Book #81 of 2021: Faye, Faraway by Helen Fisher For the most part, this novel (published in certain countries under the alternate title Space Hopper) is simply a lovely story about a woman time-traveling back to visit with the mother who passed away when she was a young girl. I appreciate how the narrative doesn’t …
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Book #1 of 2021: Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: All Flesh is Grass by Una McCormack The second and final Time Lord Victorious novel offers a generally satisfying resolution to this sprawling Doctor Who multimedia experiment, although there are still a few open areas that will likely be shaded in by future releases of some …
Book #234 of 2020: Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead by Steve Cole This is the first novel in Time Lord Victorious, a multimedia Doctor Who event unfolding over books, comics, Big Finish audio dramas, and more. It’s also the first title so far to feel like it’s taking …
Book #72 of 2020: Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore I really adore this high-concept book about a woman who travels to a different year of her life every birthday at midnight. (When she turns nineteen, she finds herself in her fifty-one-year-old body, and so on.) The inherent drama of interacting with loved ones …
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Book #30 of 2020: Throwback by Peter Lerangis (Throwback #1) I love the character interactions and the depiction of historical New York City in this middle-grade time-travel adventure, but it’s maybe a bit overstuffed with plot. (The hero is nominally trying to save his grandmother from dying on September 11th, but he spends most of …
Book #7 of 2020: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz This novel’s premise of rival factions aiming to change history to suit themselves sounds a little like This Is How You Lose the Time War, but I think I actually prefer its emotional grounding and queer punk aesthetic over that other story’s wild-yet-oblique …
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Book #248 of 2019: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley Another novel that hooks me on its premise but somewhat loses me in the execution. I love the idea of teleporting soldiers coming unstuck along their personal timelines, experiencing their combat missions all out of order. It’s a genre twist on the jumbled chronologies in …
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Book #178 of 2019: Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield (Alice Payne #1) Although this novella about rival factions of time-travelers isn’t as mind-bending or as inventive with the concept as the similarly-focused This Is How You Lose the Time War, it’s still a lot of fun and offers some great character moments throughout. Alice …
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Book #167 of 2019: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone A quick novella about two women on opposite sides of a reality-spanning conflict, who use time-travel to counter one another’s moves (and counter-moves, and counter-counter-moves, and so on). Each field operative has more in common with her …
Book #154 of 2019: Recursion by Blake Crouch At the start of this inventive sci-fi thriller, a New York City cop investigates a case of people suddenly remembering alternate lives they’ve never lived, while a tech genius a decade earlier researches a way to digitally record and retrieve the failing memories of Alzheimer’s patients. Author …
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