One Day All This Will Be Yours

192 pages

English language

Published 2021 by Black Library, The.

ISBN:
978-1-78108-874-6
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4 stars (22 reviews)

Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day.

Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that’s sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time.

I was the one who ended it. Ended the fighting, tidied up the damage as much as I could.

Then I came here, to the end of it all, and gave myself a mission: to never let it happen again.

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one of those books that feels like watching a movie

4 stars

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.

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5 stars

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.

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