The lovely Lisa at Writing in the Buff hosts Book Blurb Friday. Each week Lisa posts a pretend book cover to fire our imaginations. Our task is to write the book blurb for the back cover in 150 words or less.
Fatal Error  06:44 August 6th 1945 724th iteration *** DOES NOT COMPUTE *** FATAL ERROR *** RESTART *** 08:15 August 6th 2311 725th iteration *** WARP DRIVE ENGAGED*** WARNING - FEED BACK CRITICAL ***FATAL ERROR*** Dr John Hayman, project manager and chief analyst on the Terran Warp Drive programme regains consciousness in a bedroom at 06:44 on August 6th 1945 in downtown Hiroshima. His last conscious act was hitting the abort button in the test flight command centre orbiting the earth. Aki Yoshida energises her Marconi radiotelegraph on which she had been experimenting in her Hiroshima bedroom, and finds herself thrown across the deck of a space station 365 years later. With the energy of the feedback loop increasing exponentially at every iteration, John has 91 minutes to break the loop before Hiroshima is destroyed and, sooner or later, the universe with it. |
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Nice connection between past and future, Dom. Fatal errors aren't always on computers.
ReplyDeletelike it :)
ReplyDeleteI like the way the events connect to each other across time!
ReplyDeleteGreat blurb.
History intertwined with sci-fi...How clever!
ReplyDeleteGreat connections, looking at time through errors, things not done. Good to see your name again, Dom.
ReplyDeleteI like the back and forth of history and future-now what happens next?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you put in your tea, Dom? There must be something! You always dream up such thought provoking blurbs. The time limit you've employed promises suspense and action. This is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWow. It's da bomb, as they say. Love those loops. You have an amazing mind.
ReplyDeleteThe horror of Hiroshima revisited from the future. This would be a page turner and I was ready to continue reading as I finished that blurb. Do write.
ReplyDeleteOoops, my first comment didn't save. What a great idea for a book. I hope that the hero can get things fixed within his timeframe. I can only imagine how freaked out the woman is!
ReplyDeleteKathy M.
This is brilliant, Dom...a gripping and viable premise for a book! I'd love to read more....
ReplyDeleteI'm always impressed with your book blurbs. This one is no exception. :O)
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