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| From | Don <g@crcomp.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.misc |
| Subject | Re: SF: Book recommendations |
| Date | 2026-02-01 16:48 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20260201b@crcomp.net> (permalink) |
| References | (7 earlier) <10leq0v$122uu$1@dont-email.me> <0ctqnk14p38blmjoh391b6kbggh5fciutk@4ax.com> <10lk4a9$2le82$3@dont-email.me> <MPG.43e7bd1e8c811bf5989a61@news.eternal-september.org> <rcpunktrklf3rcknciq32bkdemjn2uvai0@4ax.com> |
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Steve Hayes wrote:
> The True Melissa wrote:
>>Verily, in article <10lk4a9$2le82$3@dont-email.me>, did
>>noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:
>>> > Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
>>>
>>> Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
>>> with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
>>
>>Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love
>>story, it's nice IMO.
>
> It's more than a love story. It's based o fictional science, without
> which it wouldn't work. I enjoyed it too,
Great observation! Here's a pertinent excerpt:
As I enter Dr. Kendrick's office, he is making notes in a file.
I sit down and he continues to write. He is younger than I
thought he would be; late thirties. I always expect doctors to
be old men. I can't help it, it's left over from my childhood
of endless medical men. Kendrick is red-haired, thin-faced,
bearded, with thick wire-rimmed glasses. He looks a little bit
like D. H. Lawrence. He's wearing a nice charcoal-gray suit and
a narrow dark green tie with a rainbow trout tie clip. An
ashtray overflows at his elbow; the room is suffused with
cigarette smoke, although he isn't smoking right now.
Everything is very modern: tubular steel, beige twill, blond
wood. He looks up at me and smiles.
"Good morning, Mr. DeTamble. What can I do for you?"
He is looking at his calendar. "I don't seem to have any
information about you, here? What seems to be the problem?"
"Dasein."
Kendrick is taken aback. " Dasein? Being? How so?"
"I have a condition which I'm told will become known as
Chrono-Impairment. I have difficulty staying in the present."
"I'm sorry?"
"I time travel. Involuntarily."
Kendrick is flustered, but subdues it. I like him. He is
attempting to deal with me in a manner befitting a sane person,
although I'm sure he is considering which of his psychiatrist
friends to refer me to.
"But why do you need a geneticist? Or are you consulting
me as a philosopher?"
"It's a genetic disease. Although it will be pleasant to
have someone to chat with about the larger implications of the
problem."
"Mr. DeTamble. You are obviously an intelligent man...I've
never heard of this disease. I can't do anything for you."
"You don't believe me."
"Right. I don't."
Now I am smiling, ruefully. I feel horrible about this,
but it has to be done. "Well. I've been to quite a few doctors
in my life, but this is the first time I've ever had anything
to offer in the way of proof. Of course no one ever believes
me. You and your wife are expecting a child next month?"
He is wary. "Yes. How do you know?"
"In a few years I look up your child's birth certificate.
I travel to my wife's past, I write down the information in
this envelope. She gives it to me when we meet in the present.
I give it to you, now. Open it after your son is born."
"We're having a daughter."
"No, you're not, actually," I say gently. "But let's not
quibble about it. Save that, open it after the child is born.
Don't throw it out. After you read it, call me, if you want
to." I get up to leave. "Good luck," I say, although I do
not believe in luck, these days. I am deeply sorry for him,
but there's no other way to do this.
"Goodbye, Mr. DeTamble," Dr. Kendrick says coldly. I
leave. As I get into the elevator I think to myself that he
must be opening the envelope right now. Inside is a sheet of
typing paper. It says:
Colin Joseph Kendrick
April 6, 1996 1:18 a.m.
6 lbs. 8 oz Caucasian male
Down Syndrome
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