Mass Market Paperback, 520 pages
English language
Published Nov. 27, 1995
The Time Ships is a 1995 hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. A canonical sequel to the 1895 novella The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, it was officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original's publication. The Time Ships won critical acclaim. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Philip K. Dick Award in 1996, as well as the British Science Fiction Association Award in 1995. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Clarke and Locus Awards in 1996.
I recognize the quality of this book, but I just didn't enjoy it. I think it's a worthy sequel to The Time Machine and it does a good job picking up on the themes and style of H G Wells original.
The problem is I found it a chore to read. I couldn't relate to the lead character and I just didn't really care about what happened.
