Imagine The Wizard of Oz, with a boy named Charlie replacing Dorothy and becoming an amnesiac medium after a tornado time-travel.
You get CHARLIE'S TRIPS.
Charlie Bradshaw is a typical Midwesterner teenager - a bit of a slacker and somewhat naive - who's decided he belonged in the army rather than in school. One day, a massive storm blows in, and a violent tornado destroys his military base, sweeping him away in the process. He's found 21 years later on a San Francisco beach. Charlie thus finds himself unwittingly thrust into a new, futuristic world he never asked for - a world that has moved forward 21 years without him, but that has yet retained some archaic remains. Above all, he also finds out that he can see into the future but can't remember anything about himself and his past life.
An incredible story and a futuristic tale about identity loss and uprooting, where time travel leads to the total erasure of a character's timeline.
The most epic American SciFi book in years.
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An outcast from a lost past... with memories of the future.
"An enjoyable time-travel thriller, with an exciting climax. Felson manages the increasing pace and momentum of his fairly simple plot with a good deal of readable prose, eventually rolling out a series of unpredictable turns that play human drama against the backdrop of looming natural catastrophe." - Kirkus Reviews
"If you have the right sense of humor, you're definitely in for a treat. The sheer absurdity of the book will have you laughing. Felson's knack for bringing a scene to life will have you rolling. Once he stops focusing on trying to write and actually just tells the story, this book becomes a gem. I haven't laughed this hard since my first Evanovich adventure with Lula. (...) Humor aside, the storyline is unusual and interesting. We have this kid who disappears in a tornado and drops from the sky 21 years later, having not aged and having no memory. He finds that he has an unusual power now. (...) If you have a quirky sense of humor, this is seriously number one on my suggested to read list. If not, but you enjoy science fiction, you'll still enjoy it." - Minding Spot
"A truly astonishing book, from a writer whose prose and style could set as the new Will Self. Come on, Random House, you need a hit, publish this." - Popbitch, 2012
Author's note
Charlie’s Trips tells the story of a teenage soldier from the deep Midwest who is swept away by a tornado, much like in The Wizard of Oz. He finds himself on the West Coast 21 years later, following an accidental space-time travel he has no memory of. He's now plagued by visions of the future, all while having lost everything regarding his past - who he is and where he came from. I found interesting to explore how such a character - operating in reverse, lost in a new world he's discovering and which destiny he can foresee, even as his own past has been erased - navigates a futuristic environment, surrounded by people who have not yet become totally dependent on technology and screens the way we have today. I also found interesting and funny to take that character, who lost everything in life, who's a newborn in that new world, and confront him with people who see him almost as some god. I can say this is a pure scifi adventure, as well as a comedy, a social satire and a disaster story. Enjoy!
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Jack to the Future?
This store offers four ebooks written by French author Jack Felson. But it highlights the only English-language title, CHARLIE'S TRIPS, an unusual SciFi effort that reimagines the Wizard of Oz myth with a futuristic twist, replacing the young farm girl with a soldier of the same age and background.
Using a tornado as a space-time tool, the novel triggers an abrupt transition from one environment - and genre - to another. The blog, accessible at the top of the page, features daily articles covering the book itself, the speculative science fiction genre, and the future of humanity.
