Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.
Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over …
Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.
Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.
Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.
Docela me to bavilo i pres trosku pomalejsi tempo a kdyz sme se dostali k Leadbelly / In the pines od Nirvany (fajn vtipek), tak sem pochopil, ze asi bude vsechno uplne jinak. Bohuzel druha pulka, jak byla v o hodne rychlejsim tempu/akcnejsi, tak byla taky dost nesmyslna. Autor se do toho docela zamotal a celkove to je spis slatanina.
A kdyz koukam na jiny recence, tak vidim cast nadsencu a cast co to povazuji za brak. Jako nijak me neva, ze sem to dal, par myslenek stalo za to, nicmene tady se melo v pulce nak rozumne pokracovat.
Awesome apocalyptic sci-fi horror with a murder mystery twist. A totally engrossing and mind-bending thriller that has an inventive premise but doesn't get bogged down in complex science.
Sorry (not sorry) but I just couldn't finish. I literally got to within about 15 pages of the end, and finally just had to give up.
The story isn't too bad, at least for the beginning. Shannon Moss is investigating a strange set of murders and uses time travel to investigate it. Before you laugh, just know that it is about as realistic portrayal of time travel as I have come across. It is a secret government agency(!) that does it, via a base on the moon (!!). But they can only travel in the future, so a minimum number of paradoxes. The the "shards" of time are just one of an infinite number of possible futures. So while you can't know if that will be the "real" future, you can use it to get info from the past. It also leads to what th investigators called the "butterfly in …
Sorry (not sorry) but I just couldn't finish. I literally got to within about 15 pages of the end, and finally just had to give up.
The story isn't too bad, at least for the beginning. Shannon Moss is investigating a strange set of murders and uses time travel to investigate it. Before you laugh, just know that it is about as realistic portrayal of time travel as I have come across. It is a secret government agency(!) that does it, via a base on the moon (!!). But they can only travel in the future, so a minimum number of paradoxes. The the "shards" of time are just one of an infinite number of possible futures. So while you can't know if that will be the "real" future, you can use it to get info from the past. It also leads to what th investigators called the "butterfly in a bell jar" problem - if you keep the investigator in the "shard" of time, it will stick around! So you can capture and imprison them to keep your current future going. Unfortunately, this interesting thing isn't really followed.
But then she starts investigating basically time travel terrorists, who are trying to avoid the Terminus - the end of the world. And something called the Vardogger(!!!) tree comes up and she zips around time and things get very very confusing and, well, I just gave up. I honestly didn't care what happened to the Vardogger tree.
Probably more of a 2.5 star, but because of the fascinating beginning I'll put it up to a 3.
Dark and twisted crime and time fiction. Infinite echoes crossing paths and strands. Past and future colliding, looping, illusory threads of different lives lived; one possible interaction becoming the probable bane of all futures.
Special Agent Shannon Moss has two missions: solve a murder, and stop the end of the world. What is the endgame when the pieces keep changing?
I received an Advance Reader Copy from NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam in exchange for an honest review.
