Foreword BY Jonathan Downes. Time is Happening as we are existing By Mark Antony Raines Availabe on Smashwords.

I’ve always been somewhat intrigued by the idea of time travel. I suppose it actually started when I was about ten years old, and the teacher in my science class at Peak School, Hong Kong, told us all that time (properly space-time) was the fourth dimension. This totally intrigued me, because if you can travel from left to right, forwards and backwards, and up and down, then surely you could also travel backwards and forwards in time. It made perfect logical sense to the ten year old me.
And then I forgot all about it. Well, not forgot, entirely, but it remained in the back of my mind, coming out occasionally for me to stretch my mental tendrils around it, before going back into the back of my mind again.
I first discovered the books of Robert Heimlein when I was at school, but it wasn’t until my late twenties and early thirties that I explored them all. Some of Heimlein’s most impressive, and important, books are based around the concept that one can travel within space-time. Most of these books feature the adventures of a man called Lazarus Long, who, for reasons that I haven’t got space to go into here, is/was/will be the oldest man alive. These books are interesting exercises in fiction construction. By taking away two of the most fundamental constraints upon mankind – mortality and the practical impossibility of travelling in time – these stories explored a completely new (for me, at least) range of possibilities.
They coincided with my interest in alternate history; the idea that somewhere in a quantum reality some relatively minor thing occurred which meant that the whole of human history subsequent to that relatively minor event, took an entirely different path. Because, if one could hypothetically travel in space-time, one could also, equally hypothetically travel between realities on a quantum level, and – indeed – Heimlein’s 1980 novel, ‘The Number of the Beast’ did just that. With the protagonists being chased from their own quantum reality into a series of others, eventually ending up in the same quantum reality as the aforementioned Lazarus Long and his family; characters who – until then, for the protagonists - had only existed in the pages of storybooks.
This introduced me to the concept of ‘World as Myth’; something which has intrigued me both as a Fortean investigator and as – in a relatively minor way – an author of low fantasy myself. ‘World as Myth’ is the idea that, as soon as somebody invents a world for a story, whether written, cinematic, or verbal, it actually becomes ‘real’ somewhere on a quantum level. In ‘The Number of the Beast’, for example, the protagonists visit the world of Alice in Wonderland, Oz (Frank Baum’s fantasy creation, not the slightly dubious hippy underground magazine) and – briefly – the storybook world of King Arthur. The idea that one can ‘think’ a world into existence ties in quite closely with the concept of the Noosphere as promulgated by Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, and others including my old mate, Steve Moore (no relation), and the combination of this idea that something can become ‘real’ purely because one decided that it is, with the idea that one can “break the fourth wall” of reality, by going backwards and forwards in time outside one’s own allotted lifespan, is both a bewitching and a frightening prospect....https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/9505689