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Nonspecific minor spoilers.

I feel that this book was most enjoyable for the different sci-fi concepts it explores: time-travel to the future but with only one true "present," aging outside of normal time, flexible future timelines, and an impending doomsday that inexplicably keeps creeping closer to the present. Also for the "we dug too deep" plot trope, which I'm a fan of.

To be honest, I found these ideas to be more intriguing than the criminal caper that plays out in the foreground of the plot, which is interesting but flows a bit unevenly at many points. You know when you read about book and you wanna tell the protagonist "Why are you doing that when any reasonable person would do this??" Many of those moments.

Still, I feel that it came to an appropriate conclusion, and the final sorta-twist isn't so predictable although it's hinted at. Epilogue a bit maudlin.

Overall I'd recommend if any of the above concepts interest you


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The Gone World Tom Sweterlitsch 9780399167508 Books Reviews

The Gone World (Hardcover) by Tom Sweterlitsch

Impossible to put down!! Yes really, it's *that* good! I usually don't care for time travel tales as they usually seem to fall all over themselves with contradictory plot and storylines. No so this one! Also, it's compelling murder mystery, and solving it takes to the edge of space and time, and brings back some unimaginable evil.
The bad guys are very bad, but they are trying to stave off the extinction of Earth. Which they sort of, basically helped to create. The good guys are good, except when thy are bad, and our hero just never quits. No matter when she is busy getting the crap beaten out of her, or even when she finds herself in a lovely triste.
Anyway, you literally will not put this down until you finish, so pick it up now!
If you liked Blake Crouch's novel DARK MATTER about parallel universes, you'll love THE GONE WORLD. It's a Seven-Star SF novel, full of ideas and suspense. As Crouch writes, "I promise you have never read a story like this.”

Shannon Moss is a highly specialized Navy investigator who's been to the far future (2199 perhaps) called Deep Time and to Deep Space, as well as to seven IFTs (inadmissible future trajectories) of possible and wondrous technologically advanced quantum versions of 2015 and 2016 to help solve inexplicable murders in what's called terra firma in 1997 (her real time and place). She discovers extensive fractures and paths in space and time with a locus in a state park in West Virginia, and some versions of people connected to her cases. And on top of that the Terminus dooms humankind, unless it can be .stopped.

Moss has already lost a leg to an impossible future and now must wear a prosthetic limb, but she fights on against multiple realities and injuries, and neither she nor the reader can guess what will happen next, not with IFTs, Deep Space, Deep Time, QNT (quantum nanoparticle tunneling), terrorist attacks, and the Terminus.

Therefore, if you like slightly spooky SF, THE GONE WORLD is for you and stop reading NOW because the rest of the review is for those who've finished the novel and, perhaps in an IFT, for the author himself.
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Some reviewers found parts of the novel tedious or perhaps disliked some of the description. Okay, but the novel lost very little from those parts. It's still a first-rate SF novel--giving it fewer than 5 stars is silly.

However, I have one quibble. Part Five goes into detail about Moss's getting a new prosthetic leg and the story character and process that made it possible--and she cannot get an advanced replacement, but must settle for a 3R60 (old mechanical). But we already know about her many struggles with the prosthetic leg and even the adventure in the future making amputation necessary. Why go over the same ground in detail? If any of this new info is important, it can be inserted with the original description. Yes, she lost her advanced electronically sophisticated leg at the end of Part Four, but she had a clear opportunity to get an even more advanced leg after one of her echoes was brutally murdered. A slight rewrite could have given Moss the better, not the worse, prosthetic leg. Why not? Too easy?.
Well written, but it's way too rushed at the end. It feels like the author just wanted to quickly churn through the ending the reader worked so hard to achieve. Emotions and actions at the end happen very quickly without feeling natural.

I wanted to like this a lot more, but I just can't abide a book that feels rushed at the end. This seems to be happening more these days. The reader deserves a much better, more natural, and well-thought-out payoff than Swterlitsch provides. The pace at the end convolutes what could have been a clearer resolution, and the epilogue is nonsensically tossed in, though I know what Sweterlitsch was trying to convey.

All in all, be prepared for a disappointing payoff to a promising journey.
Nonspecific minor spoilers.

I feel that this book was most enjoyable for the different sci-fi concepts it explores time-travel to the future but with only one true "present," aging outside of normal time, flexible future timelines, and an impending doomsday that inexplicably keeps creeping closer to the present. Also for the "we dug too deep" plot trope, which I'm a fan of.

To be honest, I found these ideas to be more intriguing than the criminal caper that plays out in the foreground of the plot, which is interesting but flows a bit unevenly at many points. You know when you read about book and you wanna tell the protagonist "Why are you doing that when any reasonable person would do this??" Many of those moments.

Still, I feel that it came to an appropriate conclusion, and the final sorta-twist isn't so predictable although it's hinted at. Epilogue a bit maudlin.

Overall I'd recommend if any of the above concepts interest you