Time Crawlers by Varun Sayal

Time Crawlers by Varun Sayal
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Paranormal, Action/Adventure, Contemporary, Historical
Length: Short Story (100 pages)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

Stories
1. Nark-astra, The Hell Weapon: The weapons he possesses make him the destroyer of worlds, and he burns for revenge. A high-tech take on ancient Indian mythology.

2. Death by Crowd: The dark desires of the masses; darknet websites fueled by a crypto-currency. What lurks in the background – an advanced artificial intelligence?

3. Genie: He rubbed a lamp alright, but what he got was the shock of his life. An entirely sci-fi take on the djinn myth.

4. Time Crawlers: There are individuals who existing in multiple time periods at once, and there are those who know about them….

5. Eclipse: No attacks, no blood-shed, yet there was an invasion and a conquest. Who are these shapeshifter aliens being hounded by an eclipse?
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6. The Cave: The fate of an advanced imperial race hangs in balance as a dark celestial entity meets a legendary protector.

First impressions aren’t always accurate.

The main character in “Eclipse” learned that aliens had arrived on Earth and infiltrated the highest levels of government. He joined a resistance movement and prepared to denote a special type of bomb that would kill all of the intruders. As interested as I was in the plot, I was distracted by the fact that the protagonist chose to reveal almost nothing about his life. His name and backstory remained a mystery, and his personality was hard to figure out as well. That made it difficult for me to connect to him or become invested in his fate.

In “Death by Crowd,” an entrepreneur explained why the people their company hired would agree to light themselves on fire and die in front of a large audience in order to make a great deal of money. The premise of this tale caught my attention immediately, and it made me shudder. I was especially intrigued by the contrast between the terrible deaths this character described and how calm they were while they discussed the business aspects of this form of entertainment. The twist at the end was written nicely, too.

After becoming lost in the jungle, a man named Marco discovered a magical lamp in “Genie” that might give him the opportunity to go home again. The genie this character awoken wasn’t at all what he was expecting, and that was when the plot became very interesting. I loved seeing the practical consequences of a world where people could make outlandish wishes and have them come true. This was explored from scientific, mathematic, and sociological perspectives, so the long term effects of iit all went places I never would have expected them to go.

A transcription of a conversation between a man named Jokie and a Historical Scientist was the basis for “Time Crawlers.” They were discussing how it was possible for two events that happened thousands of years apart to be brought together into the same moment by someone who experienced time differently from the average person. I liked the premise of this one quite a bit, but the storyline was hard to follow at times due to the limited perspectives of the characters who were talking about it. It would have been helpful to have more details about what was happening and how it would be possible for anyone to manipulate time so that two different eras could exist simultaneously.

The conversational style of “The Cave” worked better for this reader. It was about an army general and a consultant who were trying to determine how to respond after a team of soldiers went into a cave and never came out of it again. The only clue about their fate lay in the terrible screams some witnesses heard before all communication between them and the outside world ended for good. I enjoyed learning the cave’s backstory and guessing what could possibly be hidden within it. Not only did the twist make perfect sense, the hints about it were a lot of fun to put together.

There were times when I found it a little hard to follow the plot of “Nark-Astra.” Prayaschakit, the main character, was planning to use a rare and powerful weapon in order to win a battle with the king of a country he hoped to take for himself. So many new terms were introduced in the storyline that I had trouble keeping track of all of them, especially since some of them weren’t explained in a lot of detail. With that being said, I still found the descriptions of how the weapon worked to be quite interesting. It had many painful and dangerous side effects that the audience did get to read about in detail.

Time Crawlers was an eclectic collection of short stories that I’d recommend to anyone who enjoys modern science fiction.