3.5
A Window into Time (Novella)
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A profound, poignant, mind-blowing trip into time and consciousness awaits in this ebook original novella from New York Times bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton. In the vein of Life After Life, Hamilton’s bold speculations into the nature of life—and what comes after—make for riveting, provocative fiction.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Whip-smart thirteen-year-old Julian Costello Proctor—better known as Jules—has an eidetic memory. For as long as he can remember, he has remembered everything. “My mind is always on,” he explains. But when an unexpected death throws his life into turmoil, Jules begins to experience something strange. For the first time, there are holes in his memory.
But that’s not the strangest part. What’s really weird isn’t what he’s forgotten; it’s what he remembers. Memories of another life, not his own. And not from some distant past. No, these memories belong to a man who’s alive right now.
With bravery, ingenuity, and quirky good humor, Jules devises a theory to explain this baffling phenomenon. While tracking down the identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, he finds himself enmeshed in the hopes and dreams of a stranger . . . and caught in the coils of a madman’s deadly plot.
Praise for Peter F. Hamilton
“The owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction, author of immense, complex far-future sagas.”—Ken Follett
“The clear heir to Heinlein, in my view.”—Marc Andreessen, co-founder, Netscape
“Space Opera doesn’t get much more epic than Peter F. Hamilton.”—SFFWorld
“Hamilton tackles SF the way George R. R. Martin is tackling fantasy.”—SF Reviews
“Fusing elements of hard SF with adventure fantasy tropes, Hamilton has singlehandedly raised the bar for grand-scale speculative storytelling.”—Publishers Weekly
“The author’s mastery of the art of the ‘big story’ earns him a place among the leading authors of dynastic SF.”—Library Journal
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Whip-smart thirteen-year-old Julian Costello Proctor—better known as Jules—has an eidetic memory. For as long as he can remember, he has remembered everything. “My mind is always on,” he explains. But when an unexpected death throws his life into turmoil, Jules begins to experience something strange. For the first time, there are holes in his memory.
But that’s not the strangest part. What’s really weird isn’t what he’s forgotten; it’s what he remembers. Memories of another life, not his own. And not from some distant past. No, these memories belong to a man who’s alive right now.
With bravery, ingenuity, and quirky good humor, Jules devises a theory to explain this baffling phenomenon. While tracking down the identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, he finds himself enmeshed in the hopes and dreams of a stranger . . . and caught in the coils of a madman’s deadly plot.
Praise for Peter F. Hamilton
“The owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction, author of immense, complex far-future sagas.”—Ken Follett
“The clear heir to Heinlein, in my view.”—Marc Andreessen, co-founder, Netscape
“Space Opera doesn’t get much more epic than Peter F. Hamilton.”—SFFWorld
“Hamilton tackles SF the way George R. R. Martin is tackling fantasy.”—SF Reviews
“Fusing elements of hard SF with adventure fantasy tropes, Hamilton has singlehandedly raised the bar for grand-scale speculative storytelling.”—Publishers Weekly
“The author’s mastery of the art of the ‘big story’ earns him a place among the leading authors of dynastic SF.”—Library Journal
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“There's something about the blurb of this book that really grabbed me, and I had it on my wishlist for quite some time, before I got it on Kindle, to read during a (rare) quiet shift at work.
I was so close to giving up on this book, but I persevered, as it was only 106 pages long, but honestly, it's not worth it. It's based around the story of a boy, called Julian, told from his point of view, and he is definitely on the autistic spectrum. He has excellent memory recall (something that his grandfather also has, but this wasn't expanded in any detail, which I thought would have been quite an interesting concept) and has a traumatic event on his thirteenth birthday.
After that, the book goes quite strange. Julian starts having memories which are not his - some are from the past, and then go into the future. He conveniently finds out a lot of details about the person who's memories he has accessed, which leads to him searching for their Facebook pages and trying to prevent a significant event from happening.
But trying to stop this significant event from happening, there's no sense of urgency to the book, and for 106 pages, it really does drag. I couldn't get a grasp of Julian in my head, and I didn't feel that the storytelling was particularly good. This book is getting excellent reviews, which also was a major attraction for me, but I wouldn't recommend it. It goes into quite complicated territory, and I am not confident that in the end, I understood what had just happened. If the book had stood a chance to be fully fleshed out, to a standard length paperback, it might have stood a better chance. This has put me off reading any more by this author, and puzzled as to what everyone else read, that I clearly didn't get.”
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“Interesting new look at time travel from the point of view of a likely autistic prodigy.”
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About Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton is the author of numerous novels, including A Night Without Stars, The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Great North Road, The Evolutionary Void, The Temporal Void, The Dreaming Void, Judas Unchained, Pandora’s Star, Misspent Youth, Fallen Dragon, and the acclaimed epic Night’s Dawn trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God). He lives with his family in England.
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