Buying Time
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past" — Oscar Wilde.
In January 2017, something very strange happens to screen-writer Ed Richie. He wakes up one morening to find that he has been shunted back in time nine months and is now inhabiting the body of his younger self...
Worse is to come: the following day he jumps three years, to 2013, with all his memories of his intervening years intact. What is happening to him? Is he going mad? And where will his involuntary time-travel end?
Meanwhile, in 2030, journalist Ella Croft is investigating the life of screen-writer and celebrated novelist Ed Richie, who mysteriously vanished in 2025. She interviews friends, acquintances, and old lovers — and what she discovers will change not only Ed Richie's life, but her own...
Buying Time is a time-travel novel like no other. No man is rich enough to buy back his past — unless that man is Ed Richie...
Eric Brown
Eric Brown began writing when he was fifteen years and sold his first short story to Interzone in 1986. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick award. He has published sixty books, and his latest include the crime novel Murder Take Three, and the short story collection Microcosms, with Tony Ballantyne. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and forty short stories. He writes a regular science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath, Scotland.
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