Book Review: The Timelost by Chris Turner.



• Human vs Alien
  A pilot stranded on a faraway planet, Timelost. An alien seeking symbiosis.
  

  Visceral alien battles, planetary wars. Experience the adventure...along with edge-of-

  the-seat SF audio in this Star Wars meets Alien thriller.

  In 2014, I started sequencing original SFF to audio using the Booktrack free studio

  tool, and it offered up a unique, creative experience. I was amazed at how the placement

  of some well-crafted audio, synced by word, sentence or paragraph could make a story

  come alive—in the same way a soundtrack makes a movie come alive. To date, I have

  produced a few dozen, text-and-audio renditions of my stories, drawing on the wide

  variety of sound clips from the Booktrack audio library.

  The Timelost, my most recent production, is a gritty, dystopian foray into the

  macabre.

  The world-building was intense, as I tried to incorporate elements of ‘galactic

  empire’, the theme of ‘a few struggling against many’, and extraordinary alien

  adversaries. I also wanted to develop the concept that an ordinary person, the pilot Miko,

  when plunged into a hostile, colonized, or uncolonized world with chilling advanced

  alien technology, could become a hero. And not just by circumstance.

  The movie Prometheus, even though I had seen it after writing The Timelost, deeply

  moved me and confirmed my fascination with a SciFi, man-vs-alien conflict. Human and

  alien genesis theories intertwine as the characters scramble to survive many bizarre and

  unexpected hostile encounters. The story took on overtones of fantasy horror as it gained

  momentum, with elements not dissimilar to the Cthulhu mythos a la Lovecraft and the

  imaginative works of R.E. Howard.

  I invite you to enter Miko’s distorted world in The Timelost. The Booktrack text-and-

  audio based format thrusts the reader into the terrifying unknown of planets of deep

  space.

  Booktrack: http://bit.ly/2EhEfFH

  Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Timelost-Chris-Turner-ebook/dp/B079D5FBVS