Timescape (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Gregory Benford
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alternate history
- Time of Work: 1998 and an alternate 1960’s
- Setting: Cambridge, England, and La Jolla, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Alternate history
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, California, West, U.S., England or English people, Time travel, 1990’s, Environment or environmental health
- Locales: California, Cambridge, England
The Plot
Gregory Benford’s novel deals with the interaction of two periods, the end of the millennium and the year 1963. By 1998, ecological catastrophes such as marine algae blooms have reached such terrifying dimensions that a group of British scientists attempts, with the help of faster-than-light tachyons, to send a message back in time in order to change the course of history. The recipient is Gordon Bernstein, a physics professor at the University of California, La Jolla, in 1963.
The Cambridge group of the year 1998 is acting under extremely unfavorable...
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