Weighing Shadows, by Lisa Goldstein
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Weighing Shadows, by Lisa Goldstein
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A new time-traveling fantasy from National Book Award-winner Lisa Goldstein.Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by—until one day she's contacted with a job offer for a company called Transformations Incorporated. None of her coworkers have ever heard of it before, and when Ann is finally told what the company does, she can hardly believe it: TI has invented technology to travel in time.Soon Ann is visiting a matriarchy in ancient Crete, and then a woman mathematician at the Library of Alexandria. But Transformations Incorporated remains shrouded in mystery, and when Ann finally catches her breath, there are too many troubling questions still unanswered. Who are Transformations Incorporated, and what will they use this technology to gain? What ill effects might going back in time have on the present day? Is it really as harmless as TI says?When a coworker turns up dead, Ann’s superiors warn her about a covert group called Core out to sabotage the company. Something just isn’t right, but before she has time to investigate, Ann is sent to a castle in the south of France, nearly a thousand years in the past. As the armies of the Crusade arrive to lay siege, and intrigue grows among the viscount’s family, Ann will discover the startling truth—not just about the company that sent her there, but also about her own past.
Weighing Shadows, by Lisa Goldstein- Amazon Sales Rank: #33174 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "It's so rare to see somebody doing something really interesting and different with time travel. Goldstein always impresses me, and Weighing Shadows is one of her best."—Jo Walton, Hugo Award-winning author of Among Others and My Real Children"Weighing Shadows shimmers with intelligence and intrigue. It is that rare phenomenon: a science-fiction novel that faces squarely the hard trade-offs between compassion and self-preservation. This is story-telling at its best."—Nancy Kress, Hugo and Nebula-Award winning author of Beggars in Spain"Weighing Shadows passes the acid test of time-travel fiction with flying colors—it makes you think about the past in a brand new way, both in a personal sense and in terms of the weight of history. It turns out Lisa Goldstein's time travelers are just as fascinating as her travelers in magic."—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
About the Author Lisa Goldstein is the National Book Award-winning fantasy author of The Red Magician. Her stories have appeared in Ms., Asimov’s Science Fiction, and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and her novels and short stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Her most recent novel, The Uncertain Places, won the 2012 Mythopoeic Award, and her short story “Paradise Is a Walled Garden” won the 2011 Sidewise Award. Goldstein lives with her husband and their Labrador retriever, Bonnie, in Oakland, California.No Bio
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful. Trite By Amazon Customer I was really disappointed in this. The characters were two dimensional, as was the plot. The "good" people and "bad" people were so stereotypical I felt like my intelligence was being insulted. I liked the idea of the time travel, but was expecting the nuance of Kage Baker and The Company. There were no shades of gray in this book though, and no delving into an historical time and place in a way that made me understand it better. Places and cultures were idealized or the opposite in this book- again, two dimensional. If you want time travel science fiction that truly engages you and you haven't tried Kage Baker's books, I would recommend you check those out first.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Interesting concept but lacked historical detail By CurlyGeek04 This is a book with an interesting concept but there were a few things that didn’t work for me at all.This book starts out just like Time and Again by Jack Finney, with our main character Ann being asked to apply for a top-secret, very mysterious job. Ann gets stopped by a strange woman who asks her to get into her car and go to an undisclosed location to apply for a job she knows nothing about. As I was reading, all I could think was that Ann was clearly getting duped into some kind of sex trafficking ring. But no, she’s actually given the opportunity to jump around in time, explore history, and make subtle changes that will improve how the world turns out.The Company uses computer algorithms to test which small changes will have positive results --only they expect the time travelers to follow orders without questioning their rationale. Ann meets a fellow traveler who claims that the Company is trying to subvert ancient matriarchal cultures in favor of patriarchal cultures, so that men will be more dominant throughout history. It’s a fascinating idea although it feels a little one-sided in suggesting that all matriarchal cultures are good (less war and no one goes hungry) and all patriarchal cultures are bad.The history/time travel parts are fun, and I loved reading about ancient Egypt and medieval Carcassonne, but I had some problems with the way this book was written. I felt like this book really lacked the attention to historical detail I want in a time travel novel. The time travelers are schooled in whatever language they need to use and supposedly they learn about the cultures they are visiting as well, but that’s done by magic pill rather than months of training. The dialogue is all written in a modern, casual tone. And finally, I’m not a big fan of when science fiction writers change one or two words to make their language sound futuristic. In this book, “place” is replaced by “tace” (time and place) and “there” is replaced by “thern” (there and then). I find it a distracting device.Note: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Edelweiss and publisher Night Shade in exchange for an honest review. My full review is at http://thebookstop.wordpress.com.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Major Disappointment By shane p. murphy When I came across this book, it seemed interesting and the cover blurbs, which I usually take with a huge grain of salt, seemed to describe a really good read. In particular, Nancy Kress, who I think is a great author said, "This is story telling at its best. " No. This is story telling at its most boring. A not original idea of an organization sending agents back in time to change their dystopian world was spun out in a narrative full of plot holes. The ending was so poor that I suspect there may be a sequel in the works. If so, I may read it just to see if the story is resolved. But, there are many, many far better time travel books out there.
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