Category: Time Travel
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Waiting On Wednesday – The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating. This Weeks Choice: THE FUTURE OF US by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. Expected Publication Date: November 21, 2011 (US) January 5, 2012 (UK) Blurb taken from Goodreads: It’s…
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Time Travel Reading Challenge 2011
I’m a huge Time Travel fan when it comes to books. LOVE them. One of my all time favourites is Cross Stitch (AKA Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon. I first read it 20 years ago and have read countless books since but it still holds the number one spot on my ‘Best ever Book’ list. I…
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Review – Flashforward byRobert Sawyer
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Gollancz Publication date: 09 Oct 2009 ISBN: 978-0575091016 First Line – “Day One: Tuesday, April 21, 2009” Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of…
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Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon–when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach–an “outlander”–in a Scotland torn by war and raiding…
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The Dechronization of Sam Magruder – George Gaylord Simpson
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder is one of the stranger works of fiction that has appeared in recent years. Its author, George Gaylord Simpson, was widely regarded as the greatest paleontologist of the twentieth century. He died in 1984, but the manuscript of this intriguing novella about a twenty-second-century scientist was not found by his…