Timescape: A Novel

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Winner of the 1980 Nebula Award, Timescape has since become a classic of the science fiction genre, combining hard science, bold speculation, and human drama—a challenging and triumphant tale told by a master storyteller. 

1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet. 

1962. JFK is still president, rock 'n' roll is king, and the Vietnam War hardly merits front-page news. A young assistant researcher at a California university, Gordon Bernstein, notices strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment. Against all odds, facing ridicule and opposition, Bernstein begins to uncover the incredible truth . . . a truth that will change his life and alter history . . . the truth behind time itself.

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4.2
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Timescape is a splendid novel about a race against time to save the world. The book is very long but it is worth the while to read. This science fiction novel is very interesting with its very high vocabulary, its very expressing mood, and of course the story line of how it all was told. It would jump back and forth between time lines like first from the 1990’s back to the 1960’s and then back to the 90’s again. Although I must admit there is some inappropriate language and the vocabulary is a little to high for others so it isn’t for everyone to read. The story begins with a regular man named John Renfrew, a very smart scientist; at home just eat breakfast with his family then going of to work. Although when he goes of he rides his bicycle through the streets of his town that have been destroyed by riots and there are even orphans living in cars. He gets to his lab where he and his colleagues have been working to send a message back to the past to alert people of the situation they are in. They await a man from the senate to come and approve the experiment. The story then takes us to the past where a man named Gordon Bernstein, a young physics professor, is working with a student of his on an experiment in a lab where he hears a tapping sound. He tries to find a reason for the tapping but he runs out of ideas when he checks the equipment in the lab but he then thinks of the tapping pattern so he and his students start to write it down and think ‘what is causing this?’- Morse code. Back in the future it turns out he was right the transmission was in Morse code. So time after time the scientist change the experiment time after time just trying to make it easy but then Gordon then cracks the system they made so the then excepts the message is that the world in the future is a wreck like riots breaking out in the world and decay in the ocean so he start to try and convince everyone that the message he received is from the scientist in the future But as you might expect the people acutely didn’t believe him at first but as he keeps his faith up and he actually got there word.
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Ho lly Ho lly
July 4, 2021
Moi nguoi va moi thu tu ngu va cac cong cu da lam cai dai cua toi vo doi nhu cai hinh bieu tuong cua cuoc sach nay vay.,! Ban co biet.? Noi dung ma toi vua tao, toi vo tinh tao duoc ca cam xuc cua tu nhien, dieu nay la toi thuong nghiem no nhieu lan khi minh co mot cam nhan duoc hoa hop voi tu nhien! Khing than thanh hay tam linh hoac bat ky ma thuat gi ca Ban nhe.!
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Jim Paige
May 14, 2022
Couldn't get to the point of what was going on here that would merit reading beyond the beginning. Disappointing.
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About the author

Gregory Benford, was born on January 30, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama. He is a physicist and science fiction writer who earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1967. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a consultant for NASA. Benford's first novel "Deeper than the Darkness" (1970), which was revised as "The Stars in Shroud" (1978), gave him notice as a serious Science Fiction writer. His most popular work is "Timescape" (1980), which was the winner of the Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards; it presented a hard physics approach to limited time travel. "In the Ocean of Night" (1977), "Across the Sea of Suns" (1984), "Great Sky River" (1987), "Tides of Light" (1989) and "Furious Gulf" (1994) were all a part of the Galactic Cluster Series. He has also written the juvenile novel "Jupiter Project" (1975), "Against Infinity" (1983) and the thriller "Artifact" (1985). He has been nominated for 12 Nebula Awards (winning for "Timescape" and for the novelette, "If the Stars are Gods"). Benford, writing alternately with Bruce Sterling, produces science fact articles for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. They took over after the death of regular columnist Isaac Asimov. He has also co-edited theme anthologies with Martin H. Greenburg, which include "Hitler Victorious" (1986), "Nuclear War" (1988), "What Might Have Been, Volume 1: Alternate Empires" (1988), "Volume 2: Alternate Heroes" (1989) and "Volume 3: Alternate Wars."

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