiful duchess. Days later he is found brutally murdered. Billy Perks and his pals suspect his misidentification and set out to prove it. Another killing results when police ignore vital evidence. Book three in the Tuppenny Hat Detective series.
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Table of Contents
Welcome
Other books by Brian Sellars
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Glossary of Vart’s language
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Some Great Websites
Chapter One
No need for the torch. Stonehenge’s monoliths glittered against a black sky. A full moon laid down deep shadows like giant piano keys. Billions of stars twinkled. The hairs on the back of my neck tingled as I crept through the stone circle into the cathedral-like horseshoe of massive trilithons.
I stumbled on the hummocky turf and dropped my rucksack. As I grabbed to recover it the strange gizmo spilled out. It was crackling and fizzing like caged lightning. Its dim LED had transformed into a blinding blue-white beam. I had to shield my eyes.
That was when it happened. I couldn’t believe it. The moon was fading. The sky was changing from star jewelled night to pale, wintry grey. Then, the most amazing thing - my stomach flips when I think of it - the monolithic sarsen stones faded and vanished.
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