British Science Fiction Association Awards

Bad Timing and Other Stories

A blackly comic short story built around time travel. A character's fascination with a woman in a photograph turns temporal displacement into an irony of missed chances and irreversibility.

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Work Information

A love across time slips between comedy and cruelty.

Bad Timing first appeared in a magazine and was later collected in Bad Timing and Other Stories. It turns the device of time travel into a bitterly comic story of desire and failure, characteristic of Molly Brown's fiction.

Review Summaries

The story is appreciated for handling humor and cruelty at once. It presents a strange idea lightly while sharply exposing selfishness and the hazards of imagination.

Book Information

Publisher: Big Engine
Published: 2001-02-01
Pages: 288 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
ISBN-13: 9781903468067
ISBN-10: 190346806X
Price: 8320 JPY
Category: 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction/Anthologies

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Reviews

Time For Me To retire from Reviewing!!!

Noted that all the reviews for this collection of short stories are wonderful, it therefore pains me to admit that I haven't got a clue about what is good and what isn't. I found the stories different, I agree, but no different to all the many other short story collections that I've read, in that I found them totally unfulfilling. In most cases the short story is either horrible - you know those little beauties that leave you hanging in mid-air at the end, awaiting a decent finish - or they're good and when it finishes you're left begging for more. This collection, I found, was somewhere in between - quirky, but in trying to turn to the next page you find the story has simply ended. Sorry, still searching for that elusive "Holy Grail" collection of wholely satisfying short stories. This isn't it.