The 'impossibility' of time travel, touted by science, is a lie perpetrated by scientists themselves.
Quantum scientists are already travelling and manipulating Matter across Spacetime in their experiments, and Physical Reality is already changing without anyone knowing. Those changes started as subtle and local but will soon spread through Reality's infinite interconnections to become catastrophic.
In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands - then millions - will soon come to possess an entire new set of memories of the past. Memories that coexist, at first, alongside their current ones, leading to a whole new destiny and fate that is not their own.
But do those new memories recall events that actually occurred?
A&E medic Dr Nathan Carter's memories are of committing countless murders. How can he know if he is innocent or guilty? And how can he know what his Reality is, anymore?
On the run from police, he finds himself the prime suspect in a spate of abductions and serial killings. But he can't plead his innocence when blackouts leave him unable to account for his actions and flashbacks leave him with memories of the crimes.
Unknowingly caught up in one of those experiments to manipulate Reality by corrupt quantum scientists seeking the Unholy Grail of controlling Matter across Spacetime, Carter must prove his innocence - or guilt - before his arrest by the same tenacious veteran detective who'd questioned him months before when an ex-girlfriend had been found murdered in the same brutal way as the other victims - her violent death only leaving Carter doubting his sanity even more.
It is the start of a mind-bending, reality-warping journey to uncover the truth and find out what could have turned him into a killer...
Sitting on that unnerving knife-edge fulcrum between science fiction and science fact, Matter of Time questions the very definition of Space and Time, of Life and Death and of Physical Reality itself.
Science Fiction, Time Travel, Crime, Thriller
About The Author
Originally from the UK, Daniel Caine relocated to Australia and has spent the last 15 years living in a small coastal town in Victoria. "Ten kilometre stretches of secluded beach to stroll along are perfect for mulling over a comma."
Even as an eleven-year-old at high school, the need to write was all too evident. The pages of maths exercise books were defaced by dense lines of original lyrics and prose scrawled across solved homework equations, making it difficult for a concerned maths teacher to mark. But as the solutions were correct, it was ultimately decided to say nothing.
"I was oblivious. I didn't even know that I'd written the words. I only found out when I was in my twenties on finding the saved collection of dust-covered exercise books inside a box while helping out in a house move."
Daniel did later suffer a life-endangering brain aneurysm that threatened to wipe the 'word' and 'language' processing centres of his brain should he survive. "...On my recovery, those centres only became more hypersensitised and the words would flow even more so. I'm sure there must be some link with those unconscious writing episodes when I was a child..."
Daniel's meditation practice is a major driving force in his life, and having chosen a varied path of simultaneous intersecting careers, he has worked as a musician, a songwriter and as an artist manager in the rock music business.
And with a keen professional interest in behavioural science, he also works with his highly trained control dogs as a specialist dog handler dedicated to the behavioural modification of highly aggressive canines facing euthanasia.
"Knowing dogs and becoming 'one' with them at the absolute peaks of their most frightening expressions teaches you stuff - mainly about yourself. Your intuition has to pump hard for prolonged periods without failing. And that intuition allows you to know about people, too - both the light and dark sides of this fragile human psyche of ours. I use intuition massively in my writing."
