Time Was

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Time Was
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ian McDonald
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 128
Category/GenreScience fiction
Romance
ISBN/Barcode 9780765391469
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher St Martin's Press
Imprint Tor Books
Publication Date 24 April 2018
Publication Country United States

Description

A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found. Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their desperate timelines overlap.

Author Biography

Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He now lives in Belfast.

Reviews

With echoes of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and replete with the inimitable scent of used bookstores, Time Was weaves an exquisite spell of love, war and quantum physics that is timeless in its appeal. A scientific romance in the most evocative sense of the word. --Nina Allan McDonald's gift for storytelling is on full display as he captures the emotional nuances of a decades-long love while exploring issues of military and scientific might and the state of the contemporary book industry. --Booklist