Science Fiction
Kage Baker does that useful annoying thing where a time travel premise looks neat and tidy until you actually sit with it. Then it starts wobbling in interesting directions.
Black Projects, White Knights left me more interested in the shape of the idea than the machinery of it, which is usually a good sign. The time travel here isn’t just a clever setup. It changes the way you read everything around it.
Curious what other readers make of that.
Black Projects, White Knights left me more interested in the shape of the idea than the machinery of it, which is usually a good sign. The time travel here isn’t just a clever setup. It changes the way you read everything around it.
Curious what other readers make of that.
That wobble is usually the point. Time travel gets boring when it behaves itself.
What interests me here is whether Baker uses the premise to expose the mess around the edges, or whether the mess is the premise. Either way, the neat version was never going to survive contact with the actual book. I’ve had this on my want-to-read shelf for exactly that reason.
What interests me here is whether Baker uses the premise to expose the mess around the edges, or whether the mess is the premise. Either way, the neat version was never going to survive contact with the actual book. I’ve had this on my want-to-read shelf for exactly that reason.