Fringe Fiction Unlimited discussion

One Day All This Will Be Yours

I'll just post my review of this one here.
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eventually I ended up in a staff meeting where seventy-five per cent of the people were actually me, from various points in my career. (c)

First of all, I'm so very-darn-awful mad on behalf of Miffly. One day they give you the nice 'I had a blast at Pompeii' necklace and the next they murder you with the Causality Bomb. I'd eat them all on her behalf!

On that note, I think I've just found my soulmate in Adrian Tschaikovsky! The guy who wrote this gem is definitely worthy of reading, just in case he produces any more gems like this one!

Hilarious take on the familial ties: your distant twee descendants who behave like a reverse Auntie 'who wants you to get it on, finally’ and chases you around the shores of distant time(s) with flipcharts…. I think Smantha and Weldon are my new fav characters for worlds to come!

The MCs are so WONDERFULLY obstinate and endearingly sociopathic that I love them (even though they don’t make sense about 77% of the end of time).

I am not so fond of the ending, I rarely enjoy open endings. But, I think I’ll let it slide considering how dynamic everything is, ultimately.

I have always been wary of the time travel books. I read them, enjoy them, love them but am wary of them for some unfathomable reason. Maybe because I really, really, really strongly empathise that poor butterfly that gets squashed all the time (or just that one time in the past). And then you come back and suddenly you live in a very different place that doesn’t work anymore for you. Makes one weary: how to you really make sure you don’t change any (scratch those insects, microworld also matters) photons in the past? Yes, photons, I love how AT refers them as well! Looks like a very horrible things are afoot with time travel, so it’s not very conductive to relaxing.

This novel, I think, has healed my tender sensibilities on time travel via making all this stuff so very tongue in cheek and lighthearted and hilarious. I love this concept and totally enjoyed the antihero battle with the final Miffly’s snack, the trolling of everyone, Caligula included, and the rest of sheer awesomeness AT has whipped up for us! Tweeeeeeeee!!!!!

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desperation stains the soul if you stew in it long enough. You can tell someone who literally has nowhere in all of time and space they call home, orphaned from all of causation, and these two aren’t it. They’re far too comfortable and cheery. I recognise people with a solid When behind them, the products of a logical sequence of consecutive events. (c)
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I am my own paradox. (c)
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It’s not often one finds one can save the world by sheer indolence. (c)
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I kick off my spring break by falling in with Odysseus just as he’s about to leave the smoking ruins of Troy. I mean, if you’re looking for a pointlessly complicated journey with lots of waiting around, you honestly can’t beat an angry Greek man spending far too long trying to get across one of the smallest seas in the world. (c)
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Everyone dies, after all; every good time ends. Time itself ended. They are doomed, but in their doomed moment they live forever, and at least they had a good time for one night. Sometimes that’s all that counts. (c)
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I am genuinely mad, bad and dangerous to know, and in at least three versions of events that’s something Lord Byron ends up saying about me. (c)
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And I’m sure you’re a very nice girl and everything, but I really need to murder you now. Look, can you just drink the wine? (c)
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They are the most malign animals I ever saw. Their eyes don’t actually glow red like the pits of Hades but they might as well, and if I were to look close enough I reckon even their fleas have eyepatches and carry flick-knives. (c)
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As such, the prenuptial present of some rabid carnivores is perplexing, to say the least. I feel a great need to quiz her about it ... (c)
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“She doesn’t want to. And I don’t want to. We’re getting along platonically just exactly fine.” Meaning we spent all afternoon throwing things at Plato and it was hilarious. (c)

I'm hearing the rest of his works is just as spectacular as this one!!!