The Future of Another Timeline
時間旅行が可能になった世界で、研究者テスと一九九〇年代の少女ベスの物語が交差する長編SF。女性の権利を守ろうと過去を編集する者たちと、歴史を別方向へ固定しようとする勢力の戦いを描く。
作品情報
歴史は固定されたものではなく、誰が未来を変える権利を持つのかを問う物語。
Tor Books から二〇一九年に刊行された長編。テスは歴史の重要な地点へ移動し、女性たちにとってよりよい未来を作ろうとする。一方、一九九二年のベスは、暴力と死体遺棄をきっかけに、少女たちだけの危うい連帯へ踏み込んでいく。二つの時代の物語が重なり、時間旅行、身体の自由、歴史を変える責任が問われる。
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複数の時間線と政治的怒りを結びつけながら、読みやすい冒険小説としても成立している点が評価されている。複雑な設定を終盤で結び直す構成も強みとされる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- TOR BOOKS
- 発売日
- 2019-09-24
- ページ数
- 352ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.48 x 3.2 x 21.82 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780765392107
- ISBN-10
- 0765392100
- 価格
- 4698 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction/Adventure
“ A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard ." --Wil Wheaton From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9 , comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love. 1992 : After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022 : Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline--a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? Praise for The Future of Another Timeline : " An intelligent, gut-wrenching glimpse of how tiny actions, both courageous and venal, can have large consequences. Smart and profound on every level .” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) " You close the book reeling with questions about your own life and your part in changing the future ." — Amy Acker, actress ( Angel and Person of Interest )
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Fascinating Time Travel Story
I picked this book up since I had enjoyed the worldbuilding of Autonomous, as well as a short story from Hieroglyph from this author. I also am a big fan of time travel stories. I very much enjoyed this book. The story treats the span of time like a wikipedia entry, where people could go back and make edits here and there, affecting the future. There are groups each trying to change the arc of history in one way or another, and it’s fascinating to see how they do it. It does mainly revolve around women’s rights over the years, and jumps to a few different time periods in history. It’s very much in the theme of The Handmaid’s Tale, with time travel. The method of time travel was also very unique and quite interesting. I definitely read through this book quickly, since it was so interesting. There are also some notes at the end of the book, discussing how characters were modeled from historical figures.
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Fun and thought-provoking
Great story, very interesting premise!
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Han sido muy rápidos.
Muy bien. Lo he recibido en poco tiempo.
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Excellent book.
I really enjoyed reading this book, it was an easy read and the story was interesting. Rated 5 stars because I couldn't put it down. I was going to give it 4 stars because I wanted to know more about the characters stories but that didn't seem fair.
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Goed boek
Prima leesbaar boek, goed uitgewerkt. Schatplichtig aan Margaret Atwoods De Dienstmaagd.
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