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    Phantoms of the Quantum Rift
    Phantoms of the Quantum Rift
    Phantoms of the Quantum Rift
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    Phantoms of the Quantum Rift

    By Peter Salisbury

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    A global network of quantum generators is activated but instead of providing universal power, black tentacles of quantum fog drag individuals through a rift in space time. Then the phantoms appear. Are they the dead returning or the living trapped in the wrong dimension? Dave tries to put things right but he has troubles of his own: his wife is missing. Long version of 'Phades - Lost Souls'.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Salisbury
    Release dateFeb 6, 2011
    ISBN9781458095916
    Phantoms of the Quantum Rift
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    Peter Salisbury

    I am a life-long fan of science fiction, and so when I had an idea for my first story, I wasn't surprised that it was in that genre. The first book took me ten years to complete, but I've got a little quicker since. I am pleased to say that I now have over thirty books published in my name. What next? So far I haven't run short of ideas for new stories, so there are several projects in various stages of completion, and I hope to be publishing the next story before too long, so please subscribe to my alerts. My profile picture is a portrait of the author as a young man, painted by my daughter Charlotte Salisbury who has also contributed to several of my book covers. Professional background In the 1970s I studied Chemistry at university and then spent over thirty years in classrooms across England teaching almost anything but Chemistry, including Photography, Communications Skills, General Science, Computing, and Information and Communications Technology. In the 1990s I spent ten years writing abstracts of chemical patents. This was a most exacting process but very rewarding to be reading about the very latest inventions in the field, and the abstracts were distributed world-wide to research scientists by subscription. Articles of mine have been published in magazines and I have written assignments used for assessing Communications Skills for a major international Examination Board. After retiring early this century I began writing in earnest.

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      Phantoms of the Quantum Rift - Peter Salisbury

      Phantoms of the Quantum Rift

      Peter Salisbury

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      Copyright © Peter Salisbury January 2011

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. No part of this book may be copied or distributed without the permission of the copyright holder. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This work is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to any person or organization is entirely coincidental and unintentional.

      Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Rose for her help with editing and her advice on technical issues.

      Phantoms of the Quantum Rift

      Chapter 1: Smart Shoes

      Dave stepped down from the shuttle bus east of the city centre, right in the heart of the technology quarter. At each intersection there were high-rise laboratories. What remained between were remnants of out-dated terraces. Made over and converted to coffee houses, restaurants and shops, they served a bustling, academic work-force. As he approached the Enjigen building, Dave saw his top technician, Stacey, amongst the tightly woven threads of commuters. He let her go first through the revolving street door, past the security turnstile and into the lift.

      Together, they passed at a brisk pace through the air lock into the lab. It was essential for Dave's department to have all the control circuitry in place for the 'Big Turn On'.

      Over the last ten years, Dave had become head of a team manufacturing high precision initialiser systems. These were no ordinary control systems. They would form the direct link to the new Western European Energy Network (WEEN). Dave's department was hours away from completing the initialiser to be used the next day by the European President.

      Every country had its own quantum generator regions. Each region built its own generator, which would be connected to the Global Wireless Energy Network (GWEN), of which the WEEN was a vital part.

      When he had started as a trainee tech with Enjigen, Dave had spent half his first paycheque on the very latest phone. It was loaded with features he knew he'd do no more than talk about but he 'had' to have one, everyone did. The first thing he'd fired up was the global locator software; watched it link itself to eighty or ninety satellites. That was when he began to realise just how much radio transmission energy there was about. Way back, as a child, he had discovered that when he put his hand near a radio or stuck his finger into the aerial socket of the television, he could pick up stations because his body was a receiving antenna. By the time he was an adult, that had grown to a different order of magnitude entirely: the human body was being used to transmit as well as receive data.

      During his apprenticeship at Enjigen, Dave had worked on integrating electronics into every item in daily use. And everything electronic used wireless transmission: portable tablets and mini-tablets that combined the functions previously separated in phones, cameras, PDAs and e-readers. Digital 3D TV and radio could be picked up anywhere. Smart shoes told your weight and how much exercise you'd had through walking. Smart clothes could download new patterns and display animated graphics and movies, or digital camouflage if you didn't want to be seen. No longer did the individual pay for the T-shirt to have a designer name across the front

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