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Craig Vann is the proud father of three strapping sons who thankfully take after their mother, Audrey, in the looks department. They feel blessed to live in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, with its vibrant literary community.
Ticking is Craig’s first novel, and the beginning of a series. The author is steaming ahead with Ticking II: The Hawking Sequence, forthcoming soon. Thanks to the author’s son, Clark Van Alstyne, who provided the hand-drawn portrait of the author. |
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PREVIEW OF “TICKING: THE HAWKING SEQUENCE”
“Ticking: The Hawking Sequence” is the second time travel adventure of Skypilot Sewell and Zachary Burling after their historic inaugural mission to England in the year 1766.
But, their adventure immediately goes awry. The story unfolds at the theme wedding of Sky and Helena, two young lovers who traversed through time and back to be together. Invited to witness the wedding vows is family friend Sam Richter, the diplomatic agent who had volunteered to see young Skypilot safely home to Canada after his ordeal in Africa, when Sky’s parents were murdered. Now a CSIS agent, Sam is not in Fraserdale just for the wedding. He had been directed to find out more about the secretive work of the scientist, Beatrice Westover.
Also at the wedding is Alim, Beatrice's friend, colleague and milquetoast date for the evening.
Sky's aunt Beatrice has a mind-numbing mission in mind. She outlines the plan, saying that when one considers all the questions that humankind has had about its own history, many have been answered. A few, however, continue to perplex and fascinate us. She proposes a mission that she knows Sky’s missionary parents would endorse; to provide irrevocable proof that Jesus lived; that is, to travel back to Jesus’ time, find him and record him in order to prove his existence. And, Alim will travel with them; a third time traveller. But, before travelling to the ancient Middle East, the guys first have to learn the lingua franca of the time. Alim, that “kid from Palestine via the North End of Winnipeg”, teaches Sky and Zac Aramaic.
Dressed in the tunics of the ancients, the three are ready inside the K2 to fly through time. But, just as the time travel process is initiated, Beatrice's mischievous cat, Hawking, steps on the unattended computer keyboard, sending the chrononauts into a far different time and space than was intended.
Using a process called “key logging”, Beatrice traces where and when the chrononauts have gone, sort of...
Their only option is a rescue mission. Someone must follow the footsteps of Sky, Zac and Alim and bring them home within the time available.
What they see there, who they meet and what they do might be of interest to you.
Oh! Bring your goggles…
“Ticking: The Hawking Sequence” is the second time travel adventure of Skypilot Sewell and Zachary Burling after their historic inaugural mission to England in the year 1766.
But, their adventure immediately goes awry. The story unfolds at the theme wedding of Sky and Helena, two young lovers who traversed through time and back to be together. Invited to witness the wedding vows is family friend Sam Richter, the diplomatic agent who had volunteered to see young Skypilot safely home to Canada after his ordeal in Africa, when Sky’s parents were murdered. Now a CSIS agent, Sam is not in Fraserdale just for the wedding. He had been directed to find out more about the secretive work of the scientist, Beatrice Westover.
Also at the wedding is Alim, Beatrice's friend, colleague and milquetoast date for the evening.
Sky's aunt Beatrice has a mind-numbing mission in mind. She outlines the plan, saying that when one considers all the questions that humankind has had about its own history, many have been answered. A few, however, continue to perplex and fascinate us. She proposes a mission that she knows Sky’s missionary parents would endorse; to provide irrevocable proof that Jesus lived; that is, to travel back to Jesus’ time, find him and record him in order to prove his existence. And, Alim will travel with them; a third time traveller. But, before travelling to the ancient Middle East, the guys first have to learn the lingua franca of the time. Alim, that “kid from Palestine via the North End of Winnipeg”, teaches Sky and Zac Aramaic.
Dressed in the tunics of the ancients, the three are ready inside the K2 to fly through time. But, just as the time travel process is initiated, Beatrice's mischievous cat, Hawking, steps on the unattended computer keyboard, sending the chrononauts into a far different time and space than was intended.
Using a process called “key logging”, Beatrice traces where and when the chrononauts have gone, sort of...
Their only option is a rescue mission. Someone must follow the footsteps of Sky, Zac and Alim and bring them home within the time available.
What they see there, who they meet and what they do might be of interest to you.
Oh! Bring your goggles…
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Ticking: A Tale of Two Time TravellersSkypilot Sewell loves the past. It’s no surprise then, that when his brilliant inventress aunt Beatrice provides him with the opportunity to time travel, Sky is immediately on board. His best friend Zac Burling will take a little more convincing…
So begins the young men’s journey through time, space and 18th century England—where, separated from each other immediately, they meet a host of fascinating characters. Among them are people of fancy and fact, including the charming and roguish highwayman Jacques DuTemps, the beautiful Lady Rachel, and Brummbär the famous bear, as well as history’s own Henry Cavendish, the celebrated scientist and natural philosopher, and John Fielding, the ‘Blind Beak’ of London and co-founder of Britain’s first police force, the Bow Street Runners. The pair has 39 days to find each other and enjoy what history has to offer without being found out… or hanged for witchcraft. Will Sky and Zac have the wits to survive the 1700s? Can Sky really leave Helena to the history books? And how to explain their Nikes? |
Book Details318 pages
Black & White 6 x 9 inches |
ISBNsHardcover
978-1-5255-2350-2 Paperback 978-1-5255-2351-9 eBook 978-1-5255-2352-6 |
BISAC/CategoriesFIC002000
FIC028080 FIC014000 |
KeywordsHumorous
Time travel Historical action and adventure Eighteenth century adventure Young time travellers Aristocrats Humorous young adult |
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