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Recurrence Plot: And Other Time Travel Tales by Rasheedah Phillips

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3.0

An experimental, experiental novel. This story discusses irregularities in time at the particle scale and applies them to our scale to get the reader to think of time as something other than linear. Due to this, there were multiple ways to read the novel. I've started reading another way, and I'll say it's a bit confusing. This book is also a scavenger hunt of literary references and takes a similar approach to the plot - readers aren't outright explained the ending and have to piece it together through various accounts and sources. I thought the writing style was a bit inconsistent. There were moments where I really enjoyed the descriptions and times when they felt threadbare. This story is a collage of scientific information (quantum physics, psychology, and ) and the narrative. It was heavier on the scientific information than I would've liked, and it made some plot lines feel neglected.
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