ASMSG Scifi Fantasy Paranormal Emagazine August 2014 | Page 15

SFP Indie Issue 3

Ceri London

Originally Posted Here: Time Flow Premise for Rogue Genesis
I’ve pressed the publish button on
Rogue Genesis and am contemplating
the science points raised in some of my
advance reviews. The clues of
speculative mad science are in the book
blurb.

belief—a requirement for most science
fiction, science fantasy and fantasy.

It’s changing position in the universe
relative to everything else.

However, I am happy to explain my
initial thinking on the premise. I have
put clues to most of this in the story.

One man. Two worlds separated by a
universe. Space-time warped by black
holes. In the passing of seconds on
Earth, Major Niall Kearey has
witnessed the birth and death of
generations on Astereal. Astereal is in
decline, the dueling forces of black
holes threaten extinction. Time is
running out as Astereal races towards
annihilation and temporal alignment
with Earth.

1) DIFFERENT TIMEFLOW
It’s theoretically possible for different
timeflows to exist throughout the
universe. But I wanted a solar
system/galaxy where time starts flowing
faster relative to the rest of the universe
eons ago. NOT SLOWER!

4) A CLUSTER OF BLACK
HOLES
It’s possible a cluster of black holes is
creating a situation where combined
gravitational forces keep an otherwise
doomed solar system in balance and
weird effects on time. Don’t believe the
first
is
possible?
Check
out
http://www.newscientist.com/article/d
n21081-astrophile-the-sticky-starcluster-thats-mostly-black-hole.html
Okay, what about weird effects on
time? Well, why not, in my fictional
world?

It is speculative fiction. It is a mad plot,
and it gets crazier, and that’s why it was
so much fun to write and, I hope, fun
to read for those willing to suspend

2) MAKE STUFF UP
Is it a plot device still to be revealed in
the series? Maybe. Maybe not.

Not as much plot fun in that. What
supports a faster time flow in addition
to 1 above?

3) CHANGING POSITION

5) LOWER MASS THAN EARTH
Time could flow faster on Astereal
simply because it has a lower mass than
Earth, plus its distance from the central
mass of the universe. I wasn’t
convinced by that, so didn’t really use it.

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