What is QS, afterall?
Time. The uniform, and accelerating after a certain age in terms of individualistic psychology, forward paced movement of time that is, at one point, supposed to help us to our graves, sooner or later, stops for nothing and no one, But what if instead of going with it, we turned back, and went past it? That, and the apparent irreversible impacts of choices and decisions made at the most fundamental levels of society is what serves as the core philosophy of Quantum Skip, my third novel.
It is not only an attempt at introducing the general reader with a more realistic approach towards time travel and its complexities, but also seeks, as a literary work, to demonstrate the consequences of making the wrong decisions.
The inability of reconsidering your choices once they have been made is what drives the expectedly reducing tolerance of error among humans, and that is what advances civilization, knowing that when something goes wrong, we may never be able to fix it at a time that has already moved forward from the event of the wrongdoing.
The Gist of QUANTUM SKIP
A patriot acting as a pivotal link in the chain of command tries to earn his share of profits from a corporate-temporal cold war that rages between two tech giants, and invests the money into something he believes will bring peace to the never-ending conflict in his mind.
A field operative wakes up everyday from a sleep that was induced by the thoughts of the greater good that might come into effect because of the morally questionable choices he made; to a morning following more of the similarly morally questionable choices.
A diplomat swiftly climbs the political ladder, but finds herself in confrontation with the very people who helped her in doing so, when she decides the climb has a slow pace and patience wouldn’t help in continuing it.
But while entangled in the intricacies of their minds and thoughts, how much can you trust the little that they choose to reveal?
In a world where technology dominates the morphing nature of interests, espionage of the most sensitive of information regarding international security is consumed as entertainment by the common people, and the concepts of trust and humanitarian values are non existent to those put in charge, three, or five, survivors play their turns by moving what they see as pieces of a chess game that decides their fate, but are actually the very strings that orchestrated their every move to begin with, treating them as the puppets that they are in a nasty temporal loop.
