User:TP Archie/sandbox

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1) T.P. Archie Bio

T.P. Archie came to this planet a few years ago and liked it so much he invited himself to stay. He lives with a small colony of non-humans (four dogs and two cats). His adoptive family have been known to take him on walks. When opportunity allows he can be spotted frequenting local writing groups in Haslingden, Bury and Burnley. Sometimes he is allowed to visit My Telegraph, (hosted by the Daily Telegraph) where he claims not only to have run a short story competition for the Creative Writing Group there, but even to have published a collection of 36 short stories from the denizens of that site.

He has read many SF / Fantasy books and having taken so much from the genre he thinks it’s about time he put something back. His interests include history, philosophy and Sufism and anything else he takes a fancy to.

In a parallel life he is a CIMA qualified accountant.

2) Put something back in?

Not for the faint-hearted. Not for the SF newbies. Certainly not for those who need narratives to run straight and true, and no deviation.

Some reference to You Tube Some ref to short stories Some ref to novel

A Guide to First Contact begins...

''In the late Pleistocene, a member of the dominant hominids delves through inner space to outer space and makes a discovery. The Earth then, as now, is under observation. Those observers deduce a change in the behaviour of the observed. Then an ancient artefact goes missing.''

Flash forward to the present... ''Brent still hasn't figured out that nice guys come last in the evolutionary stakes. He moons over a disinterested Bahati. Bahati who works on a genetic programme to recreate races lost long before the pre-history of man. The Americans make a startling find on a Near Earth Object. It is brought to Earth. A strange technological race, delving into uncertainty theory and the observer effect, ends.''

And in a post apocalyptic future... ''Triste is a bounty hunter. He works the former urban areas in the wasteland that was once America. With the exception of the Petit États, little remains of that once mighty nation. Evidence of intrigues that brought down the West, come to light. And Triste? He's busy trying to keep out of the clutches of the mandat culturel. However when schemes, long in the devising come to fruition, it isn't easy to circumvent them. But is Triste the victim or the bait?''