Review: Interesting!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
I liked this story for its concept! It is a good read.I wanted to give it five, but I just had problems keeping track of the characters and where they were in time and what was going on, which may have been the point.I really enjoyed the concept, (though i admit i may be interpreting the story differently than was intended), of a person slipping through time and attempting to change the future they see.Essentially there are a couple different groups all trying to "fix" their respective past, presents, and futures. It is difficult to know who is actually helping and who is hindering. There are jumps in the time stream continuity as each player makes small changes. I believe that this "jumping" is supposed to illustrate the fluctuation in reality as each group interacts with the time stream. While it is interesting, it is confusing at first. There is no real explanation that this is what is happening, but on reflecting on the story after finishing it, I believe that is what was happening!Overall I thought it was good, and worth the read. I do not know how it could be written in a way that makes it a bit more clear as to what is going on, if i have interpreted it right. I give kudos to the author for being able to keep all the events straight!There is a character who is attempting to stop a killer from ending the life of a scientist who would cure a plague that wipes out most of humanity.At the same time there is a supercomputer that is also attempting, or it claims to be attempting to mitigate the damage of the viral apocalypse by sending someone from a possible future back to our time to alter events to what it believes will result in the optimal survival rate of humanity, even though it will most likely erase the person it is sending back and their future and world.The clash comes in, when the computer wants the killer to kill a group of NASA scientists that are receiving the financial resources that the computer believes should go to the viral researcher to create a cure, and our time traveler is attempting to stop the killer believing that killing these scientists is the cause of the end.The story does jump around a bit, but as i said, i believe that is meant to illustrate changes in the time stream.There are several other characters and events that occur, that I do not really know how they fit into the story, i can guess, but am inn no way sure.Overall, i think this is a great idea, and hope that another reviewer will clarify some of the nuances for me!