false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178273219m/778990.jpg 778990 12 Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It's 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story's perspective toggles between time lines, physicists, and their communities. <I>Timescape</I> presents the subculture and world of scientists in microcosm: the lab, the loves, the grappling for grants, the pressures from university and government, the rewards and trials of relationships with spouses, the pressures of the scientific race, and the thrill of discovery. <p> <I>Timescape</I> merits the tag "hard science fiction"; it tells the story of scientists, and readers can't help but learn something about tachyons and physics while reading it. Yet much of the story is about humanity: the men John Renfrew and Gordon Bernstein and their relationships--between husband and wife, lover and lover, English working class and upper class, professor and student, and academician and colleagues. <p> Winner of the Nebula Award in 1980 and the John W. Clark Award in 1981, <I>Timescape</I> offers readers a great yarn, in terms of both humanity and science. 2611291 book 1980 Timescape total:312|5:50|4:105|3:114|2:31|1:12| 312 1086 464 27 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 04:33:16 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 04:55:49 -0700 2009 The book revolves around scientists in the future (1998, when the book was written anyway) trying to send a message to the past in 1962 about the dangers and disasters caused by indiscrimina...more...]]> 1 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Nov 06 11:12:51 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 11:15:45 -0800 2008 1 This is the first and only time I ever threw a book in the garbage after reading it. I just couldn't inflict anyone I know with ...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 20 18:08:22 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 18:15:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Thu Jul 03 04:58:01 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 05:18:38 -0700 2008
Dans le domaine assez pointu des voyages dans le temps, on est assez souvent confronté au Paradoxe. Non seulement ce roman nous l’épargne, mais en plus, il nou...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 08:59:48 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 09:14:01 -0700 2007 This book received a Nebula award, I think ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 23 14:49:24 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 14:58:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 21:43:12 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 21:45:22 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 10:08:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 10:11:14 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Mon Dec 15 16:27:25 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 16:32:24 -0800 2008
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Well-written, character-focused hard SF. Very compelling and smart. Detailed and realistic. Up until the last chapter transcends genre and then suddenly has to explain all th...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 30 01:14:55 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 01:14:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 21:22:53 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 21:22:53 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Sat Jul 18 16:30:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:30:12 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 19:18:31 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 19:18:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 19:58:57 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 08:21:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 08:07:47 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 08:07:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 22:07:39 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 00:48:22 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Thu Aug 09 19:13:33 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 19:17:16 -0700 2007
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