Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Map of Time, Felix de Palma

The Map of Time

I wanted very much to like this book, but I found it a bit of a slog. There are three distinct, but related, stories to this tale of time travel. The first I enjoyed, the second, I did not, and the third never grabbed my attention. I was relieved when the book actually ended earlier than I expected. ( HG Wells' The Time Machine was appended onto the end so the actual story ended 300 or so e-pages before the page count of the book.)

Devoted time travel readers might enjoy this, and it does a nice job with the complications inherent in time travel - but really no better than an episode of Dr. Who.