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3.0
Every once in a while an author is entitled to write one just for fun. I'm going to assume that's what this is. After finishing this today, I went to log it in my file and discovered that I've read it before. That tells you how memorable it isn't.
It starts out well. All about - wait while I get some coffee - the author's louche pal Travis and his adventures. Mysterious goings-on, a long drive, coffee, investigation, coffee, a long drive, more coffee, and eventually a ridiculously implausible device, more or less an Anything Box with telepathy and time travel.
But, as an SF author must, Barnes develops the plot from the device seriously, with coffee and long drives but no more leaps of implausibility. By the time he ties all the threads together, it's insanely complicated.
Despite all the converging plots, the book dragged badly after halfway. Girlfriends, a bad bar band, and far too long more or less abandoning the plot.
Don't make this the only book you take on a trip. But as the other book, it's fine.
It starts out well. All about - wait while I get some coffee - the author's louche pal Travis and his adventures. Mysterious goings-on, a long drive, coffee, investigation, coffee, a long drive, more coffee, and eventually a ridiculously implausible device, more or less an Anything Box with telepathy and time travel.
But, as an SF author must, Barnes develops the plot from the device seriously, with coffee and long drives but no more leaps of implausibility. By the time he ties all the threads together, it's insanely complicated.
Despite all the converging plots, the book dragged badly after halfway. Girlfriends, a bad bar band, and far too long more or less abandoning the plot.
Don't make this the only book you take on a trip. But as the other book, it's fine.
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