A review by nwhyte
1610: A Sundial in a Grave by Mary Gentle

http://nhw.livejournal.com/32752.html[return][return]1610 is a good book, all right, a fascinating and somewhat kinky look at the year of the title and the possibilities of changing history. But of course any fictional scenario involving deterministic prediction of the future has to actually find a way of averting said deterministic prediction to make the plot interesting; I have never seen that done convincingly and this is no exception. I felt I recognised too many elements from both Ash and the only other Mary Gentle book I've read, The Architecture of Desire (also set in a seventeenth century that never was - cf Pepys) without really much new being added. And basically it is too long.