You probably know Ben Elton as the writer behind such amazing shows as Blackadder and The Young Ones . But he ’s alsothe source of a long ton of novels , many of which explore totally ludicrous skill fable premises with the sort of zany humor you ’d expect . ( The best are Gridlock and Stark . ) And now , he ’s just published a sentence - travel record !
https://gizmodo.com/beware-the-deadly-robotic-coffee-pot-5147583
The bad news is , Time and Time Again is likely usable only in the U.K. and Australia , which is probably why we have n’t heard much about it stateside . But you’re able to order it easily fromAmazon , although I do n’t see it on Powells or Barnes & Noble . And the premiss sounds pretty fun : It ’s 2024 , and a soldier of fortune named Hugh “ Guts ” Stanton is offer the chance to go back in time and prevent World War I , on the hypothesis that the Great War led to all the wretchedness of the past 100 years . But Stanton , who ’s basically name as a more awesome edition of James Bond , discover that change chronicle is n’t that aboveboard ( of course of study . )
The other regretful news : The Word of God has get mixed review article thus far , for its odd mixture of Eltonian humour and serious melodic theme . Although multitude seem to like its thriller - esque action , and some of the cool bits . For example , The Australiansays it ’s a mish - mash of style that does n’t quite work , and the characters are beyond one - dimensional , but then says you get drag up in the activity and it ’s too fun to put down after a while . The review adds :
Stanton ’s derring - do is divert fun but the book ’s existent persuasiveness happens to be both the calm - before - the - tempest historical detail and the check vision of a dystopian future ” where love is treason … and every person in the world is an emmet , a drone , a robot ” .
In among the egregious absurdities , the mind - bending talk of parallel universe of discourse and space - time vacuums , and Stanton ’s dramatic attempts to get back to the future , we get hold pertinent ethical questions that cover alternate - scenario ” what ifs ” and the ethics of verificatory damage .
It ’s sorry that Elton ’s books plain are n’t coming out in the States at all , and I can pretty much never have enough “ traveling back in sentence to change history ” stories . So this one might be worth ordering from across the pond .
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