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kilroyPrint date: 1973 (20s: 1, 60s: 2, 70s: 3, 80s: 4, 90s: 3, 00s: 6)
I'm having some difficulty coming up with something meaningful to say for this review. I liked the book well enough, but I will likely have entirely forgotten it in five years. It has an engaging beginning, a clever ending, and a middle that drags somewhat. It's a solid entry into the broader time-travel canon.
I think what pulled me in was something really simple: the people are actually affected by the science fiction. A lot of this type of work just has the characters existing in a world where stuff that's foreign to us is commonplace to them. They're the same sort of characters that exist in any other kind of fiction, just with the background changed to include rayguns and aliens. But in this case the evolution of the characters would be utterly impossible without the science fiction; their emotional journeys are unique to their circumstances. And that's incredibly rare.
Verdict: Worth reading once, will recycle. (11/30 keepers)
Page count: 176 (6780 total)
Completed: 19 (9 female authors, 10 male authors)
Rejected: 11 (6 male authors, 5 female authors)
Next book due: 6/20
I'm having some difficulty coming up with something meaningful to say for this review. I liked the book well enough, but I will likely have entirely forgotten it in five years. It has an engaging beginning, a clever ending, and a middle that drags somewhat. It's a solid entry into the broader time-travel canon.
I think what pulled me in was something really simple: the people are actually affected by the science fiction. A lot of this type of work just has the characters existing in a world where stuff that's foreign to us is commonplace to them. They're the same sort of characters that exist in any other kind of fiction, just with the background changed to include rayguns and aliens. But in this case the evolution of the characters would be utterly impossible without the science fiction; their emotional journeys are unique to their circumstances. And that's incredibly rare.
Verdict: Worth reading once, will recycle. (11/30 keepers)
Page count: 176 (6780 total)
Completed: 19 (9 female authors, 10 male authors)
Rejected: 11 (6 male authors, 5 female authors)
Next book due: 6/20