Shiv’s Timeline Verse is a speculative sci-fi trilogy that blends humor, suspense, and emotional depth, following the accidental journey of Shiv, a data analyst who inherits more than just a garage from his eccentric uncle Rishi. When Shiv activates a strange wrist device hidden in Rishi’s lab, he’s yanked through a portal and thrown into a dystopian future torn apart by temporal rifts, surveillance wars, and collapsing timelines. Each part explores a different stage of Shiv’s unraveling reality.
In Book 1: The Future Stole My Weekend, Shiv navigates a war-ridden city of the future where memory is currency and survival depends on forming unlikely alliances—including with a sharp-tongued rebel kid named Jix and an archivist named Venn.
In Book 2: The Past Stole My Exit, Shiv is forced to revisit manipulated versions of his own memories, confront the truth behind the device's origin, and face Elsie—a version of someone he once loved—only to realize time doesn’t heal, it folds.
In Book 3: The Loop That Lied to Me, Shiv must challenge the system that built the loop in the first place. As timelines glitch and identities blur, Shiv must decide: does he close the loop, escape it, or rewrite the rules?
This trilogy isn't just about time travel—it's about the cost of remembering, the pain of forgetting, and the courage to choose chaos over control when the future is already broken.
Shiv Bhowmik is a Hyderabad-based data analyst and author whose creative world-building blends science fiction, emotional introspection, and literary flair. With a deep-rooted interest in memory, survival, and identity, Shiv crafts speculative tales that resonate with young and adult readers alike. His debut literary fiction novel, When the Sky Fell Gold, explored four parallel lives of redemption and loss. His recently released romance novel Colaba Nights (Vol I) captures the poetry of urban love and personal reinvention. Timeline Verse marks his foray into children's and young teen fiction, mixing dystopia, time travel, and heartfelt companionship in a format designed for both page and screen.