Posts Tagged ‘time travel’

16
Oct

Doomsday Book

   Posted by: Fence   in Books

Author: Connie Willis
ISBN: 0450579875 DDC: 813.54
See also: LibraryThing ; SF Reviews ;
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Mr. Dunworthy opened the door to the laboratory and his spectacles promptly steamed up.
“Am I too late?” he said, yanking them off and squinting at Mary.

Image of Doomsday BookIn the year 2525, there are women… sorry, about that interruption from Cleopatra 2525, it was really out of place, considering that this book isn’t even set in 2525, but in the year 2054, when historians could travel back in time to really study their subjects. Kivrin is one such historian. But she doesn’t want to travel to the C20th, where most historians are sent, she wants to be the first to travel back to the Medieval period. And she succeeds in her aim, but something isn’t quite right. No one can ever be entirely certain as to where or when a historian will end up. A certain amount of slippage always occurs. But in Kivrin’s case her tech falls ill and so her fate is even more uncertain.

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Tags: 8 Stars, 813.54, Black Death, Britain - middle ages, C14th, Connie Willis, Doomsday Book, Eclectic Circus, England, future, group read, historical fiction, plauge, sff, time travel

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1
Aug

Time and Again

   Posted by: Fence   in Books

Author: Jack Finney
ISBN: none DDC:813.54
See also: LibraryThing | Andy’s Anachronisms | Books you never read | Thoughts on writing and other afflictions | Book reviews by Emma | MADreads

In shirt-sleeves, the way I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board.

Image of Time and AgainSimon Morley is leading an average enough life, working for an advertising company, when a man comes calling. This man, Rube Prien, offers him a new job, working for the government, but he must keep it a secret, and until he agrees he won’t know what it is he is signing up to. At first he thinks he’ll refuse but slowly his curiosity gets the better of him. And he discovers that the secret is time-travel.

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Tags: 813.54, 9 Stars, C19th, engaging read, historical fiction, Jack Finney, mystery, New York, romance, sff, Time and Again, time travel, USA - Reconstruction & Industrialisation

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10
Jul

The Lake House

   Posted by: Fence   in Moving Pictures

Dir: Alejandro Agresti
Writ: David Auburn
Jiro Asada(original Novella Siworae); Eun-Jeong Kim & Ji-na Yeo (writers of original film Siworae aka ]Il Mare)

  • Keanu Reeves - Alex Wyler
  • Sandra Bullock - Kate Forster
  • Shohreh Aghdashloo - Anna Klyczynski
  • Christopher Plummer - Simon Wyler
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach - Henry Wyler
  • Willeke van Ammelrooy - Kate’s Mother

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usI didn’t think I’d enjoy this film. When I first heard about it I didn’t think I’d bother to go see, but then I read some reviews that persuaded me to check it out. I still didn’t think I’d enjoy it mind, but I thought I’d give it a go.

The basic plot revolves around a house, yes by a lake, hence The Lake House, and its mailbox. Which seems to be somesort of a time-portal type thing, allowing Kate and Alex to exchange letters. From a distance of two years. Kate is in 2006, Alex in 2004.

Despite my reservations there is actually quite a bit to like about this film. Reeves and Bullock have good chemistry, and the script has a lot of nice touches in the dialogue. However I didn’t like the way the letters the two characters were translated into total conversations, with one replying to a sentence and then the other responding as though they were able to talk in real time. It wasn’t a mysterious Instant Messaging time device they used. It was letters. But I was willing to over look that.

What I’m not willing to over look Show Spoilers ▼

So in the end I came out feeling annoyed. I’m glad I went, and overall it was a watchable film. But I didn’t like it.

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Tags: 6 Stars, Alejandro Agresti, based on book, Causality!, Christopher Plummer, David Auburn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Keanu Reeves, romance, Sandra Bullock, sff, Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Lake House, time travel, Willeke van Ammelrooy

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27
Feb

Life on Mars - season 1

   Posted by: Fence   in Moving Pictures, TV

  • John Simm - Sam
  • Philip Glenister - Gene
  • Liz White - Annie
  • Dean Andrews - Ray Carling
  • Marshall Lancaster - Chris Skelton

Image Hosted by ImageShack.usI’m not really sure why I started watching this show. The trailers made it look very poor. Some crap cop police show, only with time travel thrown in. I was half thinking it’d be The Bill meets Time Cop. Yet for some reason I tuned in. Probably because there was nothing else on on a Monday night.

And I am so glad I did. This has to be my favourite British show, in a long time, maybe ever. Though Cracker was fantastic in its day.

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Tags: 1970s, 8 Stars, comedy, cops, crime, Dean Andrews, excellent, Gene Hunt, John Simm, Life On Mars, Life On Mars - season 1, Liz White, Marshall Lancaster, Philip Glenister, sff, time travel

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27
May

Time Traveller’s Wife

   Posted by: Fence   in Books

Author: Audrey Niffenegger
DDS: 813.6

I read this books for Fantasy Favorites, but I’m a bit late so haven’t read any of the discussion there yet.

I’ve listed this under chick-lit as it is basically a romance story, with a little bit of sci-fi (in the form of time travel) thrown in. The plot revolves around Clare and Henry, who meet when Clare was 6 and Henry 36. But marry when Clare was 22 and Henry 30.

However the time-travel is really just a plot device, the real story is the romance between the two characters. And I’ll admit that at the start I didn’t really like the idea of this older Henry being so close with the child Clare. I felt it was a little close to “grooming.”
But that feeling was only ever very slight, and for the most part this was a well-written, enjoyable romance.

Tags: 8 Stars, 813.6, Audrey Niffenegger, chick-lit, Fantasy Favorites, group read, romance, sff, time travel, Time Traveller's Wife

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