Time ships

 Author: Stephen Baxter 

Genre: Sci-Fi

Original publication date: January1995

Book description: 

There is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live.

A century after the publication of H. G. Wells' immortal The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter, today's most acclaimed new "hard SF" author, and the acknowledged Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion, and a radical departure based on the astonishing new understandings of quantum physics.

Thoughts:

It starts off in an interesting manner. We follow our main character as he returns to his normal timeline and no time has been registered so he was not missed really. He tries to share his finding and what he saw with his contemporary scientific society. No one really believes or takes shim seriously except one man.  

He decides to take on his journey once more and bring proof of what he saw. Also, he wishes to prevent the untimely death of the Eloi woman who helped him. Big surprise when he notices that as he travels forward things began to change. The places he is in is the correct one but he no longer finds the Eloi colony nor the woman he left behind. He is perplexed and scared. This starts his journey.

The first few chapters are interesting as he comes to the new society and type of Morlocks and what the world has become. He is on a learning curve, but he still cannot let go of his preconceived ideas fully. He still is the same stubborn man he was before he began the trip. There is very little character growth in the whole story for him. He becomes less of a snob but overall, I did not find any of the characters loveable. 

The idea is interesting, he is changing time as he travels, each travel brings forth a different storyline. The decisions he takes do not help, as he continues to travel on several occasions. He is a very selfish man who never learns his lesson, we see him close the circle of the timeline mess he created but still by the time the ending comes, I was already exhausted. 

the idea was dragged too much. Also, the writing style is very dry and even if the idea was intriguing as I read I just wanted it to be over. 

Interesting time travel. We see him fight the butterfly effect and try to figure out what is going on and how to fix the mess and return to his original timeline. We see flawed characters and very little development, especially for the main character. The main focus is on the plot so we see the secondary characters pop up and leave, they're mainly only as fillers and help the plot move along. So they feel very simple and we never have them be very developed. The pacing is not to my liking either. We have some aspects just jumping from one thing to the next, action happening very fast and keeps you on the toes trying to find out what they will do or if they will destroy themselves and the world. Then again we spend too long in very boring details in some aspects, so we have a few fast-paced action-packed and some very boring mundane aspects. 

Overall it was a very slow read and not the first book I would recommend to sci-fi newbies. Best to look elsewhere if you are not already very invested and used to the Sci-fi genre. 

I age this a rating of 

Because it is not my cup of tea, it might work for fans of sci-fi and maybe if I read this later I might be more invested, but it's not very likely I'll reread this one EVER!

This one was one of the picks for my Buzzoradathon. This time (pun intended) it was a big miss. I am hoping to have better months for the book ideas of the oncoming months. 

Do let me know if you have any Sci-Fi recommendations, as I am trying to get more into the genre. Any ideas on where to go would be greatly appreciated.

See you guys later, stay safe and healthy!