Daniel Godfrey
Auteur de New Pompeii
Œuvres de Daniel Godfrey
String quartet no. 2 String quartet no. 3 ; Romanza 1 exemplaire
Paginula for Violin, Piano 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Derbyshire, England, UK
- Études
- Cambridge (Emmanuel College)
- Agent
- Ian Drury (Sheil Land Associates)
Lydia Gittins (Titan Books)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 186
- Popularité
- #116,758
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
This sci-fi-ish time travel novel was a quick throw-away read.
A tech company has figured out the secret to time travel, at least one-way time travel, bringing people from the past into the future. In order to avoid anomalies, however, the company has thus far only used the technology to bring forward people who are about to die anyway, beginning with the people on a plane that was about to crash.
The current big project, the subject of the book, is that the entire city of Pompei has been extracted into the current day from immediately prior to the eruption. In order not to blow the Pompeians minds they are brought to an exact replica of Pompei (which they cannot leave), and told they have been saved by the emperor and the gods who represent the emperor. Things are not going entirely well, however, as the Pompeians have a few suspicions.
Nick Houghton, failed doctoral candidate in history, is brought on board to study the Pompeians and to report any problems that occur.
I enjoyed the aspects of this book about what day-to-day life in ancient Pompei was like--the customs of the Pompeians, how their houses were organized etc., although I have no idea how well-researched or accurate this was. The intrigue involving the tech company and its various owners, employees and enemies, I found to be a bit silly. There's a sequel to this, and while this book kept me reading, I won't go on with the sequel.
2 1/2 stars… (plus d'informations)