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Timescape

By: Gregory Benford
Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Pete Bradbury
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In a future wracked by environmental catastrophe and social instability, physicist John Renfrew devises a longshot plan to use tachyons - strange, time-traveling particles - to send a warning to the past. In 1962, Gordon Bernstein, a California researcher, gets Renfrew's message as a strange pattern of interference in an experiment he's conducting. As the two men struggle to overcome both the limitations of scientific knowledge and the politics of scientific research, a larger question looms: can a new future arise from the paradox of a forewarned past?

Winner of both the Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Award for best science-fiction novel, Timescape is an enduring classic that examines the ways that science interacts with everyday life to create the many strange worlds in which we live.
©1980 Gregory Benford and Hilary Benford (P)2001 Recorded Books
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  • Nebula Award, Best Novel, 1980

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Good with one flaw.

“Causal” often read as “casual” damaging the authority of the narrator and so reducing the listener’s immersion in the story.

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Hard science style with character development

Hard science style with character development and original story balanced with some drama - good to finish

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Not my kind of timectravel story

Not a fan of time travel stories that use multiple universe theories to avoid paradoxes. What makes time travel stories interesting is the ability to change history. It's not time travel if the information is carried between universes instead of back through the current universe. It's a weasel of a plot device.

The reader pronounces Richard Feynman's name 3 different ways throughout the book, finally getting it right towards the end. I needed google's help to understand Feniman, Faynman and Fineman were the same person.

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