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suncani 's review for:
The Psychology of Time Travel
by Kate Mascarenhas
I'm very unsure about this book. On one hand, it was easy to read having read it in less than a day or so. On the other, I'm not entirely sure what this book does.
It does investigate the potential psychological effects of time travel, and the resulting procedures put in place to potentially deal with any ramifications, but it also deals with families, relationships, fate, judgement in addition to a murder mystery which is predominantly in the background. For me this is it's greatest flaw.
It has a lot of interesting concepts and ideas, most of which aren't addressed because it hops from one idea to the next. What would it mean to have law based on fate? What effect does an individual person have on a company's ethos, environment and relationships? How do you have a relationship with someone who's zipping backwards and forwards in time, particularly when the balance of power is so uneven. These are all things the book starts to engage with and then disappears off onto something else.
It does investigate the potential psychological effects of time travel, and the resulting procedures put in place to potentially deal with any ramifications, but it also deals with families, relationships, fate, judgement in addition to a murder mystery which is predominantly in the background. For me this is it's greatest flaw.
It has a lot of interesting concepts and ideas, most of which aren't addressed because it hops from one idea to the next. What would it mean to have law based on fate? What effect does an individual person have on a company's ethos, environment and relationships? How do you have a relationship with someone who's zipping backwards and forwards in time, particularly when the balance of power is so uneven. These are all things the book starts to engage with and then disappears off onto something else.