Imagine the world inside your favorite book. Go to the other side of the looking glass with Alice or go into the Da Vinci Code and help Robert Langdon uncover hidden ciphers… all from your computer or smart phone while you kindle a real book or your Kindle. Actually, since you can discuss your favorite novel online with readers all over the world while you explore extended material and interact with the novel’s imaginary world, it’s not a book, it’s not a video game, nor a bird, nor a plane… it’s a super… webory? Well, that’s what Michael De’Shazer is calling his upcoming serial novel which comes with a complimentary… you guessed it… time machine app.

If you’ve never heard of Michael De’Shazer, which up until now you probably haven’t, he’s a 21-year-old software developer and fiction writer with three self-published novels (www.parkbenchwriter.com). He has also contributed as a blogger on the magazine’s site, blogging on small business development. Currently enrolled in Harvard extension graduate studies while in his last year of undergraduate studies, De’Shazer is a living, breathing paradox… but a delightful one.

In 2009, De’Shazer, unable to support himself and pay his way through school from online book sales, fell back onto his second passion: computer programming. This would appear to be a 180-degree flip, but for a living paradox, perhaps it comes in the line of duty.

After developing software systems for retail operations in New York while in school, De’Shazer, 21, decided to write another book, based off of his Senior independent work study. He is currently working on what he proposed to his current supervising professor to be a “space-time continuum simulation in a Java runtime environment.” He was given the green light for his work study in January after submitting his paper.

So, what of this simulation software? De’Shazer is currently at work integrating the software into his new serial novel, which is available free online. For this book, he is claiming that the accompanying app “should facilitate time travel.” Moreover, you guessed it: He says “you have to read the book to find out how.”

He Will Come As A Thief (www.hewillcomeasathief.com) is what he’s calling his first “webory.” The webory allows the reader to interact with the development of the time machine, just as the main character (so far a nameless narrator) writes the last telegraph during what seems to be a dawn of an Apocalypic period. Whether it will be hot or a flop, only time will tell for his webory. Until then, it appears we have to just sit and wait until his time machine is available for full-release in December, and not just for preview as it is currently. If one thing is for sure, this voice of an emerging new generation of writers does not lack imagination.