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In this sequel to YA and fantasy author Spotson’s science fiction debut (“Life II”), the eldest son born in the “wrong” time stream to time traveler Max Thorning must set things right and restore the universe to its rightful order.Burdened with an excessively high IQ and severe ADHD, along with frequent night terrors and a nagging sense he doesn’t belong “here,” Kyle Thorning nonetheless overcomes his father’s depression, his parents’ divorce and his personal limitations to become a world-famous PhD in physics and land a position at CERN, the famous particle physics lab in Switzerland. He even scores a hot physicist girlfriend and seems poised for success and happiness. But events beyond his control have been growing alongside his stellar career, namely the stealthy global takeover of the entire planet by four-legged, four-armed, multi-colored aliens called the “Darsians.” One things leads to another, and eventually Kyle realizes the magnitude of the destruction his father Max Thorning caused by going back in time and creating a second time stream, one overrun by Darsians slowly tightening their grip on his planet by addicting humanity to super strong cidda coffee and enthralling them with integram virtual lives. Can Kyle save humanity--and his father’s life--by finding the means to go back in time and set things right before it’s too late?
Buckle up for a campy ride. Spotson’s writing is fast-paced and clear, well-formatted and cleanly copy-edited. The story starts a bit slow, giving needed space to catching up readers who may have missed the first book, but shifts into a trot by mid-book and gallops to an exciting finish by the end. Spotson “helicopter parents” his verbs with generous doses of adverbs for extra oomph, quite never trusting them to carry the weight of the action unaccompanied. Characters, male and female, spend a good deal of time with tears rolling down their faces, drawn in cartoon-y over-the-top ways, melodramatically nervous, terrified, enraged, grieving or otherwise discombobulated much of the time. I wondered if I had wandered into a middle-grade story, with all the exaggerated emotion and adverbs, but the occasional bouts of romance (committed relationship, discreet, “off screen”), the moments of parental worry about the impact of divorce on children and the physics duel at CERN tugged me back up into a YA-to-adult targeting. To be clear, his writing style drove me nuts, but I found myself unable to put the story down. I had to find out whether Kyle succeeded or failed, and how it all went down. And if that isn’t the definition of "engaging," dear reader, I do not know what is.
On what to rate this time travel tale, I am honestly flummoxed. I have to assume the adverb-and-hysterical characters thing is a consciously chosen style, since the world-building is intelligent, the story-telling robust, the copy-editing excellent, and the occasional bursts of physics quite fun. You have to give the man extra points for coming up with not one but two separate ways to travel through time, after all, while working neutralinos, anti-Higgs bosons, Casimir effects and slit experiments gone rogue into the story. I happen to have a minor in physics, and his physics are nonsensical hand waving, but exuberantly delivered with Trumpian compelling effect. The aliens, while central to the plot and eventually revealed in all their glorious villainy, seem almost an afterthought in this family-centric tale of a son’s quest to save his father and the universe. Five seems too high for a book with this many adverbs, histrionic characters and weeping spells; three stars too low for something this well copy-edited and exuberantly over-the-top campy fun. I can see the B-movie version, shot for a skinny budget, of this noble tale of courage and sacrifice in the war against the aliens. Four stars, recommended for precocious children with ADHD who like physics and time travel stories and for adults looking to discover the next campy cult favorite.
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Bridge Through Time Scott Spotson 9781500923587 Books Reviews
Novel approach to a science fiction story.
Let's start with the bad
Bridge Through Time is a sequel to a book that I have not read. So it took a bit of time to get up to speed with the past action and what was going on, but I was able to understand enough and then had even more explained in the story to keep me hooked.
The good
Bridge Through Time is filled with a lot of thought, from taking Terry Pratchett's "pants of time" to a more scientific case, and not needing to use to much "Handwavium" to make it work. There is a good deal of philosophy, a serious dig at over consolidation potential in capitalism, and characters that have believable motivations.
All in all a good read.
Bridge Through Time - 4.5 stars
In Bridge Through Time, Scott Spotson manages to meld intense science fiction – aliens, time travel, and parallel universes – with poignant examinations of human relationships. The book starts out as an alien invasion story, but takes an abrupt turn into a trip down memory lane when Max Thorning revisits Dr. Time. Dr. Time controls the Dream Weaver, a device that permits time travel as well as providing glimpses into the past – including Max’s past prior to entering this alternate timeline (which he calls Life II). Thorning wants to see where he went wrong with his current children, and discovers that perhaps his initial time travels triggered the arrival of aliens in Life II.
All of this, though, is the flash. The substance of the story emerges as we follow Kyle Thorning, Max’s Life II son, a physicist working at CERN. Kyle works against the now thoroughly-entrenched aliens (Darsians), who continue to control more and more of Earth’s economy with their technological “gifts to mankind.” Kyle wants to create time travel without the Darsians knowing, and must play a tough political game to keep his secrets hidden.
While Kyle’s professional pressures are huge, I found his personal struggles far more interesting Kyle battles with depression, and tries every day to cope with his ADHD. He has a complicated relationship with his father, his girlfriend, and his peers. His motivations, while seemingly scientific and objective, are deeply personal – he pursues world-altering goals largely because he feels like he doesn’t belong in this world.
I must say that, while the family focus is ultimately what won me over, it came about in a disorienting way. The story seemed very much focused on the danger of an alien invasion, only to have Max decide to rehash family drama out of nowhere. With the trajectory of the story aiming toward Kyle anyway, having a scene or two of father-son discord before the visit to Dr. Time would have made that course change less jarring. The later re-directs were quite fun once I got into the author's flow.
Bridge Through Time is a book full of surprising twists and turns, with enough emotional and intellectual depth to keep it all from flying past. If you want sci fi that doesn’t skimp on the science, but provides real human moments as well, you’ll want to check this one out.
In this sequel to YA and fantasy author Spotson’s science fiction debut (“Life II”), the eldest son born in the “wrong” time stream to time traveler Max Thorning must set things right and restore the universe to its rightful order.
Burdened with an excessively high IQ and severe ADHD, along with frequent night terrors and a nagging sense he doesn’t belong “here,” Kyle Thorning nonetheless overcomes his father’s depression, his parents’ divorce and his personal limitations to become a world-famous PhD in physics and land a position at CERN, the famous particle physics lab in Switzerland. He even scores a hot physicist girlfriend and seems poised for success and happiness. But events beyond his control have been growing alongside his stellar career, namely the stealthy global takeover of the entire planet by four-legged, four-armed, multi-colored aliens called the “Darsians.” One things leads to another, and eventually Kyle realizes the magnitude of the destruction his father Max Thorning caused by going back in time and creating a second time stream, one overrun by Darsians slowly tightening their grip on his planet by addicting humanity to super strong cidda coffee and enthralling them with integram virtual lives. Can Kyle save humanity--and his father’s life--by finding the means to go back in time and set things right before it’s too late?
Buckle up for a campy ride. Spotson’s writing is fast-paced and clear, well-formatted and cleanly copy-edited. The story starts a bit slow, giving needed space to catching up readers who may have missed the first book, but shifts into a trot by mid-book and gallops to an exciting finish by the end. Spotson “helicopter parents” his verbs with generous doses of adverbs for extra oomph, quite never trusting them to carry the weight of the action unaccompanied. Characters, male and female, spend a good deal of time with tears rolling down their faces, drawn in cartoon-y over-the-top ways, melodramatically nervous, terrified, enraged, grieving or otherwise discombobulated much of the time. I wondered if I had wandered into a middle-grade story, with all the exaggerated emotion and adverbs, but the occasional bouts of romance (committed relationship, discreet, “off screen”), the moments of parental worry about the impact of divorce on children and the physics duel at CERN tugged me back up into a YA-to-adult targeting. To be clear, his writing style drove me nuts, but I found myself unable to put the story down. I had to find out whether Kyle succeeded or failed, and how it all went down. And if that isn’t the definition of "engaging," dear reader, I do not know what is.
On what to rate this time travel tale, I am honestly flummoxed. I have to assume the adverb-and-hysterical characters thing is a consciously chosen style, since the world-building is intelligent, the story-telling robust, the copy-editing excellent, and the occasional bursts of physics quite fun. You have to give the man extra points for coming up with not one but two separate ways to travel through time, after all, while working neutralinos, anti-Higgs bosons, Casimir effects and slit experiments gone rogue into the story. I happen to have a minor in physics, and his physics are nonsensical hand waving, but exuberantly delivered with Trumpian compelling effect. The aliens, while central to the plot and eventually revealed in all their glorious villainy, seem almost an afterthought in this family-centric tale of a son’s quest to save his father and the universe. Five seems too high for a book with this many adverbs, histrionic characters and weeping spells; three stars too low for something this well copy-edited and exuberantly over-the-top campy fun. I can see the B-movie version, shot for a skinny budget, of this noble tale of courage and sacrifice in the war against the aliens. Four stars, recommended for precocious children with ADHD who like physics and time travel stories and for adults looking to discover the next campy cult favorite.
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