Gracie | On November 2, 2014

Amazon UK

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£0.77 “STAR MACHINE” by William Walkerley

Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Romance

STAR MACHINE (comedy/sci-fi/romance) A nerdy scientist invents a projection system that unexpectedly sends him time traveling to 1930s Hollywood, where he hooks up with an actress who is destined to be famous.

Philip loves old movies, especially those staring the beautiful actresses of the 1930s and 40s. He uses his creation, a 3D holographic projector, to immerse himself into them, until a power surge of electricity rips through the lab, creating a tear in the space/time continuum, and he literally gets sucked him into one of his favorite old Humphrey Bogart movies. Suddenly stranded in the past, but with a cell phone that can communicate with the future, he is fortunate to be befriended by starlet Veronica Lake, who invites him to stay at the boarding house where she lives with fellow starlets Rita Hayworth and Susan Hayward. Philip’s uncanny knowledge of the future soon attracts the attention of the FBI, as well as a gang of Nazi agents. And so Philip finds himself between a rock and a soft place, all the while searching for a portal back to his future. And when he does find the door, he accidentally brings Veronica with him, much to the consternation of his geeky fiancé. A fun story with lots of twists and turns. An homage to cinema of the 30s and 40s.