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Time Was por Ian Mcdonald
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Time Was (2018 original; edición 2018)

por Ian Mcdonald (Autor)

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A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found. Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their desperate timelines overlap.… (más)
Miembro:richardderus
Título:Time Was
Autores:Ian Mcdonald (Autor)
Información:Tor.com (2018), 144 pages
Colecciones:Reviewed, Kindles
Valoración:****
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Time Was por Ian McDonald (2018)

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A book dealer finds a love letter from WWII in a discarded book. Trying to track down the sender and the recipient he stumbles across a mystery: they seem to be appearing in photos over a period of 120-odd years but hardly aging.

Beautifully lyrical novella. ( )
  Robertgreaves | Feb 22, 2023 |
I pre-ordered this just on the pitch of "queer time-traveling romance story." And for the first half of the book it looked like it was going to deliver. McDonald's prose is so lush and absolutely gorgeous. The kind of beautiful writing that makes you want to slow down and underline every other sentence.

Unfortunately, the ending fell down hard for me. I was really, really disappointed that what was pitched as a queer romance ended up in a tragic 'bury your gays' type ending, not even allowing the death and impact to play out on the page, and the emotional investment we had in the queer characters became all about the straight character I'd seen as more of a framing device. Couple with the wild character assassination of the one female character that seemed a little out of left field, I just...wish the plot had lived up to the beautiful prose. ( )
  ajhackwith | Jan 3, 2023 |
The Publisher Says: A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it.

In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found.

Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their disparate timelines overlap.

I RECEIVED A GIFT OF THIS TITLE.

My Review
: I liked this story quite a lot. More anon.

***ANON***

Listen to the dissatisfied bleats from MM-romance readers! This is NOT that book!

It is a fun time-travel tale, and the MM couple whose life together is really more of a life-apart treasure hunt for each other after being unhitched from Time's Arrow during a WWII experiment in quantum superposition is the animating spirit. The young straight bookhunter whose obsession with the gay couple leads him into very strange territory is much more present on the page than either man in the couple. That's disappointing on some levels because of what is promised in the marketing push. But adjust your expectations and read the story that's there and the experience is just fine.

Accepting the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is easier for most fictionphiles than is Copenhagen interpretation of it, which requires us to believe in the arrow of time or the eternal and immutable journey of all things from the past to the future. There are some cracks in the immutability of time's forward progress at the quantum level (you can look it up on your own this time) but no one is saying, at this moment in time, that gross assmblages of atoms like human bodies are about to be transportable whole, entire, and functioning in any direction at any speed of more than 60 seconds per minute.

So there's the fiction bit of the tale defined.

The tale itself...lovers separated and striving to get back together despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles...is an evergreen because most of us have experienced it to some degree or another. The separated lovers in the story are both men and that, as I suspect does not need heavy emphasis, would've kept them apart in the world of 1940s England and not to mention the world of the military which both were in.

The tale of an obsessive quest for an elusive object is equally familiar. A man so utterly absorbed in his own world as to not notice the fact that his lover is being openly unfaithful to him is a familiar character, again as most of us have encountered this in real life relationships whether our own or those of the people close to us. (Well, I know *I* have, so everyone I know has as well.)

Weaving the two together in the way McDonald does is involving and interesting. This isn't something I'm surprised about, though, as I've read his excellent novel [book:River of Gods|278280] set in a 2047 India that has quantum computing. He's been thinking about these matters for a long time and that makes his world-building dense and fulfilling to read.

Take the journey with him in this short work. If you like it, and I hope you will, move to the massive, excellent River of Gods and immerse yourself in just how weird the world is, and will be; this book will give you the "was." ( )
  richardderus | Aug 13, 2022 |
Time to manage our expectations here.

I'm a fan of Ian's work and I'm generally amazed by the amount of research he puts into his novels, twisting strange stories into very creative manifestos, and there's a bit of that coming through the pages here, too, but it begs the question:

What is this?

It is a love story only if you see it through the lens of a mystery fan first, a time-paradox sleuth second, and if you like a REALLY slow burn through a deep focus on poetry and old personal notebooks from the PoV of a bibliophile in hunt of the central mystery.

It's not bad and the questions raised do drag us to the inevitable end, but this is a very niche piece.

History buffs, bibliophiles, and SF mystery fans who don't mind a slow burn that leads to a somewhat odd end in this thankfully short work will probably get a lot out of this.

But for me? It was fine. Okay. But not my favorite of his by a long shot.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC! ( )
  bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |
Ce roman court de Ian McDonald part d'une très bonne idée sur le voyage dans le temps. On suit la vie d'Emmet Leigh, passionné de livres, une passion qui va l'amener à découvrir des lettres glissées dans plusieurs exemplaires d'un même ouvrage. Ces lettres, il le comprend petit à petit, ont été laissées par deux voyageurs temporels qui s'en servent de moyen de communication. La dernière partie de l'ouvrage, ainsi que sa fin assez inattendue, sont plus faibles et pas au niveau du du reste du roman, ce qui gache un peu le plaisir. Dommage. ( )
  Patangel | Mar 11, 2020 |
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A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found. Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their desperate timelines overlap.

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