{"id":40,"date":"2012-07-31T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2022-09-08T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:34:37","slug":"times-chariot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/novels\/times-chariot\/","title":{"rendered":"Time&#8217;s Chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1865\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385614500\/hismajestysstars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1865\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/times-chariot.jpg\" alt=\"Time's Chariot\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385614500\/hismajestysstars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Order this book<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;But at my back I always hear<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Time&#8217;s wing\u00e8d chariot hurrying near,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And yonder all before us lie<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Vast deserts of eternity.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistresse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the universe of Time&#8217;s Chariot (a.k.a. Wing\u00e8d Chariot) by Ben Jeapes: a story of murder, conspiracy, time travel and philosophy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5000 BC: a man from the far future falls to his death from his villa in the Himalayas.<\/li>\n<li>1029 AD: a time travelling correspondent arrives in Isfahan, Persia.<\/li>\n<li>2000 years later: no matter how hard he tries to stay out of trouble, trouble keeps finding Rico Garron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/novels\/times-chariot\/about-the-book\/\">Author&#8217;s note about <em>Times Chariot<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/novels\/times-chariot\/times-chariot-background\/\">The world of <em>Time&#8217;s Chariot<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/novels\/times-chariot\/about-the-book\/correspondents-short-story\/\">Read &#8220;Correspondents&#8221;, the short story\u00a0that started it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/novels\/times-chariot\/about-the-book\/anselm-of-canterbury\/\">Read a bonus chapter, not available in print<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3159048-time-s-chariot\"><em>Time&#8217;s Chariot<\/em> on Goodreads<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a title=\"Reviews\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/times-chariot-reviews\/\">Reviews<\/a><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"two-columns-one\"><em>&#8220;The ideas being played with are hellishly complex, made more so by Jeapes&#8217;s antic sense of humour. The jokes are small, dry and pungent, like peppercorns, the clues as tenuous as soap bubbles \u2014 take your eye off them and they&#8217;re gone. It&#8217;s all hard work but it&#8217;s also enormous fun, and the sensation of having reached the same conclusion as the author is exhilarating.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Jan Mark, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TES<\/a>.<\/strong><em>&#8220;Wing\u00e8d Chariot is good children&#8217;s fiction for adults, or good adult fiction for children, depending on the way you look at it. Either way, it&#8217;s a gentle touch, a fulfilling read.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www\/sfsite.com\/interzone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interzone<\/a><\/strong><em>&#8220;Jeapes creates a clever, twisty plot; it would be unfair to try to summarise any part of it, as that would spoil the surprises. It&#8217;s partly political thriller, partly murder mystery, and partly a serious inquiry into how we will use the wonders of technology that out future promises &#8230; The book is full of ideas, with a real sense of how human beings can change their future and will inevitably be changed by it.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Vector<\/strong><em>&#8220;Ben Jeapes has written an engrossing and muscular thriller. Garron may be an off-the-peg rebel with a cause, but the sinuous and twisting snake of a plot demands a pretty unconventional approach to resolve its paradoxes.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>The Scotsman<\/strong><em>&#8220;All science fiction is dual-genre, adventure, mystery, western etc and this one is a gripping thriller and murder mystery. The surprises pop and crackle on every page while the conceptualisation of the time travel scenario has all the originality that science fiction addicts crave.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cix.co.uk\/~asc\/trapped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Trapped in the Real World<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two-columns-one last\"><em>&#8220;Science, adventure and romance are brought together &#8230; A couple of dozen ingenious ideas are thrown in, and they blend marvellously: time travel, space travel, singularities, biogenics and weapons technology to name but a few. More importantly, the characters are likeable and the plot moves at a cracking pace.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Keighley News<\/strong><em>&#8220;With its twists and turns, chases and fights, this is a substantial, intriguing, well-told and thought-provoking story which keeps you guessing right up to the end.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Books for Keeps<\/strong><em>&#8220;The story is actually like a murder mystery and it leads you on, deeper and deeper into the book, and you are never sure what is going to happen.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Teen Titles<\/strong><em>&#8220;Wing\u00e8d Chariot is a clever blend of science fiction, detective story and all-out action thriller. From the first page it moves along at a breakneck speed. It is a well-told story which keeps you involved with the characters and the plot right up to the final page.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Sunday Morning Post<\/strong><em>&#8220;It is an excellent novel.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Books in Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But at my back I always hear Time&#8217;s wing\u00e8d chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Vast deserts of eternity.&#8221; Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistresse Welcome to the universe of Time&#8217;s Chariot (a.k.a. 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