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Imagine The Wizard of Oz, with Charlie replacing Dorothy and becoming an amnesiac medium after a tornado time-travel.
You get CHARLIE'S TRIPS.
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(Please note that CHARLIE'S TRIPS is the only product in English. The Halloween Picture Show is available in English on Amazon and B&N. Cheneyland is also visible in English here, but only for its first half.)
Welcome to all of you! Jack Felson speaking.
Can I ask you a serious question - do you ever wonder about our future, what our world will look like in a few decades, and what our place in it will be?
As a book & graphic novel writer and as a filmmaker, you can approach our future and shape it however you like. You can create more or less optmistic space operas or speculative fables. You can also invent devices that don’t exist and use them to travel through time - in either direction. Yet, when observing the advent of certain technologies - the Internet, in particular - and the fast progress of artificial intelligence, any reasonably concerned citizen might ask: what will become of us when those tools that we ourselves created, reach the pinnacle of perfection? Some already fear a "Great Replacement" and have even predicted our extinction - foreseeing a time when human intelligence becomes outdated, obsolete. What do you think?
I am an 'Afro-French' or 'African-French' - whichever you prefer - novelist and screenwriter. I am very fond of science fiction, even if it isn’t my primary genre. That said, I have explored the genre in some of my work, whether in books or film scripts.
To be totally honest, my main goal with this page is to raise awareness of Charlie’s Trips. The other three titles listed here are "supporting" works that aren't even available in English - though The Halloween Picture Show does exist in English (on Amazon and Barnes & Noble), and an English version of Cheneyland is currently in the works.
"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. After you throw in a cast of various characters, you find yourself wondering if that isn't exactly how things would go if it were to happen to someone in real life. 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
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 it 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.
The four titles featured here are already available in print and ebook formats on Amazon and other major global platforms. They are offered on this page exclusively as ebooks; it is cheaper and, above all, much faster - not a single second is wasted.
I hope you enjoy that page and my works, thanks a lot to all of you. Have a nice shopping and reading!
-- Jack Felson.
