Wireless in the Fabric of Time by E. I. Johnson
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- Pub. Date: January 2007
- Publisher: Inkwater Press
- Format: Paperback, 344pp
- ISBN-13: 9781592992393
- ISBN: 1592992390
Synopsis
He sees the wireless world as his lifeline. Even as he sleeps, he stays connected, with his Bluetooth headset device attached to his ears. Being awakened by late-night text or IM's is the expected norm. When Von doesn't have access to his electronics, he feels cut off from the internet... the only world he knows.
His love of technology is the common thread between his youth and his future as a securities analyst specializing in software technologies. All he needs to do to graduate college and start his "real" life is e-mail the final draft of his thesis to his professor... But in a strange twist of fate, the tangled nest of cables in his dorm room short-circuits, causing his hand-held scanner to open a portal of time into which he is zapped along with his BlackBerry PDA, video-phone, and iPod.
When he awakens, he is accused of murder. The time is 1908, the Edwardian era. The place is Exeter College, Oxford University, England: the upper-crust, well-bred, aristocratic, the oldest British university. Von has made a hundred-year jump back to a time when cell-phone towers, broadband, and wi-fi technology have not even been conceived.
Wireless's story line intertwines with an adventurous plot, a twist to everyday lives that adds fantasy and thrills, and explores the effects of the dark side of technology on a promising young man. Wireless is a science fiction adventure novel that will resonate universally with teens, young adults, and those who understand the love of technology.
Biography
E. I. Johnson lives in Casey Key, Florida. The author's first novel was Life Doesn't Rewind: in the Rice Paper World, which is yet to be published. Many scenes in Wireless come from real experience, but as all writers do, E. I. Johnson has re-imagined them for drama, emotion, and relevance to the story.
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Wireless in the Fabric of Timeby Anonymous
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February 12, 2007: I enjoyed this time travel thriller with its myriad plot twists. It is a fast paced story set in the near future. I couldn't put it down! E. I. Johnson writes knowledgeably about the interests and lives of college students. The story is oriented both to people who enjoy time travel stories and to people (especially young men) who use technology with ease. The author's sense of humor shows through, too, in describing a young man's time travel experiences through wireless technology which works especially well in a bathroom. The book should be on the birthday and Christmas wishlist of every young man.
Wireless in the Fabric of Timeby Anonymous
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January 07, 2007: ?Wireless in the Fabric of Time? is one of the most impressive and emotionally wrenching YA books I've had the pleasure to read. The character of Von Muir Carmichael and his best friend is as real as any college student I've run into recently. Yes, it is time-travel of a sort. Von is somehow transported to the past through his handheld scanner device, and Sir Oliver Robert, his newfound friend during the Edwardian era in England, is a masterful, albeit heart-rending character. Von Muir Carmichael can't wait to graduate college and have an adult life. He'd love to just get away from college life and start his new job as a security analyst specializing in software tech. But an assemblage of tangled wires lying in his dorm room short circuit causing his electronic device to malfunction and takes him to 1908 London England. Von, of course, would rather this whole thing be just a ?nightmare? because the alternative seems to be insanity. But when his 'nightmare' start giving him accurate answers about things he's never heard of, then all bets are off. E. I. Johnson used the literary technique of magical realism, the author brings readers a serious tale of friendship, redemption, justice, lost love, family values and modern technology. Johnson?s novel Wireless ?incorporates mysticism steeped in the protagonist 1908 time travel to Exeter College, Oxford University, England.
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