A review by yavin_iv
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.
i love politics in my stories as much as the next leftist but this was unsubtle in a way that just did not feel like serving the narrative. right around the time i gave up, one of the two narrators is getting drinks with temporally-local friends in the 1890s--there's a weird segue about how the gin reminds tess of her friends back in 2022, which reminds her (specifically) of when her trans woman friend sued her academic department for discrimination in the tenure process, which... great! it's completely unrelated to what's going on in the scene! and then there's a couple pages of debate around the anarchist praxis of parsons vs goldman, which--cool! doesn't push the story forward! i'm sure there are ways to incorporate these thoughts and ideas into a story like this so that it comes across as more organic instead of Look At How Conscious And Well-Read I Am. 
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