Time Lines is Karen’s latest release and here she explains its origins:
‘In the sixties there was a programme called The Time Tunnel, which ran from 1966 to 1967. My Dad and I used to watch it together and I was entranced at the concept, and the adventures and situations the characters found themselves in.
I’ve seen many films and tv series since, but it’s those earlier one’s where technology was based on an imagined future where equipment was bulky and large, that interested me most.
When I came to write Time Lines, I wanted something that was simple without the of aid of modern-day technology. Back in the sixties and seventies, they had consoles with large buttons, and knobs with cabinets holding large reels of old-fashioned tape recorders. At the time is looked futuristic and technical.
I wanted Time Lines story to have that kind of a feel to it. The story has a ‘travel room’ that is just a black space with a seat in the centre for the traveller. The technician sits in another room in front of a console with buttons. He watches the travellers heat signature on a large screen mounted to the wall. He sees is a green criss-cross lines on a dark background, a bit like the old computers used to be.
My story tells of Julie travelling back to the past and to wartime Poland. She is there to collect visual evidence of past atrocity. Normally, it’s a straightforward assignment, only this time things go wrong. Julie finds herself in a situation that she has never experienced before, and it is terrifying.
I hope you will accompany Julie on her journey and download the book to take this ride with her.”
Along with Time Lines, here are a few vintage time travel stories that you may like.
Thank you for posting this. It was interesting to write, both the article and book. We’d have never guessed back in those days at how much technology would change. It’s fascinating to look back to see how they thought the future would be.
Yep, just like Star Trek. Some say that the government already uses teleportation technology. We’ll never know. lol.