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Time Crystal by Wyken Seagrave
Science Fiction
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The cosmic monopole has been wandering the Universe since the Big Bang. When it is finally trapped in CERN it triggers a disaster which will take fourteen-year-old Catriona O’Brien on an adventure back to the Big Bang and beyond in a desperate attempt to save the Universe from destruction.
Encompassing the whole history of the Universe and most branches of science, Time Crystal is an epic adventure story and romance that will hold you enthralled and show you new worlds both great and small which you have never even dreamed of.
It has taken nine years and cost over $1 million dollars for Wyken Seagrave to develop this fantastic and beautiful story. This truly is the greatest adventure in the history of the Universe!
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By: Wyken Seagrave
From today, 25 September 2009 Time Crystal will be supplemented by a sister podcast, the Art & Science of Time Crystal, available at www.podiobooks.com/title/art-and-science-of-time-crystal. Every week I will talk about some aspect of the story such as the characters, the science, the writing, the plotting. It should be of interest to fans, to budding authors and to those trying to understand more about the science behind this epic adventure.
Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| TimeCrystalVol1-01 (16.5 MB) | Catriona O’Brien is only eight years old when she makes a desperate attempt to bring her parents back together, but she meets more than she bargained for in the dark little park surrounding the Advanced Physics Laboratory where her father does his experiments. The events of that evening will seal her fate, and the destiny of the Universe. | Sep 18, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-02 (16.88 MB) | Catriona looks for help and finds a friend in her teacher, Sam Fitzpatrick, but even he doesn't believe her story. However Sam is an unmarried man who loves children but knows he will never have any children of his own, so he is very happy to help this unhappy little girl. | Sep 18, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-03 (22.14 MB) | Brigit is now the Irish Ambassador to the UN in Geneva. She invites Catriona and Sam to Switzerland for the Easter holiday in 2012. They all go on a visit to CERN where the Director General Francesco Romani wants to persuade Brigit that Irish membership would be of great benefit. Catriona meets Chinese-Irish scientist Michael Zhang and finds that he was present on the night her father died. | Sep 18, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-04 (21.07 MB) | Michael Zhang reveals that he suspects a cosmic monopole was trapped by the strong magnetic fields inside ATLAS and has now been transformed by absorbing particles from the beams into something else, something much more dangerous. | Sep 18, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-05 (21.61 MB) | The black hole emerges from the beam pipe into ATLAS. It hits one of the magnets and causes a quench and a coolant leak. The party try to escape up the stairs, but there are more problems facing them as they hurry up to the surface. The level three alarm reaches the Fire Station just as the Green Team Leader George Gabor is being reprimanded by the self-important Station Commander Laron Parfait. | Sep 18, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-06 (17.26 MB) | Alex leads George Gabor to rescue Catriona and Alex, and the party moves along a tunnel from the USA15 cavern. When Catriona observes the way Alex behaves when he is near Marianne, her passion for him is finally sealed. | Sep 21, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-07 (16.27 MB) | Sam finally realises what a selfish woman his wife really is, then he sees a black shadow emerge from ATLAS and begin to move towards the stretcher in which Marianne is hanging suspended in the middle of the cavern. | Sep 27, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-08 (17.6 MB) | Sam manages to survive drowning in the pink jelly only to find himself lifted up inside the magnetic tube by a gigantic airship with some extraordinary features and actions. | Oct 4, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-09 (16.86 MB) | Sam’s life is threatened by the fierce struggles of the airship to escape from the crystal network. | Oct 11, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-10 (16.9 MB) | Sam finds that Marianne is still alive and encourages her to get out of the stretcher. She is surrounded by a strange soap-like bubble and has serious injuries. | Oct 18, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-11 (17.98 MB) | Marianne reaches the balcony and Sam helps her find Catriona and Alex, but there is danger approaching him through the sky of the pink planet. | Oct 25, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-12 (17.48 MB) | As a giant bee arrives at Sam’s crystal network he sees Marianne revive Catriona and Alex, who then goes off to find the doctor. | Nov 2, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-13 (18.42 MB) | The bee feeds Michael and he is transformed into something even more horrible, but at least he explains to Sam what is going on. | Nov 9, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-14 (18.42 MB) | Alex and George set out to find the doctor but end up taking a trip through the atmosphere up towards outer space. | Nov 15, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-15 (23.49 MB) | After Marianne sings Catriona a lullaby and warns her about Alex they set off along the rope to search for the doctor. During this episode Catriona says: ‘I wish I knew more about all this (meaning pregnancy). Why don’t they teach things like this in school? D’you know they don’t even teach us first aid? It’s incredible when you think about it. I mean, they teach you about biology but don’t teach you the basics of saving somebody’s life! They could so easily make it part of the biology course, couldn’t they?’ Inspired by his own character, Wyken begins a campaign to support teaching first aid in schools. For every person who visits www.timecrystal.co.uk/firstaid and leaves a comment of support, Wyken will pay $1 to the St John Ambulance Schools Campaign. This could be the world's first campaign created by a character in a book! | Nov 22, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-16 (22.37 MB) | Comparative cosmologist Professor Cjingha Itoodoo leaves Michael in the Entroilian nursery and takes Sam and the Universe (which she calls a ‘cosmic egg’) to the University for further analysis. There she meets Councillor Moshendiar. | Nov 29, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-17 (19.22 MB) | Firefighter Sofie Dialektaki helps Marianne search for the helicopter, but it is not where it is supposed to be and Marianne enters labour, much to Sofie’s consternation. | Dec 6, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-18 (26.35 MB) | Cjingha takes the Cosmic Egg to the Palace, meets the Queen and hears the Privy Council discuss the rebellion. Then she takes the Egg to the Temple to be blessed. | Dec 12, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-19 (24.5 MB) | Alex and George narrowly escape death when they discover how to use their crystals to fly. As they find their way back to Geneva Alex makes up his mind that he is going to get his ex-lover Marianne back as soon as he can. | Dec 20, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-20 (21.45 MB) | Sofie suffers almost as much as Marianne as she struggles to help her deliver the baby with only a bottle of water, a bar of chocolate and a rope to help her. | Dec 28, 2009 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-21 (18.21 MB) | Sofie meets George and learns how to fly while the Doctor rescues Marianne’s crystal. Then Sofie flies up to the helicopter where she meets an unwelcome person. | Jan 3, 2010 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-22 (20.12 MB) | George sends Alex back to the ATLAS cavern to collect Danny Schneider, and he uses the opportunity to search for more crystal, but there is a great weight hanging round his neck! | Jan 9, 2010 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-23 (20.02 MB) | Professor Cjingha Itoodoo and Princess Uskabellu take the Cosmic Egg back to the University and work out how they can restart time, but their plans immediately begin to go adrift. | Jan 16, 2010 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-24 (22.41 MB) | Sam tells Catriona what she must do to save the Universe, then gets taken for an unexpected ride. Meanwhile Alex takes Danny Schneider for a ride, though he would rather not have to. | Jan 22, 2010 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-25 (24.74 MB) | Catriona tries to get Alex to help her rescue Sam, while Danny arrives in the Medical Centre and is shocked to learn about the death of the baby. | Jan 30, 2010 |
| TimeCrystalVol1-26 (23.03 MB) | The doctor is shocked as one of the crystal fragments seems to disappear. Meanwhile George arrives in the ATLAS cavern and attempts to catch Alex and Catriona. | Feb 6, 2010 |