One Day All This Will Be Yours

I borrowed this book from the library because it was short and has a picture of a dinosaur on the cover. It is, in fact, short, and has multiple dinosaurs in it.

I certainly have some problems with it, like its Eurocentric view of history or its tiresome equivocation of Stalin and Hitler; but its subject matter is treated so lightly that I can't be particularly upset. It is, at the end of the day, a relatively harmless & mostly enjoyable comedy overlaid on an interesting time travel premise.

Get off my lawn, and my lawn is the end of all time, says grandpa. A salty counterpoint to "This Is How You Lose the Time War".

Our nameless, faceless protagonist in this light-hearted post-epochalyptic tale has charged himself with protecting the future, so to speak. The past has been completely decimated in an endless series of time and causality wars. He will not only kill but erase anyone who threatens the future.

I went straight into this from Becky Chambers' Closed and Common Orbit and – talk about culture shock – the two could not have been more different. And I mean that in the best possible way (on both sides).

Chambers doesn't so much write novels as she does character studies in story format. This, on the other hand, isn't so much a novella as it is a philosophy/game theory/sociology textbook in story format.

If you enjoy stories that make you think, that leave you lying awake asking yourself how time works, this one's for you.

What an awesome book this was.
Really enjoyed reading it.
It shows the fucked-upness of time travel in a really tranquil way.

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"The man’s name is Weldon. The woman’s is Smantha. “Samantha?” I clarify, but no, apparently it’s ‘Smantha.’ I’ve been invaded by chrononautic hipsters."