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Worlds of the Timestream: The Interregnum Series, Book 1: The Peace (Worlds of the Timestream Science Fiction/Christian Alternate Earth) Kindle Edition

by Richard J. Sutcliffe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The Timestream is at least six known versions of Planet Earth arranged in hexagonal fashion. Each has different histories and societies, some different geologies, but all share the same physical laws and chronology. At critical historical points on one of the planets, crucial decisions result in two Earths with the same prior history but differing subsequent ones. Major events on neighbouring planets in the Timestream affect each other strongly...

James IV, High King of Ireland and the worlds he rules, is deposed at the height of the Three Worlds' War in 1941. Banned from the throne by his corrupt nobles for sixty years, he struggles to survive and maintain the Pax Hibernia (Ireland's enforced peace over the planet) despite clan MacCarthy's genocidal high-tech schemes. Characters struggle with religious and political loyalties as all are drawn into Greater Hibernia's intrigues. Romance and tragedy converge on the stage in remote Edwardstown, launching reborn lives and new hopes.

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    Worlds of the Timestream Science Fiction/Christian Alternate Earth
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Richard J. (Rick) Sutcliffe, is Professor of Mathematics and Computing Science at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, and has been Adjunct Professor in the nearby School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. At TWU, Rick coordinates academic computing curriculum and facilities, serves on numerous campus committees, and has also spent two years as Acting Dean (Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences.) Sutcliffe represents Canada on international computing standards committees and has published a text in computing science, written one on ethical and social issues in technology, and has authored more than fifty articles and reviews in a variety of trade and technical publications. He has been a columnist for several magazines and newspapers (The Northern Spy, Anodidacticus, The Dialectical Apple, Through a Glass Darkly ). He coined the terms "New Renaissance", "Metalibrary", "concinnity", "Fourth Civilization" and "wired campus", has been a leader in electronic publication, and has been active on the Internet since the 1970s. He has also been an invited speaker at numerous churches, educational and computing conferences, and technical symposia at local, national, and international levels. Rick Sutcliffe writes Irish-flavoured Christian science fiction. His first series, The Interregnum, deals with a variety of technology and ethical issues in thought-provoking plots set on alternate earths. His first novel, "The Peace" was published electronically in June 2000 and became its publisher's best-seller. "The Friends", and "The Exile", books two and three the same series followed in 2003 and won to the EPPIE finals. He revived The Northern Spy electronically, and also has a Philology site at opundo.com. Affiliated companies sell domain names and do web hosting. Prior to his academic career, he taught secondary school for twelve years in Langley, BC, last at Mountain Secondary School. There, he served as his school's math/computer science department head, physics teacher, staff chairman, club sponsor, and scholarship counsellor. He brought the International Baccalaureate programme to public schools for the first time, was active in curriculum development and was among the first to use microcomputers in secondary schools. He has research interests in standards, programming languages, data structures, and in the social, ethical, and religious aspects of high technology. He is active in Aldergrove Fellowship Baptist Church, having been chairman, treasurer, deacon, elder, youth worker, librarian and Bible teacher. He has built two houses, gardens, writes software, and been active in politics. He has also been appointed as external advisor in the accreditation of several local schools. He has travelled extensively as a speaker and to represent the Canadian Standards Association and the Standards Council of Canada at ISO meetings. He presently resides in Bradner, B.C. with his wife Joyce. They have two grown sons Nathan and Joel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Writers Exchange E-Publishing; 3rd edition (September 17, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 17, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Rick Sutcliffe is a husband (to Joyce) father, and grandfather. He is Professor of Computing Science and Mathematics at Canada's Trinity Western University, a Christian liberal arts school consistently ranked #1 in the country by its students. His academic interests are in discrete mathematics and programming language design, and he is co-author of the Modula-2 R10 language. He speaks and writes on technology, social, and ethical issues, including The Northern Spy, a syndicated technology column started in 1983. He is the author of two textbooks--one on computer programming, the other on ethical and social issues in technology. When he isn't doing one or more of these, he spends time with grandchildren, and on photography gardening, and philately.

His award winning series of novels are Christian Science Fiction with an Irish flavour (alternate history)--stories of other earths, other technologies, and the societies and ethical systems that derive from and in turn influence technology choices.

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  • Pastor B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Starts great, and each book in this series gets better!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018
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    This is a review of "The Peace" (read it, you won't regret it!), but more of a review of his whole "World's of the Timestream" series.

    Richard Sutcliffe's "Worlds of the Timestream" series stands out vividly in the world of contemporary fiction. He uses the idea of an alternate world, in this case a world where Irish Celtic influence rules, to critique our modern society and to present an alternative worldview. Along with the best of modern Science Fiction (in my opinion), this work explores what it means to be a human being in relation to others. His stories show excellent character development and tell and retell the same events from the different perspectives of those characters (something he calls the "Celtic Knot method"), and which at the same time present mystery on mystery for you to figure out (you almost think you've solved them...and then you're not so sure).
    When I read the first volume I was not aware that Rick Sutcliffe was a practicing Christian. When I came across some Christian concepts presented in the text I was surprised, and I decided that what the author was writing was a very accurate portrayal of a committed Christian. That was unusual in contemporary fiction, and I was pleased to read something in which a Christian was portrayed positively (but realistically as well). But Christian or not, I think you'll have a great read in them!
    I especially appreciate how the author deals with so many of the tough issues life (such as the problem of evil, marriage, sexual purity, self-discipline, revenge and violence). Never sappy, never shallow, I have enjoyed reading these books several times already. I recommend this series to all SciFi/Mystery fans that I know, and I recommend it to you.
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  • PngSojo
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very intriguing! Challenging to follow, since it's design ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2016
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    Very intriguing!
    Challenging to follow, since it's design has one hopping time and locations periodically that strain the brain.
    I was intrigued, and am interested to read the rest of the series.
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  • S. Weyhrich
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic series, a must read!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2020
    I will admit up front that I have not read much Christian fiction. I read the Left Behind series when it was new, but it does not have much re-readability. I tried a science-fiction book years ago, written from a Christian point of view, but it was really not well done. I would imagine that It is hard enough to write a compelling story of fiction that is in itself good enough to enjoy, but to add in Christian elements sometimes just makes the story awkward or preachy.

    Historical fiction from a Christian point of view may be doable, but it often is simply a romance novel with Biblical moral themes, and likely a read-once type of book.

    Speculative fiction, creating other worlds of fantasy or science, could be done with Christian beliefs intertwined, but how does one reconcile that with the real world in which the events in the Bible took place?

    And yet, with all of those arguments stacked against it, author Rick Sutcliffe has managed to create an epic spread out over ten books that involves alternative worlds, science fiction, and historical fiction, all with a decidedly Christian world view. He has created an alternative earth that has technology two centuries beyond our own, which has experienced the effects of a world-devastating biological and nuclear war. Because of this devastation, this world has decided to follow a “Covenant of the Living”, in which mechanized conflict has been outlawed for all reasons, even for wars between nations. Fighting is done only with weapons that can be wielded directly against an opponent (sword, knife, or stick), and those who would use projectile weapons of any kind are shunned and imprisoned. If you will fight, you must deal with your opponent face-to-face.

    If that’s not unusual enough, in this version of Earth, known as Hibernia, Ireland rules what are in this world the British Isles, and in fact has the international control and influence that exceeds that of the United States in our world.

    Just like our world, there are those who do not respect or believe in the authority of the Bible or the Church, and work to push forth their own agenda, to try to gain power, wealth and influence in the world.

    Sutcliffe’s story crosses at times over into some of the other Earths that exist in what is called the Timestream. Our own Earth is one of them, and that Earth is kept ignorant of the Timestream, lest we move over to some of the less-populated versions of Earth and overrun them. One Earth, Water World, consists only of islands and is mostly ocean; another, Desert, still is mostly waste from a more devastating nuclear war than what affected Hibernia.

    Winding through the volumes are the efforts of those who want to restore the kingship in Hibernia to the moral and just, fighting against those who just want power for themselves.

    In the first six books of the series, The Peace, The Friends, The Exile, The General, The Nexus, and The Builder, Sutcliffe introduces his characters and tells their stories over more than one time period, intertwining them from chapter to chapter. He starts with the forced exile of Ireland’s King James in 1941, switches to the aftermath of a civil war in Ireland 30 years later, and moves on to some people from Ireland on our Earth in 1941. He continues to weave these stories from different time periods over the subsequent books, gradually revealing more about how they all fit together, and in later books relating the history that brings the reader up to the restoration of the kingship in 2001.

    The final book of the series, The Throne, became actually four books - Culmanic Parts, Rae’s Blood, Tara’s Mother, and The Paladin. These fill in the rest of the story of the formation of the Ireland on Hibernia that eventually rules the world, and brings it up to the culmination of the revived kingship.

    I mentioned earlier that the Christian fiction that I have read in the past was not worth a re-read. Sutcliffe’s series has completely turned that around for me. In my opinion, these books are worth several reads, and they contain characters who are compelling, believable, and realistic, and ones that I as a reader really care about. Furthermore, Sutcliffe’s writing not only deals with these characters and how they react to the changes of history and the moral issues each has to face, but also addresses the origin of the world, God’s actions in it, and how those things affect me in this, the real world. Some of the conflicts described reflect some of the anger, hatred, and attitudes towards other ethnic groups that are exploding in 2020 in this real world. Sutcliffe’s Christian believers demonstrate behavior and attitude towards these peoples that are worthy of emulating in this non-fiction world in which we live. Some events in The Nexus describe those who use rioting to move forward their own agenda, another parallel with current events.

    I would highly recommend each of these books as individually fascinating and compelling stories, and the series as a whole is as fleshed out as the compendium of Tolkien’s stories of Middle Earth. If you as a reader enjoy science fiction, historical fiction, and alternate histories, these books are for you!
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