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The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

45 reviews

beccaand's review

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Rape, Abortion, Child abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Transphobia and Suicide

Minor: Vomit

rebecamojica's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

xeniaaaaaah's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This is the author’s rage book re the current political sphere affecting AFAB’s lives

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Murder

franmor6907's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

hwaldooo's review

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

the premise of this book ticked a ton of boxes for me, but i could NOT get into it at all. no investment in the plot, no affection for the characters, some interest in the central ideas (time/history, collective action) but underwhelmed with how they were handled. bummer!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, and Murder

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

amalyndb's review against another edition

5.0

Wow. This is powerful. 

Basic premise is an alternate history, where reproductive rights are threatened from the far future via time travel. There's a whole lot more than that.

There is some potentially triggering subject matter. That may be an understatement.

Heed the warnings: I had a visceral reaction to some of this. I've read other stuff written in more explicit ways that didn't impact me as much. An observation, rather than a complaint. Will reread again in future when I feel able to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Abortion, Murder, and Misogyny

Moderate: Mental illness and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

Brief within text overall, but there is

sexual molestation experienced as a minor recounted to another character, a young teacher who was preying on teenage girls, and the same teacher had created sexually exploitive images of teenage girls

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elle_g's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The plot of this book was interesting, but executed poorly. There were too many ideas that weren't properly fleshed out so they fell flat. A lot of the characters lacked any nuance (I.e. the Scooby-Doo like villains) and some felt like they were only there to be token diversity characters since they didnt end up contributing to the plot at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child abuse

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Suicide

pandact's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

From the start, I imagined each chapter as a music video, specifically K. Flay's videos around "Sister" where they escape from men and travel back in time. It makes a lot more sense after all the punk bands in the acknowledgements, and the Grape Ape music video they mentioned in the post-audiobook interview! Honestly, the acknowledgements and historical notes were pretty good about avoiding spoilers, and it would've been cool to know that they were composing the Arabian riff!

It's like a music video with cameos for historical nerds, and plenty of suggestive dancing and smoking that would piss off Comstock... Newitz juggles a lot of twisty timelines at the expense of character development, imo. Nonetheless, it's a powerful work that evokes feminist punk and might teach you something just like Robot and Crow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Drug use, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Cultural appropriation

Some nitpicks... Reverting the erased character so early kind of "nuked the fridge" for me and it wasn't suspenseful unless there was a threat to prevent time travel, but the edit war never really had any big moments where someone was "burned out" or had a permanent loss. There wasn't a lot of tension in the middle, and I kept getting distracted by inconsistent, handwavy causality. It's not as much science of time travel as historical drama... The narrator had a perfect speed (at 1.5) and good acting, but did not match the songs. I really wanted Lucy Parsons or some feminist to come back and undermine the Great Man diverting the timeline thing, but I get that even Sanger and Helen Keller also liked gilded age eugenics... All that said, I'm so glad I finished it because the ending stuck the landing in a fun way!

patlo's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Fun and progressive, if heavy handed, alternate history based on time travel edits. The audiobook is voiced by a wonderful young actor with a good punk energy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Rape

kelseymn18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

A Handmaid's Tale meets time travel. A group of feminist time travelers study and visit social movements from throughout history, until they end up in an "edit war" against men who are going back in time and editing history in order to prevent women's rights and LGBTQ+ rights from progressing. I loved the fresh concept, and the time travel aspect was done well. The two main POVs and their timelines were also integrated really well.  The story definitely hits differently now in a post-Roe world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Transphobia