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The Future of Another Timeline

By: Annalee Newitz
Narrated by: Laura Nichol
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'Do you remember when we had the vote?'

In a world that's just a step away from our own, time travel is possible. But war is brewing - a secret group is trying to destroy women's rights and their access to the timeline. If they succeed, only a small elite will have the power to shape the past, present, and future.

Our only hope lies with an unlikely group of allies, from riot grrls to revolutionaries, their lives separated by centuries, battling for a world where anyone can change the future. A final confrontation is coming.

The Future of Another Timeline is a thrilling science fiction tale from Annalee Newitz, the founding editor of io9, about the lengths we'll go to make history.

©2019 Annalee Newitz (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK Science Fiction Fiction

Critic Reviews

"A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard." (Wil Wheaton, actor Star Trek and Big Bang Theory)

"Clever, compelling and utterly original." (Laurie Penny)

"Smart and profound on every level, this is a deeply satisfying novel." (Publishers Weekly)
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Time travel stories are hard. This has an interesting spin but I felt it got bogged down trying to hammer home a point.

OK. Just ok.

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I stumbled on this book from a Wiki rabbit-hole about Lucy Parsons, an anarchist activist from the 1890s. I was almost put off reading it by some of the other reviews, but I'm so glad I didn't let them dissuade me.

This book is engaging, funny, dark, and intriguing.I loved learning interesting things from history (this book is so well researched!) and also loved the exploration of alternate timelines and what could have been. For me it got the balance right between personally meaningful storytelling and societally important themes. Sprinkle some time-travel in there and this book scratched an itch I didn't know I had.

If you're a feminist who likes sci-fi and/or history, you'll probably like this book!

(On reflection I have a feeling the negative reviews may be from people who don't like that this book centres women / who disagree with bodily autonomy? Just a hunch!)

A Wiki rabbit hole brought me here, and I couldn't be happier about it

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The initial ideas are really interesting, but the way they're developed is incredibly frustrating. On a micro scale, scene by scene, the book is great, but on a macro scale, looking at how scenes affect each other, it's a structural mess. Many of the ideas at play here are undernourished. The ambitions for the book far outstripped what it could ever reasonably accomplish.

Great ideas, but...

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