The Color of Paradox by A.M. Dellamonica
My rating: 4/5 cats
All their warnings ran through my mind: If you lied about ever being to Seattle you will die. If there is any metal in your body, you will die.
i loved this and i’m not big on time travel stories, generally. but this one felt so rich with possibility, it’s kind of a shame that this is all there is. it’s a great premise—people are sent, at intervals, back in time to not necessarily “save the world,” but with the modest goal of just pushing the date of the inevitable destruction back a few years each time. and this time, it’s a medium-douchey guy (whose douchiness may be the result of temporary time-travel madness) gone back to the time of his own childhood with a mission he’s not thrilled with, where he will meet the very first agent who went through and she reminds him how little his personal lines in the sand matter when set against the fate of all humanity. it’s lovely and terrifying and it left me wanting so much more. four years on is probably too much time to hope for this to happen, but i will do it anyway.
and that’s all you get: short review for a tor short.
read it for yourself here:
https://www.tor.com/2014/06/25/the-co…
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