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S'està carregant… Here and Now and Then (edició 2019)de Mike Chen
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 4.5 stars. Review to come. ( ) Well-developed characters and a crisply-moving plot make this time-travel tale an engaging, rewarding read. If you grant Chen the future-reality of time-travel, the underlying mechanisms of controlling access and managing those who would change history for their own benefit are well-thought-out and logical. Chen doesn’t go for the standby plotline here – no one is trying to prevent Lincoln’s assassination or create a fatal “accident” for an adolescent Hitler. The plot revolves around Kin Stewart, a “time-cop”, if you will, whose job is to go backward in the Alpha timeline of his universe and apprehend or eliminate the meddlers who are mostly attempting to enrich their 22nd-century selves by jiggering 21st-century business deals. When he is injured in one of these attempts, the device meant to return him to his own timeline is damaged, and he’s stuck in 1996 with no way home. The meat of the story gets rolling 18 years later, when another agent from Temporal Control (where only 14 days have passed in the Alpha timeline) shows up to collect him. The problem is, Kin has built a life in his new here-and-now, which includes a wife and daughter, and going “home” means leaving them behind, forever. His struggles to deal with living in two mutually incompatible realities and his attempts to make things right both with the daughter he feels he abandoned and the responsibilities of his Alpha timeline life lead him to make decisions which will endanger both. The characters are all nicely done, and Chen keeps the time-loop anomalies to a minimum while still predicating multiple futures for Kin’s 21st-century family, each one based on how or whether he is able to reach back through time to influence events. The success of the story’s conclusion will depend on the reader’s ability to wrap their mind around some of the odder possibilities of time travel. This reader found it a unique and wonderful sleight-of-hand that utilized nuggets buried early in the text. Nicely done, Mr. Chen! Years ago, while on a top secret mission time traveling from the year 2142 into the past, Kin became stranded in 1996. Though he waited and waited for rescue, apparently none was forthcoming, so he resigned himself to his situation and attempted to live as normal a life as he could, establishing for himself a career, marrying, and having a child. Now, eighteen years later, someone finally arrives to retrieve him, but his heart breaks as he must leave his family behind against his will. This story was immediately riveting, and the writing was excellent. There are a lot of things for the reader to ponder — philosophical, moral, existential, and otherwise. Not sure why this book isn't more popular. I really enjoyed it and will be recommending it to my 14yo daughter as well. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML:From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood A Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 Semifinalist One of BookBub's Best Science Fiction Books of 2019 One of Book Riot's Best Books of 2019 So Far One of The Nerd Daily's Best Debut Novels of 2019 Featured in The Millions "A Year in Reading" One of Entropy's Best Fiction Books of 2019 He'll go anywhere and any when to save his daughter Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career...as a time-traveling secret agent from over a century in the future. Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, until one afternoon, his "rescue" team arrives??eighteen years too late. Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he's been gone only weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can't remember. Torn between two lives, Kin's desperate efforts to stay connected to both will threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself. With his daughter's very existence at risk, he will have to take one final trip to save her??even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process. "Heartfelt and thrilling... Chen's concept is unique, and [his characters'] agony is deeply moving. Quick pacing, complex characters, and a fascinating premise."??Publishers Weekly, starred review No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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