Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds.
Together they realise that they have the power to alter history and eradicate a great evil. But tinkering with timelines is more dangerous than they can imagine and nothing - past, present or future - will ever be the same again.
'The tensions and resolutions are intrinsically comic, made still more enjoyable by [Fry's] sinuous invention and cleverness at caricature' Spectator
'Sprightly and entertaining' Telegraph
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099457060
Number of pages: 592
Weight: 405 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
Stephen Fry at his twinkling best - Sunday Times
His best novel yet ... an extravagant, deeply questioning work of science fiction - GQ
A sci-fi comedy that is also a time-travel thriller, constantly topical and always surprising... packed with the author's personal enthusiasm and hatreds, the former red-hot and the latter icy-black - Literary Review
A powerful imaginative pull that keeps the pages turning while the tea goes cold and the cat gets the goldfish - The Independent
A sprightly and entertaining read - Daily Telegraph
Difficult to review this as I don't like to give plots away. Now I'm aware it's an old book but that doesn't mean you should be told everything that happens. So, this is a very well written and... More
An interesting idea that would be great for a dinner table conversation and to make you think of the impact of history on our lives now and our culture, technology and so on.
However, I unfortunately didn't...
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