SITGES, Spain (MMD Newswire) November 10, 2009 -- In Bel Atreides' latest novel, Timeslide, a small group of humans survive an apocalyptic incident that causes a shift in time. The survivors struggle to remember their lives before the time shift, but only have memories of their new world, a world where the fight to live is a daily struggle.
Daily, the "Replacers," who look like children around the age of 10 and are identical in appearance, approach the survivors and try to invade the Ring where the humans reside. Though they have no physical weapons, it is their power that the survivors quickly learn to fear. All it takes is one touch for the Replacers to remove any sense of self-belonging and self-possession from the humans.
Atreides says his book is a thought experiment about self-discovery and answering the age old questions of "Who am I?" and "What is the meaning of life?" The time shift has changed all facets of life from the creation of new mineral, plant and animal species to the mutation of the human species. Timeslide takes the reader through the lives of five main characters on their journey in a world void of any race, gender or national identity.
"Timeslide addresses questions which are fundamental to man but which we usually and easily tend to forget, or even worse, to not recognize as questions at all: the questions relative to the creation, construction, invention or discovering of everyone's identity," Atreides said.
Timeslide is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Bel Atreides is an accomplished author, publishing numerous books of poetry, essays and novels over the past three decades. Atreides has also translated many contemporary novels from English into Spanish. Born in Barcelona, Atreides comes from a noble family that can trace its roots back to the ninth century. Because of his family's rich history and his love of languages, Atreides studied philology at the University of Barcelona and is fluent in a dozen languages.
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Bel Atreides
Email: belatreides@belatreides.com
Phone: (343) 811-1851
Web site: http://www.belatreides.com/
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