Book finished, well, finished with: The Time Traveller's Almanac
30/08/2014
Borrowed as a follow-on from research while compiling my recent post on Science Fiction, this anthology is so compendious at over 1200 pages containing sixty-five short stories and five essays that I was unable to finish all the stories within the borrowing limit of three weeks.
As it is a collection, I wasn't worried when the loan expired; after that long, I'm quite ready for something else. They started the Preface with a great quote from Stephen Hawking: "'I gave a party for time-travellers, but I didn't send out the invitations until after the party. I sat there a long time, but no one came." (From an interview with Ars Technica) At such a length, there is room to cover a great breadth of time (ha-ha), with stories going back to even before H G Wells. There is also such a variety of writing styles and approaches to the subect that I never found myself thinking "What, MORE time travel?" There is a list of contents avalable here at Wikipedia's entry for the book. Often, reviewers will describe a book as one you can "dip into", and although I have never owned a book like that, I guess this would qualify as one of those. (Although the kind of brain I have would not allow me to be so random!) |
Over all, a good, varied and comprehensive collection of interest to any reader.
Read as an e-book borrowed from Auckland Libraries via Overdrive, on my Kobo Touch e-reader.