The Future of Another Timeline

The Future of Another Timeline

2019 • 252 pages

Ratings48

Average rating3.6

15

It's possible I might have liked this book a little more had I read it like not within the last six months as it became clear we are living in the darkest timeline the time travelers in this book are trying to fix. It's also possible I wouldn't have. In general, time travel is not my jam, and this one just triggered all of my paradox, suspension of disbelief, plot convenience triggered. I like Annalee Neuwitz a lot as a nonfiction writer, and I was pretty into Autonomous, but the writing for this one was just not strong enough for me to get into it. I should like a super diverse, punk rock, sci-fi story that draws from actual little known pieces of history, but at the end of the day, it felt like a hodge podge of cool bits of history thrown together with some pretty one dimensional characters with time travel that was explained just enough to make me question everything about it.

Also, those time travelers did NOT do a good job of fixing the timeline if this is where we are today.

October 24, 2022