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In the year 1996, David Singh, a time traveller from the future, coaxes a group of experts to the desolate farmstead of Blackwell's Rest in remote Australia. He achieves this by showing each recruit an object which convinces them beyond doubt to follow him.
Their mission is to construct a…
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Time travel is hard to get right. It bristles with paradoxes, whichever way you travel, to the past or the future, and they’re the great fun in reading time travel stories. But if you ignore them or present them illogically or frivolously, it can ruin the story, at least for me.
Cosmain provides an ingenious treatment of these paradoxes in a 500-page novel I couldn’t put down, and along the way, provides a breathtaking ride, replete with philosophic conundrum, inspiring and heartbreaking characters, and a scientific rigor right down to the DNA. Easily the best novel I’ve read not only…
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