In the mail: ‘Time and Time Again.’

Time and Time Again is a time travel novel (guy going back to alter the 1914 Sarajevo assassination that kicked off World War I) by Ben Elton, and while it’s been pretty good so far I’m still wondering how I heard about it in the first place. It’s a more literary-minded exploration of the genre than what I’m accustomed to, and I’m not entirely certain that ‘literary-minded’ is a complement in this context. Still, at least I can chuckle about how dated it’s going to become on the subject of global warming. Future scholars are going to write entire doctoral (and ever-so-slightly smug) theses on how this particular boogeyman influenced our art…