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Analogue Day

Jason Ranford (2013)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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Analogue Paranormal adventure novel begs serious How Would Someone Cope if their TV Could Predict the Future?Written by Jason Ranford, ‘Analogue Day’ weaves fact around fiction to tell the gripping story of a family who discover a television in their attic that can warn of future events. Moral dilemmas, terrorism and the government collide as this compelling discovery threatens falling into the wrong hands. Readers will be left questioning how they would use the information and if they would even divulge it to anyone at all… – Television is usually just a passive past-time but, for the family in Jason Ranford’s new novel, the discovery of very special television thrusts them into a world of unusual circumstances and dangers.Everything plays out in ‘Analogue Day’; a light-hearted adventure novel that simultaneously leaves readers with plenty to think about in the real the Hamilton family move into their new home in Cedar Grove, Connecticut, they think that all their troubles are behind them. Then one day, young Timothy discovers a clip of ancient dinosaurs roaming around the earth on an old portable television set while looking around in the upstairs attic. At first, his parents dismiss the transmission as nothing more than an old film or reimagining of the prehistoric past. But as they continue to receive strange messages from the past, they begin to wonder if the transmissions are in fact real. Then one evening they discover a broadcast of a passenger plane and its flight details a week before it explodes in mid-air. They then see a broadcast of a train leaving a railway station a few days before it is involved in a terrible crash. Could someone from the future really be sending messages back to the past warning of events yet to occur? What starts out as an innocent curiosity soon sets off a frightening and disturbing chain of events as the family try to warn the authorities of disasters and dangers that will soon come to pass and face a race for their own survival