Review: Great time travel story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2013
"Tomorrow Once More" by Dennis Butler is a time travel story with a difference.Beginning already far into our future, the year 2234, our hero Lane travels several centuries ahead of time by use of a new technology which allows him only to travel one way.When he gets out of his travel capsule he gets arrested and put in a work farm. Has he landed in a communist or fascist time, he wonders?Trying to figure out the rules of this new society in 3853 he learns that there are free people and he can fight in a barbaric game to win this freedom.Told in great prose the book is impressive yet easy to read. The story of the futuristic games and the time after are classic science fiction and are wonderful entertainment, but the book has depth and serves well as a reflection on our current society and its possible futures.Having a telescope into various scenarios and seeing it with fresh or old eyes gives ample opportunity for the reader to think for themselves as Lane is coming to terms with his new life.I wish I could tell you more about the later parts of the book and where the story is going but I don't want to spoil the experience. All I can say is that the book is so much more than a one trick pony and has a lot to offer.Great science fiction always has a moral or a deeper thought to it and so has this book. I enjoyed the story and how it made me think, but I was also very taken by Butler's wonderful English.Easily one of the best science fiction I have read.