The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester
Time Travel Diaries
Here is a cautionary tale about using ChatGPT to provide a synopsis of a book. I asked ChatGPT to provide a synopsis of my books from the Time Travel Diaries of James Urquahart & Elizabeth Bicester. Here are 3 versions it provided. Version 1 “The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester” by…
My short story, “The Waves on Mars are Really High,” drew inspiration from Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travells, published in 1726, and his Voyage to Laputa; an island floating in the sky, propelled by the mythical material, adamant. The attraction was his great attention to detail on how the astronomers of Laputa navigated their island, their…
It is recorded that Professor Rolleston discovered the Time Travel Diaries in the attic of Elizabeth Bicester’s house at Hamgreen. He is a shadowy figure who appears briefly now and then to guide the Time Travellers through their journeys. He is thought to be guardian of the diaries. And has an intimate knowledge of the activities of…
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My original intention was to write a story by someone in the distant future who finds two diaries locked together in an old box. One written by a James Urquhart from 2015 and the other by an Elizabeth Bicester, a Victorian lady of means. At first the finder of the diaries believes they are some…
This is an experiment to use Chat OpenAI to generate poems from the stories of the Time Travel Diaries of JamesUrquhart & Elizabeth Bicester. I have taken examples from the first chapters of the books and asked Chat OpenAI to regenerate them in the style of W. B. Yates and Tennyson. This poem is taken…
A Short Story from The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester Avaialble on Amazon Kindle From February 2023 Beware of Fairies Bearing Gifts is a short story from the Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester which I wrote just before Christmas 2022. In summer, the veranda of Elizabeth’s house…
For readers who might be interested in the places and people I’ve used in my stories in the Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester, I’ve compiled a small list below. Choosing locations and characters With the exception of Mars, I’ve based my stories in areas where I have lived and know reasonably…
A lot of strange things have been attached to Nikola Tesla on the internet including time travel and communications with Mars. The most famous is in a New York Herald in March 1895 Tesla, while conducting an experiment, was nearly electrocuted and had an “Out of time” experience where he could see a little way…
I’ve been selling my books of the The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester on Amazon Kindle since 2015. So, I thougt it might be worth looking at how well I’ve done on sales. Luckily this isn’t my day job! Advertising the Time Travel Diaries Firstly I haven’t spent a penny on…
Free on Amazon Kindle today Short stories from the humorous and sometimes romantic time travel diaries of James Urquhart, a science lecturer, who lived in 2015 and Elizabeth Bicester, Victorian Cambridge graduate, whom he met at cricket match in 1873. Time travel is fraught with difficulties.Your timelines might cross, and you meet yourself or you…