Timescape
Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner.
Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780671833893 (0671833898)
Publish date: 1981-06-01
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 366
Edition language: English
The mixed reviews of this book fascinate me! I am wondering of this is due to how hard it is to understand the hard science. I am not a theoretical physicist, so my own understanding probably didn't even scratch the surface. But I became fascinated with the idea of sending messages to the past and c...
The potential time paradoxes are acknowledged and explained. Using separate narrators for each time period added to the listening pleasure.The book leaves none of the science to chance and explains it better than any science book for non-scientist.You'll get a good coherent communication across time...
This tale of future (at the time the book was published) scientists struggling to prevent an environmental disaster spoke to my idealist, liberal, college girl heart while at the same time scratching my time travel itch. Fun stuff, although I'm not sure it would hold up well if I re-read it now.