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Is it a time travel book? Mystery? Thriller? Love story? All of the above and more. The premise: a not-too-distant future in which sample individuals from across history have been “rescued” by the British Crown and brought to modern-day London as “ex-pats” in order to assess the safety and feasibility of time travel.
Beyond the usual brain-twisting loops of overlapping timelines, grandfather paradoxes, and butterfly effects, this novel wrestles with the gamut of sociological constructs and conflicts: institutional racism, technology dependency, immigration struggles, gender roles, civil rights, equality of the sexes, political correctness, nationalism, colonialism—the list goes on. What would a person born hundreds of years ago think of the modern era? What would we think of them? What modern social mores would they embrace or balk at?
The writing is crisp, evocative and thought provoking, The baked-in British humor is devastatingly deadpan. A triumph of a debut…
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
"An intelligent, defiant novel, akin to any of Annalee Newitz's writings while also brushing shoulders with some of the great questions of identity and consciousness brought up in the works of William Gibson." -San Francisco Chronicle
A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel-only for it to fall in love with the novel's subject, Sen, the last human on Earth.
Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is simple: remove humans from the ecosystem.
