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Chargement... Version Control: A Novel (édition 2016)par Dexter Palmer (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The only book to deal with the need to account for Earth's movement through space when traveling through time. (Sorry. I just needed to acknowledge that, because it's something that has bugged me for decades.) This is one of those books which, in addition to having an engaging plot, offers up lots of little observations about life and people which should bear remembering. (The downside of audiobooks is that it can be hard to mark those tidbits when listening while doing other things. So I don't have any examples to offer up.) [Audiobook note: January LaVoy is a magnificent reader.] This one was just okay... I read this book because I thought it was a science fiction book about time travel! Turns out, it is only pseudo-science fiction. Actually, it is more like contemporary fiction about a failing marriage after the couple's child dies, but one of the main characters is a scientist working on a time machine. The set-up took forever but I kept plugging away because I was promised an epic time travel twist. But... that never really came. The ending felt rushed and was quite dissatisfying. Also, there is a lot of profanity, alcohol and drug abuse mentioned, some sexual content, evolutionary theories referenced as fact, and disdain for religion. If this had been advertised for what it is - that is, not science fiction - I think I would have been less disappointed. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the Internet dating site where she first met her husband. However, she has a persistent, strange sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; and each night she has disquieting dreams that may or may not be related to her husband Philip's pet project. Philip's decade-long dedication to the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you do not call a time machine ) has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or imagines . . .
A woman deals with a strange and persistent sense of everything being slightly off, which may or may not be related to her scientist husband's pet project, a "causality violation device" that might actually be working. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion avec l'auteurDexter Palmer a discuté avec les utilisateurs de LibraryThing du Mar 22, 2010 au Apr 4, 2010. Lire la discussion. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Other layers of dislocation are added on, taking the novel from "genre" to "literary sci-fi". This passage stuck out for me, from the point of view of "Carson", an African-American physicist - possibly an alter-ego for the author to some degree? ( )