David Ciferri's Blog - Posts Tagged "time-travel"

"Secret of the Niche" Trailer

Today the video trailer for my novel, "Here By Mistake: The Secret of the Niche" was added to Goodreads. I hope everyone will enjoy it.
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Published on December 18, 2013 15:50 Tags: book-trailer, fantasy, novel, science-fiction, time-travel, video, young-adult-fiction

The Fascination of Time Travel

One philosopher has described our enduring fascination with time travel as the very human longing to fix past mistakes. Of course, some time travel ventures into the future...
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Published on February 01, 2014 14:20 Tags: time-travel

The Langoliers

I just re-read Stephen King's novella, The Langoliers. I won't formally review it, because it is part of a larger book, Four Past Midnight, that I have not completely read. I'll just say that it's as good as I remember it, a fearsome time-travel story with memorable characters, told with consummate style.
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Published on February 09, 2014 17:35 Tags: horror, time-travel

Time-Travel Quotes

For those who enjoy mind-bending time-travel quotes (as I do), here's an interesting link:
http://www.notable-quotes.com/t/time_...
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Published on February 16, 2014 17:42 Tags: quotes, time-travel

Time-Travel Quote

"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine . . . why not do it with some style?" - Dr. Emmett Brown in the movie Back to the Future (1985).
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Published on March 02, 2014 18:17 Tags: quotes, time-travel

Mark Twain on Travel

Mark Twain said: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
Fair enough. But if conventional travel broadens a person, what does time travel do?
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Published on March 06, 2014 17:56 Tags: quotes, time-travel, travel

Travel Quote, With a Twist

According to Robert Louis Stevenson, "[t]here are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." How much more foreign is the traveler when he or she is traveling through time?
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Published on March 10, 2014 17:37 Tags: quotes, time-travel, travel

Book Giveaway

A Goodreads giveaway of five copies of Here By Mistake: The Secret of the Niche has been listed and will conclude on April 14. Good luck to all fans of time-travel fiction!
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Published on March 18, 2014 19:11 Tags: book-giveaway, science-fiction, time-travel, young-adult

Travel's Destination

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

Apply this quote to time travel. How might our outlook change if we could experience the future, or the past, for just a short while?
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Published on March 26, 2014 16:53 Tags: change-in-outlook, destination, time-travel

Book Trailer Milestone

Hi - The book trailer for "Here By Mistake: The Secret of the Niche" has reached a milestone of sorts: 300+ views on YouTube. Here's the link for those who have missed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj9-8o...
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Published on March 30, 2014 14:13 Tags: book-trailer, fantasy, science-fiction, time-travel