If you have not read Wilson before, you want to start with Spin or Mysterium. I just wonder if time travel has been overdone. Wilson borrows a little from Simak's Way Station and a lot from Michael Kube-McDowell's Alternites, both good books. There is more Sci-Fi in this book then some of his other books and it is pretty cool. RCW, like usual goes for some character development, which he does well, the question is do we really care about his characters? In other books I have, but in this one the main character is just a love sick whinny baby. My point here is that the story goes up and down and when it is up, it is very good and when it is down, it is very depressing. We go up for one floor as we start a war and hold steady for a long fight scene, ending down for tying up depressing loose ends. Up for the nano machines and the rebuilding of a human. Back up for the discovery of a mysterious tunnel under the house and where does it lead? Back down for the romance that is not quite a romance. Then the elevator goes down and we are deep into the depressing life of a man whose wife has left him for another man. We have a rogue military cyborg attacking the time traveler.
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