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Future of Another Timeline
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Annalee Newitz
BrianLT
, September 11, 2019
I really loved Autonomous, Newitz's first novel and when I read the preview for this I was even more excited. Time-travel, social commentary and strong relationships? Awesome. While the recent This Is How You Lose The Time War was a time travel tale from multiple perspectives, that was more a meditation on connection and love and this is more of a well paced reflection on current politics and our own impact on the world. Tess and Beth find themselves on different ends of an interaction at a concert in 1992 that changes both of their lives in different, but intertwining ways. Beth has a single moment in time that drastically redirects her trajectory. Tess meanwhile is attempting to create a better present in her future through time travel. It's a fun, thoughtful and timely read. Grab it!
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
BrianLT
, July 16, 2019
A time travel novel that is about a war, but not really; nor is it really about the opposing forces and their reasons for fighting. It's about an agent of each side Red from the Agency and Blue from the Garden. Each faction believes it's version of a healthy future is the only way to survive, and the way humanity must persevere. Agency is very tech focused and the Garden is nature focused. Both groups fight by sending their operatives to different Strands (think of a multiverse) to make small adjustments to bring about slightly different outcomes that will have a butterfly effect on the timeline. Red and Blue are overlapping, haunting each other's missions and slightly sabotaging each other, and have been for awhile. When they start communicating with each other through over the top coded messages (i.e. burn a message before reading!) their dynamic changes. A sci-fi book not about war, not actually about the future, but about two sides caught in opposition to each other that journey towards something different.
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