Five stars: The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard (2024) is a debut speculative fiction thought exercise on the ethics of time travel. Odile is at the age when she has to think about her future career. She decides to try for the Conseil, the governing body of the valley that keeps people from traveling to other valleys unsupervised.
Five stars: A Quantum Love Story by Mike Chen (2024) begins with the explosion of a particle accelerator somewhere near San Francisco in the near future. Carter is a technician at Hawke, and although this is our first time through the loop, he knows what to expect. He's been tracking it in notebooks, although the notebooks reset every time but the act of writing it down helps him remember. This time, though, he decides to take a different path, and he runs into Mariana Pinada, setting in motion something that will eventually save the world.
2/23/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
It's the weekend! Who's going on a trip?
Be sure to update your maps.
Be absolutely sure your maps are dated before traveling back in time. If you're going to the future, just go with the flow, like the rest of us. Once the A.I.s figure it out, they'll badly autocorrect your route or dump you in their virtual hallucinations.
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I don't know if it's my favorite, but I read The Green Futures of Tycho as a kid and it was probably the first book that made me consider "change the future" time travel stories might actually be kind of a horror genre. William Sleator's stuff tended to be a mildly unsettling for the tween audience it seemed aimed at. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Futures_of_Tycho
It’s 2014 and Amy Daughters is a forty-six-year old stay-at-home mom living in Dayton, Ohio. She returns to her hometown of Houston over the Thanksgiving holiday to discuss her parents’ estate—and finds herself hurled back in time. Suddenly, it’s 1978, and she is forced to spend thirty-six hours in her childhood home with her nuclear family, including her ten-year old self.
This book definitely had me gripping its pages and wanting to know what was going to happen next. I love a good #mystery#thriller novel, and I also love the concept of #timetravel, so combining the two was perfect. Did I know this book would be about time travel initially? No. I wanted to read it because it's a mystery/thriller. But as soon as Jen woke up on Day Minus One, then Day Minus Two, I knew. At first, I was confused by the frequent time skips and didn't understand why they were so random, but after learning that they may be happening so that Jen can pay more attention to the details of her surroundings and interactions, it made more sense. Like, if you had a chance to go back and do things differently, would you do it?
Ok. You've just discovered a magical camcorder that can travel through space and time. It can record high quality sound and video for one hour. You can only use it three times.