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Synchronic: 13 Tales Of Time Travel (2000)

by David Gatewood(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: This is a very well curated collection of short stories. Usually the quality of such collections has its ups and downs, but here, the quality is consistently very high*. Moreover, no two stories are very similar. "Time travel" can be interpreted liberally... there's stories with literal time machines, stories that incorporate mythology or urban legend, or where 'time travel' is simply a type of cryogenic sleep, and so forth.All in all, I enjoyed each story. They all have their own flavors...Some are more emotional, some more mystery, some simply adventurous exploration. Unless you dislike the genre as a whole, I recommend this collection.*I did have some problems with the first story... interesting concept but not as well executed.
review 2: I don't normally re... moread short stories, but this is another instance when I'm glad I did. Though it did remind me why I don't normally, the stories I really liked, all I want to know is what happened before/after the events in the short story. Favorite stories: Corrections (Susan Kaye Quinn), a person time travels through murder's minds on death row to try to prevent the crime thus keeping both the victim and murderer alive. The idea that the murderer, who when the psychologist travels back has to get a 17 digit tattoo to indicate in the present that he had murder potential is a great one. Definitely would love to read more set in this universe. The Dark Age (Jason Gurley) was my other top favorite. The main character leaves his wife and daughter the day she is born to go on a one way space mission, then after a while with spotty communications between the craft and earth the crew enters cryosleep for 144 years. Then wake up to deal with the consequences. So i really want to know, what exactly were they supposed to monitor? Why a 144 year sleep? Does the crew expect to eventually run out of food and die? Turn the ship around and sleep again and go back to earth? So many questions!!!! less

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