Book Review: Time

August 31st, 2007

Time by Gregory Benford is a fairly entertaining piece of classic science fiction. The premise is that a set of super intelligent children born in one generation have the ability to understand time in a way no-one else does. This leads to a set of events some of which cause themselves.
The book is headlined by Reid Malenfant who is an american iconclast trying to get past the government red tape to mine the asteroids (shades of atlas strugged here but it’s not the point of the book). At the same time he’s being convinced by a rather strange character that the human race has only 200 years of existence left (based on the doomsday argument). He’s led by a signal from the future to change his destination and finds a time gate which shows an alternate fate for humanity. However since people seem to be able to reach in an amnipulate events before they occur, all bets are off.
It drifts a bit at points and ponders a little too much on some kind of anti-Nasa bias but overall a pretty good read.

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