Lost Time (Boyes)

For fans of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and the Matrix-a mind-bending sci-fi action blockbuster that'll keep you guessing all the way to the end.They say you never forget the first time you die.Toronto Police Service Detective Finsbury Gage knows this better than anyone. Now that he's gone digital, he sees his death every time he closes his eyes-he and his wife, smeared across the highway after a malfunctioning bit-head ran them down in a stolen urban assault vehicle. He hung together long enough for the Second Skyn recovery team to rescue his fading thoughts from his ruined body and implant them in a custom-grown bioSkyn. His wife wasn't so lucky.Finsbury's been gifted a second chance, but the only thing keeping him from blowing his plastic brains out is that 2.57 seconds of vivid memory running on repeat through his head, the one that contains a instant's glimpse of his killer's face. The police couldn't find him, and now the only evidence is locked up in Finsbury's brand new head.Driven to find this man, Finsbury falls into a dangerous underworld of hackable minds and enhanced bodies, where death is cheap, and memory all that matters. But once he's tasted the power of living at the speed of light, able to predict seconds into the future, how will he ever go back? And once he's relaxed his grip on humanity, how far will he let it slip in the name of finding justice for his wife?Finsbury's going to find the man who stole his future, no matter what he has to do.Or who he has to become.***Second Skyn is the first book in the Lost Time series, a hard-edged cyberpunk noir in the spirit of Phillip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson. If you love your sci-fi relentless and armed with twists, this is what you've been looking for.

To find out who he is, he must discover who he became.Finsbury Gage will do anything to find the man who murdered his wife. He'll withhold information from his superiors in the Psychorithm Crime Unit. He'll cut corners. He'll steal evidence. He'll even augment his prosthetic brain with illegal code.But once he's tasted the power of living at the speed of thought, able to predict seconds into the future, how will he ever go back? And once he's relaxed his grip on humanity, how far will he let it slip to find justice for his wife?He'll find out eight months later, when he wakes once again in a new body with a new name and no memory of his first restoration. He soon discovers he was somehow involved in a series of mindjackings, his friends and colleagues disappeared or locked-up for crimes they don't remember committing. And the person behind them is still out there. Hunting for him.To find out who he is, Finsbury Gage will have to discover who he became--but will he be able to live with himself when he does?Neuroshyft is the second book in the Lost Time series, a mind-bending sci-fi noir in the spirit of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer.

He can't trust anyone, not even himself.Finsbury Gage doesn't know who he is. Is he the man who lost his wife and burned the world down hunting her murderer--or is he the man who lost his wife and returned to ashes?He's thrown his life away, sacrificed everything to find the man who killed his wife. He thinks he has the answers--but he doesn't know how wrong he is. Fin's heading for a showdown, and only one of him can survive.Rithmsync is the third book in the Lost Time series, a mind-bending sci-fi noir in the spirit of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer. If you love your sci-fi relentless and armed with twists, this is the series you've been looking for.

Finsbury Gage is terrified of what's inside him.He's been dead more than once, and haunted now by the memories of lives he never lived. All he wants to do is hide--from a world he doesn't belong to and the person he doesn't recognize--until he's forced from his self-imposed exile by a threat the police can't handle and a request he can't refuse.A girl has gone missing. Arrived in the big city from the Preserves and immediately disappeared. Her brother's come looking for her, and while a lifetime on a farm hasn't prepared him to navigate the dangerous Reszo underworld, he's not about to let that or anything else stop him from finding his sister.Finsbury will be drawn into a hunt for a killer no one believes in. Someone who doesn't just kill--he steals the thoughts of his victims and makes them part of himself.Finsbury Gage is about to meet Winter, and neither of them will ever be the same.Winter Overrun is the fourth book in the Lost Time series, a mind-bending sci-fi noir in the spirit of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer.

In this game, death is the only escape.Decimation Island is the hottest sport in the world, a hundred-hour battle royale fight to the death, and Anika "AniK@" Reyes just became its biggest star-except this isn't how she planned it.Seconds away from winning her tenth game in a row, becoming the first person ever to survive a thousand hours and earning herself millions in prizes, she turned her gun on herself and ended her own run.No one knows why, including Anika. But she's determined to find out.And while Finsbury Gage isn't much into sports these days, or doing much more than hiding in his head with the ghost of his dead wife, when an old friend asks him to investigate Anika's try-outs for the New Gladiator fighting league, he can't refuse.His quest to uncover the truth behind Anika's aborted run on Decimation Island will pull him into the high stakes world of professional video gaming, a race to find a stolen shipment of weapons-grade bioSkyns, and the messy complications of an unexpected connection.But Decimation Island protects its secrets well, and to find them Finsbury and Anika will need to work together-if they can keep from killing each other first.Decimation Island is the fifth book in the blockbuster sci-fi series Lost Time.

For fans of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and the Matrix, the complete first trilogy of the stunning sci-fi series Lost Time-a mind-bending action blockbuster that'll keep you guessing all the way to the end.They say you never forget the first time you die.Finsbury Gage knows this better than anyone. Now that he's gone digital, he sees his death every time he closes his eyes-he and his wife, smeared across the highway after a malfunctioning bit-head ran them down in a stolen urban assault vehicle. He hung together long enough for the Second Skyn recovery team to rescue his fading thoughts from his ruined body and implant them in a custom-grown bioSkyn. His wife wasn't so lucky.With his salvaged mind uploaded to a state of-the-art replacement body, feeling better than new, Fin is dumped back into his life-and quickly falls into a dangerous underworld of plastic minds and enhanced bodies, where death is cheap, and memory all that matters. And now that his brain is on speed dial, he's replaying his last thoughts over and over, tormented by his wife's final scream and the split-second image of her killer's face. Finsbury's going to find the man who stole his future, no matter what he has to do.Or who he has to become.***The Lost Time series is a hard-edged cyberpunk noir in the spirit of Phillip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson. If you love your sci-fi relentless and armed with twists, this is what you've been looking for.***Here's what people are saying:"Mashup Alice in Wonderland, Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Matrix and smatter it with some Larry Niven and you'll start to get a feeling for how many tracks this collection will have you on.. all at the same time and all at breakneck speed...Be prepared for what you can't prepare yourself for and you'll be richly rewarded." - Amazon.com Review"Highly recommended for binge reading..." - Amazon.com Review"Absolutely Riveting..." - Amazon.com Review"A great concept and excellent writing. I think this just might be my new favorite series." - Amazon.com Review"Scary technology and a ripping story-line..." - Amazon.co.uk Review"This book is brilliant." - Amazon.ca Review"Today we see that a compelling premise, revealed quickly, can suck readers right down the rabbit hole...and so far I am 100% hooked and chasing the rabbit as deep and as fast as the story hole will let me." - Jefferson Smith, CreativityHacker.ca