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Elsewhen Press, an indie publisher specialising in speculative fiction, is delighted to be teaming up with Rogelio Fojo and R. James Doyle for an exciting new project. 

A dream project that began with the support of acclaimed British writer Christopher Priest for his Uruguayan filmmaker friend Rogelio Fojo is now brought to life in a captivating book, honouring Priest’s recent passing. Rogelio once travelled to England to meet his idol, author Christopher Priest, and for the two to present together the premiere of their film collaboration The Stooge (starring Pat Scott and Robert Picardo from Star Trek: Voyager) at Novacon, the UK’s oldest science fiction convention. This screenplay by Priest – complementing his novel previously adapted into the hit movie The Prestige directed by Christopher Nolan – delved once again into the mysterious world of stage magicians. During their meeting, the two friends discussed extending the idea of secretive magicians with their shared passion for time travel to new projects – including one Rogelio had already initiated in California with author R. James Doyle, once a scientific consultant for the TV series Babylon 5 and an AI and space technology expert recently retired from JPL/NASA. 

In a stroke of synchronicity, indie publisher Elsewhen Press, also at Novacon, was drawn to the idea of publishing episodes of One Million Times as short stories in an anthology book form. Thus, a literary project was born, resonating with the original themes of identity confusion, twins and inheritance, unreliable narrators, the central role of memory, the interplay of psychological and physical realities, and the cosmology and physics of time travel. These topics also fascinated Christopher Priest and are explored across his range of novels.

Writing partners R. James Doyle and Rogelio Fojo selected seven of the forty episodes they originally planned for a TV series with a three-season arc, to adapt to short stories. The final magical touch came from the support of a group of talented author and artist friends, renowned in science fiction circles, including Hugo and Nebula award winners, and experienced collaborators on films by Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Tom Hanks, and more. Together, this creative group assembled a dozen astonishing stories about ordinary but desperate present-day people who hear rumours of elusive visitors from the future and determine to pursue them, demanding their help to resolve their problems – with consequences that will “last into endless future times.”

What motivates these alienated persons, and what are the unpredictable dangers of calling on, tracking, seducing, extorting, loving, hating, and even killing our temporal twins? The answers are as varied as the imagination of those driving the time machines through the pages of One Million Times: David Gerrold, R.C. Matheson, Christopher Priest, Teika Marija Smits, Fernando Sorrentino, R. James Doyle, and Rogelio Fojo.