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Despite my many misgivings with the structure of the book, science fiction fans will still gain some joy from the well-designed world building by Dickinson. An alternative present day that has visitors from the future is an intriguing one and I love the fact that they only come back to gape at the backward yokels. If Dickinson has kept to one character to follow, or simplified the story even further, there would have been enough in the world alone to make the book entertaining. As it is, the complexities and rules of time travel are followed and this leads to a book that does not follow the most interesting direction for the reader, but is compelled to conclude in the only way it can – dryly.

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