The core concept of ‘Being not Being’ underpins Jake Jackson’s sf and fantasy fiction. Alongside other notions of Time, and Will, it allows the exploration of the universe before the Big Bang event, in quantum fields and out beyond the limits of the expanding universe. An object can both ‘be something’ and ‘not be something’ (else). At a simple level a …
Concepts | Field of Time
These are part of a sequence of illustrations to show the hubs, nodes and connections across a field of Time, a concept used in Jake Jackson’s forthcoming sf and fantasy stories in Echoes in Time, Fireflies on a Distant Planet, Fibonacci Rising and Graveyard Planet. Each node is a moment, a time event. The nodes are connected across two dimensions on paper, …
Concepts | Perceptions of Time
Here’s another new graphic designed to explain core concepts used in the forthcoming sf and fantasy books by Jake Jackson, particularly concerning the beginnings of the universe, and notions of time and space. This illustration show a series of time nodes (or time events) turning on a spindle, operating both as a series of clock mechanisms, and as part of a larger pendulum motion, governed …
Concepts | Indra’s Net
One of a number of new graphics designed to explain core concepts used in the forthcoming sf and fantasy books by Jake Jackson, particularly concerning the beginnings of the universe, and notions of time and space. These illustrations show three different views of the same concept, which is time as a net, with nodes (time events) strung as knots between ropes, connected above and below. This …