Authors to Reveal New Book, TV, and Film Adaptation Plans at World Science Fiction Convention Glasgow 2024.
DARTFORD, KENT – 06 August 2024 – Elsewhen Press, an indie publisher specialising in speculative fiction, is delighted to be teaming up with Rogelio Fojo and R. James Doyle for an exciting new project.
A dream project that began with the support of acclaimed British writer Christopher Priest for his Uruguayan filmmaker friend Rogelio Fojo is now brought to life in a captivating book, honouring Priest’s recent passing.
Rogelio once travelled to England to meet his idol, author Christopher Priest, and for the two to present together the premiere of their film collaboration The Stooge (starring Pat Scott and Robert Picardo from Star Trek: Voyager) at Novacon, the UK’s oldest science fiction convention.
This screenplay by Priest – complementing his novel previously adapted into the hit movie The Prestige directed by Christopher Nolan – delved once again into the mysterious world of stage magicians.
During their meeting, the two friends discussed extending the idea of secretive magicians with their shared passion for time travel to new projects – including one Rogelio had already initiated in California with author R. James Doyle, once a scientific consultant for the TV series Babylon 5 and an AI and space technology expert recently retired from JPL/NASA.
In a stroke of synchronicity, indie publisher Elsewhen Press, also at Novacon, was drawn to the idea of publishing episodes of One Million Times as short stories in an anthology book form. Thus, a literary project was born, resonating with the original themes of identity confusion, twins and inheritance, unreliable narrators, the central role of memory, the interplay of psychological and physical realities, and the cosmology and physics of time travel. These topics also fascinated Christopher Priest and are explored across his range of novels.
Writing partners R. James Doyle and Rogelio Fojo selected seven of the forty episodes they originally planned for a TV series with a three-season arc, to adapt to short stories. The final magical touch came from the support of a group of talented author and artist friends, renowned in science fiction circles, including Hugo and Nebula award winners, and experienced collaborators on films by Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Tom Hanks, and more.
Together, this creative group assembled a dozen astonishing stories about ordinary but desperate present-day people who hear rumours of elusive visitors from the future and determine to pursue them, demanding their help to resolve their problems – with consequences that will “last into endless future times.”
What motivates these alienated persons, and what are the unpredictable dangers of calling on, tracking, seducing, extorting, loving, hating, and even killing our temporal twins?
The answers are as varied as the imagination of those driving the time machines through the pages of One Million Times: David Gerrold, R.C. Matheson, Christopher Priest, Teika Marija Smits, Fernando Sorrentino, R. James Doyle, and Rogelio Fojo.
The book will have its official cover reveal this August in Glasgow during Worldcon, where Guest of Honour Chris “Fangorn” Baker (Gravity, Star Wars) will present the beautiful cover that he created for One Million Times.
The event will feature the presence of the series’ creators, Rogelio Fojo and R. James Doyle, and some of the guest authors who contributed: Teika Marija Smits and Nina Allan, representing the late Christopher Priest (whose screenplay for his last film – The Stooge – is included within the pages of One Million Times).
Don’t miss the chance to talk to the authors and discover the book that will become a hit TV series!
Stage Magic Illusions Blend with Time Travel in the new book ONE MILLION TIMES !
Notes for Editors
About One Million Times, the book
A Science Fiction Anthology Series
created by Rogelio Fojo and R. James Doyle
Chronicles of time travellers among us
What happens when we hunt down elusive visitors from the future?
Discover a present where we invite, seduce, trap, love, hate, and even murder… our time-travelling twins.
Short stories by: R. James Doyle, Rogelio Fojo, David Gerrold, R.C. Matheson, Christopher Priest, Teika Marija Smits, Fernando Sorrentino …and more! Cover art by Fangorn
For more about the book visit https://bit.ly/OneMillionTimes
For more about the film / TV series project visit https://onemilliontimes.com/
About Rogelio Fojo
After a successful career as an award-winning journalist and science writer from Uruguay, Rogelio Fojo transitioned to filmmaking. He studied in Los Angeles, gaining hands-on experience with various film crews. With a Kodak grant, he created his debut film, “Chimera”, which won the Best Film Award at the Pasadena Film Festival. Following Kodak’s recommendation, Rogelio joined the IFP/West Project mentoring program and worked on the Hollywood movie “Buying The Cow”, starring Ryan Reynolds.
Rogelio followed “Chimera” with two more award-winning shorts, “Mary” and “The Movie Pitch”. In 2018, he directed the successful film “The Stooge”, written by acclaimed author Christopher Priest (“The Prestige”) and featuring Pat Scott and Robert Picardo (“Star Trek”).
His latest project is the sci-fi and time travel TV series “One Million Times”, developed with JPL scientist R. James Doyle. Elsewhen Press is publishing the series as a short story anthology, expanded with contributions from award-winning sci-fi writers. The book cover, created by artist Chris Baker (aka Fangorn), will be unveiled this August at Worldcon in Glasgow. Rogelio plans to adapt the book for film and TV with British or American producers, driven by his lifelong passion for science fiction and time travel.
About R. James Doyle
R. James Doyle (aka Richard J. Doyle) held technical and managerial roles in Information and Data Science at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) over a career arc spanning forty years. He worked primarily at the exciting interface of space exploration and computer science, with a focus on autonomous space systems. He remains an active technical consultant.
Richard holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a member of a JPL team that consulted on the Babylon 5 sci-fi TV Series in the 1990s. He had the pleasure of visiting Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka, in the year 2001.
Richard wrote the story Disentanglement in the recently published speculative fiction anthology Inner Space and Outer Thoughts by Caltech and JPL authors. His current writing projects include One Million Times, a science fiction anthology series and Limited TV Series exploring rumours of elusive time travellers in our era, in collaboration with independent filmmaker Rogelio Fojo. And the space adventure Raising The Roof, within the Out Of Time Young Adult series created by David Brin, featuring hopeful tales about the future. Also, the speculative thriller The Fifth Wall, about the adventures of a magician who experiences inexplicable phenomena in his own act.
Outside of professional and creative life, Richard enjoys amateur astronomy, pondering quantum physics, and craft beer.
One Million Times project contact: Rogelio Fojo on 1 (603) 606-0848 email: rogefojo@yahoo.com