Downtime Shift

By Robert Holding

ORIGINAL AND THOUGHT PROVOKING SCI-FI MYSTERY Evelyn is a Shifty - Identified as a potential candidate as a child in an AI orphanage and later selected for Specialist Highly Immersive Field Training by a secretive organisation. The purpose: a five-year secondment in time!!! As her deployment draws near she begins to suspect the motivations of the organisation are not exactly as they claim... and her own post-shift prospects may not be either! From her hiding place in DOWNTIME she risks her fugitives' anonymity for a curious look at the next shift, and what she witnesses there sparks a chain of events and a journey that could decide humanity's fate! With help along the way from mysterious new allies she sets out to expose the dangerous self-interests of her superiors - and the true origin and purpose of the echo loop. Questioning the motives and beliefs of others though, she's also going to have to question her own. A place in the future's history was the last thing she wanted... and it appears it might already be inevitable! lovereading.co.uk's view on DOWNTIME SHIFT ' DOWNTIME SHIFT is an intriguing, complex and chilling work of science fiction by Robert Holding. Set in the twenty-first and twenty-ninth centuries, it paints a frightening picture of a future in which mankind is totally controlled by artificial intelligence. Evelyn, the main character, is a 'Shifty', that is someone who has been trained to survive and carry out tasks for the 'EYE' when travelling 800 years into the planet's past to alter its future for the better. Questioning these tasks, Evelyn returns to her own time to find that many of the remaining population want to take back control of their lives, but also that the 'EYE' has more forces under her control than had been reckoned with. This is a very challenging read on many levels and so plausible in general that it is truly terrifying. The characters are well-defined and the plot fast-paced. The author does leave us with a light at the end of the turbulent tunnel though. I would certainly recommend this book, especially to anyone feeling disillusioned with the way modern life seems to be heading.' Drena Irish, A LoveReading Ambassador

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1679539639
• ISBN13: 9781679539633
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"