Chronosphere Book 1: Time out of Time: Bk. 1 - Softcover

Alex Woolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907184554 ISBN 13: 9781907184550

Publisher: Scribo-a division of Bookhouse, 2011

Synopsis

Is your life rushing by too fast? No time to stop and smell the roses? Ever wanted a little time out? What if you could buy a year out of time, free to relax, play and party all you liked, safe in the knowledge that at the end of it all you'd be returned back to the moment you left? Ask Raffi Delgado. He knows all about it. Set in the late 22nd century, Chronosphere is a science fiction series which follows the adventures of teenager Raffi and his friends Dario, Jonah, Lastara and Sal in the Chronosphere, the place you go when you've bought time out of time. At first all is well, but something disturbing bubbles beneath the glossy exterior of the 'paradise' that is the Chronosphere. In Book One, 'Time Out of Time', teenagers go missing and the Secrocon Police start arresting people by dilating them to normal time, causing them to freeze. When Dario and Raffi are arrested and sent to a horrific subterranean gulag, they discover a girl who is living her life backwards, but why? And how? With mystery, fun, danger, twists and turns, Chronosphere is a esmerising glimpse into a dark future where the fun of hoverbiking, air-tennis and trips to the holoplex are all held in check by the firm grip of a police state. For fans of the sci-fi genre and also those who are looking to get started.

About this title

Product Description

What if you could stop time, forget work and worries, and begin again, right where you left off? In the late twenty-second century, you can--thanks to the Chronosphere. For Raffi Delgado, this "gap year" seems like the perfect holiday, with a luxury apartment and great weather. But something is going terribly wrong, and teenagers are mysteriously disappearing. Now it's up to Raffi and his friends to uncover the dark truths that lie beneath the Chronosophere's surface. But in this police state with plenty to hide, that could be dangerous. The first in a thrilling futuristic sci-fi trilogy.

Review

"A blend of high-tech and rural picnicking... it's a place teen readers could easily see themselves in... for a debut novel this has an oomph, a drama and a gusto" (The Bookbag)

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribo-a division of Bookhouse
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907184554
• ISBN 13: 9781907184550
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240