ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas Conner was born and educated in Scotland, attended engineering college in England, and has lived in Canada since 1990. He spent his career in various levels of the automotive industry. This is his first novel.
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Born into an era where the normal mode of transport was walking, biking, tramcars or horse and cart. As a working schoolboy, in the morning delivered milk from the back of a horse drawn wagon, looked after the horse in the stables behind the local co-op store and delivered bread and bakery goods on school holidays. Just a normal upbringing in a poor family that needed any money he could bring in and everyone was supposed to contribute.
But he yearned for Saturday mornings where he lived at the local cinema watching serial matinees wondering how his heroes could escape from last weeks impending doom. He was sure Flash Gordon could free Dale Arden from the evil clutches of emperor Ming the merciless, but how? Or Buck Rogers could overthrow Killer Kane with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces. After hiding in the theatre, he would wait till the afternoon horror B movies started and watch “It came from outer space”, “The Thing from another world” and “The Creature from the Black Lagoon.” All these movies filled his fantasies along with books like John Carter of Mars, Tarzan the fearless and the Pellucidar series. The teenage years were filled with Hobbits, Rings and Mordor to feed his endless appetite for all things unearthly, unworldly and downright spooky. But then along came…women! Thrown off-track by the fascination and wonderment of the opposite sex still did not fulfill the need for the imaginary world of Science Fiction and what he could not find he made up himself in stories written for his own satisfaction or his spouse's. All this leads to the current story of a planet in peril, time travel, human upgrades with Artificial Intelligence and communication and cooperation of two diverse cultures from two different time epochs. The hope is to entertain and feed your unlimited imagination. Thanks, Tom C. www.sci-fi-retrogress.com amazon.com/author/sci-fi-retrogress.com www.thomasconnerbooks.com |