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laurelckriegler's review
4.0
This is a review for The Mouse Ran Down by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Some time after the end of time, human refugees from the end of time hide out in time fragments, shifting from fragment to fragment in a bid to survive. But there's a catch. They're losing fragments, as an enemy is shutting them down one by one.
The story opens on a band of refugee humans hiding in 1500s London. Their time there has come to an end, though, and it's time to move on - to Babylon. Only to discover that the enemy has shut that fragment down, and so they must move on again, to a 1943 Warsaw ghetto. Things start closing down, and the narrator is sent off in search of Doctor Comoy, who is allegedly attempting to fix time.
What a fun story. Serious, really, considering it's about the time beyond the end of time, and deteriorating time at that, but fun nevertheless. I enjoyed some of Tchaikovsky's descriptions of the time fragmentation and how things had got into the state they were, and the imagery of how people lived through these fragments of time and moved around between the fragments like they're little islands on a sea.
A very enjoyable, although perhaps poignant, story.
Some time after the end of time, human refugees from the end of time hide out in time fragments, shifting from fragment to fragment in a bid to survive. But there's a catch. They're losing fragments, as an enemy is shutting them down one by one.
The story opens on a band of refugee humans hiding in 1500s London. Their time there has come to an end, though, and it's time to move on - to Babylon. Only to discover that the enemy has shut that fragment down, and so they must move on again, to a 1943 Warsaw ghetto. Things start closing down, and the narrator is sent off in search of Doctor Comoy, who is allegedly attempting to fix time.
What a fun story. Serious, really, considering it's about the time beyond the end of time, and deteriorating time at that, but fun nevertheless. I enjoyed some of Tchaikovsky's descriptions of the time fragmentation and how things had got into the state they were, and the imagery of how people lived through these fragments of time and moved around between the fragments like they're little islands on a sea.
A very enjoyable, although perhaps poignant, story.