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Hold on to your time-hopping hats and chronological compasses, you're about to embark on a tempestuous trek through the tangled threads of time! Prepare to be propelled into a paradoxical panorama of temporal tampering, tantalizing twists, with a temporal traveler named Alex. This isn't your typical historical escapade -- this is a heart-pounding, mind-bending odyssey where the past pirouettes on a precarious precipice, and the future teeters on the brink of temporal turmoil. Join me, your reluctant guide, as I'm thrust into this tumultuous tapestry of time by a chance collision with Alex Pearin, a.k.a. Jack the Ripper. (Fear not, he's not the macabre menace you might imagine. Time travel has a knack for confounding expectations.) Our convergence sparks the genesis of the enigmatic Time Agency Chronoclasm Organisation (TACO), a clandestine agency wielding the power to reshape history's tapestry. Suddenly, I'm staring down the barrel of choice: join TACO, or become... slightly dead. No pressure, right? So I find myself on a mission to pluck the Blair Witch from the jaws of temporal oblivion, caught in a time-war between TACO and their rivals, the enigmatic BELL (Bureau of Enfolded Loopback Logistics, maybe? They won't say.). But the stakes escalate with each tick of the temporal clock. My subsequent assignment? Ensuring the Titanic's tragic trajectory, 1,500 will perish, yes, but it's a grim necessity to safeguard countless lives across the boundless expanse of the multiverse. Time travel, as you'll discover, is a treacherous tapestry of triumphs and tribulations. Then there's 1493. Leonardo da Vinci, on the cusp of aviation genius. But meddling with the timeline is a delicate dance. So Alex and I waltz into Florence, trying to convince Leonardo da Vinci to hold off on his airborne dreams. But the allure of flight proves irresistible, and we'll find ourselves soaring alongside him, rewriting history with every wingbeat. And amidst the temporal paradoxes, I uncover a shocking truth: I founded BELL.

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Born in Newcastle on Tyne, England John lead a pretty boring early life. He lived in a Buddhist monastery, a civilized place with no electricity, no phone, no flush toilet, stone slab floors and a water supply which ran down a field in an open ditch. When he was sent to boarding school he accidentally set fire to it. He became a chemistry teacher but was frustrated by not being allowed to do all the interesting experiments. He changed to teaching computers in the early 80s and was delighted to find they would do exactly what they were told (unlike his pupils.) He met his wife Shelia in an Internet chat room in 1997 - see it does work sometimes! They had problems with UK and US immigration departments and spent three years as illegal immigrants in Canada where they earned a living designing web pages. That was followed by six years of teaching in London before returning to the North to pursue a career in writing.

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