The Anachronistic Code: Escape from Tomorrow

by Dwayne R. James

Overview

Two time periods, fifty years apart.
One, a dystopian future, and the other, a strategically altered past that holds the key to stopping a Global holocaust from happening again.

Escape from Tomorrow is the fourth book in the The Anachronistic Code, an epic eight-part time-travel mystery series told in dual narrative streams, each one set in a different era.

In one time stream, sixty-seven-year-old Josh Donegal is living under authoritarian rule on Prince Edward Island in 2035, and must decide whether to attempt a daring underwater escape to look for other survivors of the cataclysmic events that devastated the world a decade earlier.

Meanwhile, in 1985, another version of Josh continues to adjust to having inexplicably shifted in time into the body of his teenaged self, even as he finishes decoding a message that’s been hidden within the pop-culture of the day. This enigmatic message instructs Josh to gather other time travellers like himself and follow a series of clues that, taken together, might just have the potential to change a grim future that only they know is coming.

As old-Josh makes a move that sets both time streams on a collision course, young-Josh and his friends seek out the first of these mysterious clues in the shadow of a legendary oak tree...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164822989
Publisher:	Dwayne R. James
Publication date:	02/17/2021
Series:	The Anachronistic Code
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	552 KB

About the Author

Writer and watercolour artist Dwayne James lives outside of Lakefield, Ontario where he writes and paints as often as he can, that is when he's not spending time with his very forgiving family.

Dwayne studied archaeology in University, and as a result learned how to write creatively. "The most important skill I learned in University," he says, "was the ability to pretentiously write about myself in the third person."

With no formal art training, Dwayne has always preferred the self-guided, experimental approach. In fact, he taught himself how to illustrate archaeological artifacts while completing his Master's degree at Trent University. Said his thesis supervisor at the time: "There might not be much in the way of coherent theoretical content in Dwayne's thesis, but damn, it looks pretty!"

After spending close to a decade as a technical communicator at IBM, Dwayne opted to look at their Jan 2009 decision to downsize him as an opportunity to become a stay-at-home Dad for his young twins, and pursue his painting and creative writing whenever they allow him to do so. It is a decision that continues to make him giggle with wild abandon to this very day.