Someone in Time

De: Jonathan Strahan

Narrado por: Theo Solomon, Jennifer Tyler

Duración: 11 h y 52 m

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Brought to you by Penguin.

Love brought together or torn apart by time travel.

This anthology is the latest collection of time-travel romance sci-fi short stories from prominent, award-winning sci-fi authors including Nina Allan, Carrie Vaughn and Seanan McGuire. Follow time travellers of all genders as they go backward and forward in time, sometimes to save the one they love, other times as a sacrifice and others simply because it's their job. Some travel through memory, others through dreams and others still through time machines to touch people who would otherwise be out of reach, and to join them together. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad and poignant, some are tales of fresh love and some of love forever lost, but they all are rather wonderful.

Including stories by: Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Gailey, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, Elizabeth Hand, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Catherynne M. Valente, Sam J. Miller, Rowan Coleman, Margo Lanagan, Sameem Siddiqui, Theodora Goss, Carrie Vaughn and Ellen Klages.

©2022 Jonathan Strahan (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Amazing story telling

So many of my favorite authors were a part of this lovely compilation, and it helped me discover even more authors to catch up on! A lovely mix of a diverse set of voices. Straight, queer, old, young, varying races, you name it! Will be listening to again soon.

Some gems and mostly LGBT

Bergamot and Vetiver by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★★½
“How do you think their civilization came to an end? It was always us, all along.”

Ouch. It stings but I love this kind of story. Dear hero, didn’t you know? You’re the bad guy.

Roadside Attraction by Alix E. Harrow ★★★★☆
“I think the stone takes you where you’re supposed to be. Where you make sense.”
“Doesn’t the stone keep taking you back here?”

A layered story of the extraordinary and common colliding! A time travel device is found, but as it is random and uncontrollable, it ends up as a road side attraction. A man throws himself repeatedly into the past to find his great destiny, while the love of his life waits patiently in an RV.

Romance: Historical by Rowan Coleman ★★★★☆
Ahhh! No, it was going so well. This was adorable and then, and then… stop it with the sad stories!

A Letter to Merlin by Theodora Goss ★★★★☆
At the end of the time stream, the few advanced humans remaining recruit dying souls to save our race. I love Theodora Goss!

Time Gypsy by Ellen Klages ★★★★☆
A doctoral student goes back in time and falls for the trail brazing scientist that inspired her.

I Remember Satellites by Sarah Gailey ★★★½☆
Proposes that Wallis Simpson was a purpose sent time traveler to remove the fascist future king from the throne.

The Golden Hour by Jeffrey Ford ★★★½☆
This was a disorienting story. Time travelers are finding their way towards each other and seem to have created worlds that cannot survive without them.

First Aid by Seanan McGuire ★★★☆☆
A government funded time traveler set arrive in Tudor times arrives at a Renaissance Fair in 1996. It’s not much of a story but the beginning was entertaining.

Dead Poets by Carrie Vaughn ★★★☆☆
An ancient cup sends people through time when wine is drunk out of it. But you don’t have any control as to when you end up.

The Past Life, Reconstruction Service by Zen Cho ★★½☆☆
Paying to enter his past lives for half an hour at a time, a man discovers his ex is his soulmate. It was boring.

The Lichens by Nina Allan ★★☆☆☆
Another forbidden time travel romance story. But this made less sense as every time the time traveler saw someone it was their first time being seen. Or that was the space-time-continuum rule of the story. Even why they traveled was not clear.

Kronia by Elizabeth Hand ★★☆☆☆
That was just a long list of scenarios.

Unbashed, or: Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse by Sam J. Miller ★★☆☆☆
Just a long sad list of scenarios.

The Place of All the Souls by Margo Lanagan ★★☆☆☆
I actually swayed when I heard 26 pregnancies, 23 of them as an occupation. The rest of the story is a long conversation on regret.

Timed Obsolescence by Sameem Siddiqui DNF
I lost interest halfway. I can’t even tell you what it’s about.

The Difference Between Love and Time by Catherynne M. Valente DNF
I made it halfway. I either love her work or toss it across the room.

I finished 14/16 stories that averaged 3.14 stars.

Heartbreaking and beautiful

There are so many incredible and moving stories in this anthology that I can’t cover them all. It’s an incredible read that covers all spectrums of love not just romantic. If one story stood out above the others it is because I was so broken after reading it that I had to sit with it for weeks before I could read again. It’s hard when something rings so true to your own experience that you can’t stop crying. Please read this book, break your heart and learn to love again.