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Contingency and Time Travel
Jul. 17th, 2013 12:08 amJan 2013
Blackout - Connie Willis - Gollancz, 2012
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Although her stories often involve time travel and keep winning Hugos and Nebulas, Connie Willis is not, I humbly submit, a true science fiction writer. Not that this matters of course. Her interest is primarily in the history of the period to which she sends her characters and less in the details of how they get there, which are normally kept sensibly vague. In this book, however, the mechanics form an important part of the story, which is perhaps unfortunate as her take on time travel doesn't really convince. But her depiction of the second world war is brilliant, and I probably wouldn't have read it without the science fiction trimmings. So I guess it works.
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Blackout - Connie Willis - Gollancz, 2012
* * * *
Although her stories often involve time travel and keep winning Hugos and Nebulas, Connie Willis is not, I humbly submit, a true science fiction writer. Not that this matters of course. Her interest is primarily in the history of the period to which she sends her characters and less in the details of how they get there, which are normally kept sensibly vague. In this book, however, the mechanics form an important part of the story, which is perhaps unfortunate as her take on time travel doesn't really convince. But her depiction of the second world war is brilliant, and I probably wouldn't have read it without the science fiction trimmings. So I guess it works.
( Read more... )