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Tomorrow's Spacemage, Timothy Ellis 14 August 2024

2020 SF, last of its trilogy. This time Thorn is mucking about with time.

Well, there's a little more uncertainty about what to do next than in book 2, but the only difficulties are in working out what to do, not in actually doing it. Most of the characters this time don't even have names, because this story is all about Thorn and not really about anyone else. (As if the first-person narration weren't a giveaway.)

Also we get Baby's First Gun Control Lecture and even as someone broadly not in favour of private firearm ownership I found it not only naïve and preachy but very clearly rooted in the author's own time rather than in the context of the science-fictional setting. (Ah well, at least this will annoy the sort of reader who would otherwise be ready to praise any power-fantasy.)

There's also lots of time travel, which is suddenly easier than it was last time, and nobody seems particularly worried about paradoxes. Hey ho.

Even if you enjoyed wasting your time with book 1, as I did, don't bother with 2 or 3. Still, it did clear my palate after a certain Hugo-nominated novel; I finished this, and I didn't finish that.

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