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The Map of Time
Written by Félix J. Palma
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Average Score:
74(5)
THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time boasts a triple-play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and thereby save the lives of an aristocrat in love with a murdered prostitute from the past; of a woman bent on fleeing the strictures of Victorian society; and of his very own wife, who may have become a pawn in a 4th-dimensional plot to murder the authors of Dracula, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, in order to alter their identities and steal their fictional creations. But, what happens if we change history? FÉlix J. Palma raises such questions in The Map of Time. Mingling fictional characters with real ones, Palma weaves a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting, a story full of love and adventure that also pays homage to the roots of science fiction while transporting its readers to a fascinating Victorian London for their own taste of time travel.
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Book Details
Science Fiction
Paperback,
528 Pages
Published
by HarperCollins on June 09, 2011
ISBN-10 0007344120
ISBN-13 978-0007344123
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Reviews
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Fantasy Literature
| Marion Deeds
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Review Rating: 90
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The collaboration between Palma and Nick Caistor, his translator, creates a rich, textured, humorous text that holds multiple layers of meaning.
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Fantasy Literature
| Robert Thompson
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Review Rating: 90
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Even with imperfections, Félix J. Palma's The Map of Time is quite possibly a masterpiece, if not a future classic.
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The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation
| Jonathan Cowie
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Review Rating: 80
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This is a beautifully crafted story that does adequately convey London of the time reasonably well: especially so considering Palma is not to my knowledge a Londoner.
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Fantasy Literature
| Bill Capossere
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Review Rating: 70
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There's a lot to enjoy in its 600 pages, but not enough to justify that length, and that tips The Map of Time into the not recommended category.
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Strange Horizons
| Nathaniel Katz
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Review Rating: 40
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It's enjoyable for a time, but, even if it didn't determinedly destroy its own sets before it was done, it makes itself too repulsive for that enjoyment to last.
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