The Revelations of Time and Space, by Brian Stableford. Snuggly Books, 2020
Review by Sally Startup
A fascinating work of science fiction, and also a story about love and empathy. This is both a recycling of many previous stories and a completely new extrapolation of ideas.
I found this novel gripping; plausible and scary. It is, after all, a description of the end of my own world. Part one is told from the point of view of Zephaniah Corcoran, who finds conventional social interraction with his own species problematic, yet has a unique gift for empathising with non-human beings. In part two, the viewpoint switches to that of his sister Denise, who has had to live in the shadow of her brother’s fame. Together, they are facing an apocalypse, yet there are still various important personal choices to be made.
The author took my imagination in directions I would never have found on my own. Though filled with some very intricate explanations of invented future technology, the novel is about people. It is also about who, and what, our understanding of people might expand to include. I enjoyed it with relish. It also had the delicious effect of returning into my thoughts many times after I had come to the end of the last sentence.
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Thank you for the review! Do you have a publishing date? I do hope they will publish it soon, releasing teasers for books not to be published in a year is just irritating.
Sorry if I have published this review too soon. Snuggly have the book listed as forthcoming, so I assumed it was available to preorder… hope I’m right, apologies if not.
I’ll definitely visit this blog again, thank you 🙂
Have you read Stableford’s Walking Shadow? With your interesting in green themes, I’m wondering what you thought of his notion of plant life and even more so, did you understand the ending?
That’s not one I remember reading. I’ll have to look it out.