Nick of Time / The Voice of the River
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essentialsaltes The Nick of Time by George Alec Effinger is a rollicking time travel story that does quite a bit of reality bending. Part of it has a bit of the feel of the Jasper Fforde books, as our hero slips into alternate futures. So travelling to 1984 takes him to something a bit like Orwell's version. There's also a touch of 12 Monkeys as our hero from a troubled future goes back to the simpler time of the 1939 World's Fair. Not a great book, and it hasn't aged particularly well (I deem), but some fun ideas and passages.
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The Voice of the River by Melanie Rae Thon
I think I saw this on some best fiction of the year list from way back when. I think the review waxed lyrical about what Wikipedia calls her "work that moves beyond and between genres as it explores diversity from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives." Having sampled it, I can appreciate the effort it must take to write like that, but I just don't find it rewarding. COULD NOT FINISH. I rarely give up on books, so this is a rare accolade [?] from me.
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The Voice of the River by Melanie Rae Thon
I think I saw this on some best fiction of the year list from way back when. I think the review waxed lyrical about what Wikipedia calls her "work that moves beyond and between genres as it explores diversity from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives." Having sampled it, I can appreciate the effort it must take to write like that, but I just don't find it rewarding. COULD NOT FINISH. I rarely give up on books, so this is a rare accolade [?] from me.
