Review: Not your average time travel story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2012
Most of the time travel stories I read don't contain a lot of negative results. There's usually a warning about encountering a past or future self, but that's about it. "Dr. Who" even makes time travel fun.That's not the case in SILHOUETTE. The story is a little dark from the beginning. Scientists, toiling away in secrecy and sometimes, it seems, in fear. Madness and death. And there is Brian, who has stumbled on a fantastic discovery - time travel.It's pretty clear that Brian's increasing obsession with his work has caused difficulty in his marriage. He looks at time travel as a way of fixing things. But is it? That haunting final note, "Now you understand," makes the answer pretty clear to me. Be careful what you wish for.I've always thought science fiction was good for exploring this type of human drama because of it's fantastic nature, not limited by "real" science or fact. Within a wide limit, anything goes. Casey does a good job exploring the consequences of human choices, both obsession and the results, in this story.I read this while waiting for biscuits to cook on Thanksgiving. A nice. short read to fill 10-20 minutes, but one that leaves you still thinking about it after you're done.