It’s not a new thought, but he solves it in a way that I thought was quite interesting. This allows them to know not only how much time has passed since the event occurred, but also where in space the event took place. They handle this by tracing a specific type of radiation left from an event in the past. Even if you could travel back in time thirty years, you’d just find yourself floating in empty space, since the planet is continuously rotating and orbiting the sun. He brings up the point that time travel doesn’t just require a shift in time but also a shift through space. It’s so easy to end up with glaring holes that take you out of the story, but I really loved how Mastai handled it in this. Time travel is always a tricky thing to write. He has to adjust to this alternative life while hopefully finding a way to restore his timeline. While travelling back in time, a terrible mistake is made, and the traveller returns to 2016 to find his technological paradise replaced with the world we have now. In this alternate 2016, they have also just discovered a way to solve the puzzle of time travel. This is the debut novel from Vancouver writer Elan Mastai, a science-fiction story about a man who lives in a different 2016, one with all of the technological advances we grew up dreaming about – flying cars, medical advancements, food replicators, and, my personal favourite, the ability to wake up refreshed with no grogginess.
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