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Imagine a world where time travel is possible. Now imagine a world where the mummified head of an Einstein clone is helping a secret sect, led by a quasi-hermaphroditic ghost who speaks in iambic pentameter, track down and locate the time machine, an integral component of which is Charlie Chaplin's footprints in a cement slab, and you'll begin to get a grasp on just how bizarrely populated Powers' world is. Almost despite its wonderful weirdness, this thriller maneuvers at a frantic clip as Frank Marrity, Einstein's great-grandson, must pit his wits against not only the malicious secret society bent on attaining immortality but also a specialized paranormal branch of Israel's Mossad, who'd like to use the time machine to avert the Six Days' War of 1967, a stunning psychic assassin who can only see out of other people's eyes, and none other than his own bitter, alcoholic future Frank Marrity self to save his daughter, Daphne, from not merely death but from never having been. Powers' metaphysics come off a tad muddled, almost as if he is making them up as he goes along, but their very outlandishness makes the story all the more compelling, no matter how ludicrous. Ian Chipman
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“Quirky, humorous and packed with suspense, THREE DAYS TO NEVER is a head-spinning thriller.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch )
“A wild and wooly romp-fun.” (Library Journal )
“Machiavellian . . . [A]n astonishingly sophisticated and engrossing narrative.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )
“Top-notch ...[T]he ingenious plot...manages to be intricate without becoming convoluted, to its highly satisfying conclusion.” (Publishers Weekly )
“[A] breathtaking achievement, the complexity of which a review can only begin to capture...[A] powerful work.” (Locus )
“Moves at a frantic clip...[the] very outlandishness [of Powers’s metaphysics] makes the story all the more compelling.” (Booklist )
“[An] intense, downhill-race of a story . . . the summer sleeper hit of 2006.” (Denver Post )
“Grade: A . . . Combining historical fact, science-fiction and thriller pacing, THREE DAYS TO NEVER is worth the wait.” (Rocky Mountain News )
“Brio, bravado and a salutary measure of lunacy . . . A postmodern work par excellence.” (Washington Post Book World )
“[THREE DAYS TO NEVER] contains so many genuine pleasures...plenty of action, humor and unexpectedly touching human drama.” (San Francisco Chronicle )
“A wild and wooly romp-fun.” (Library Journal )
“Machiavellian . . . [A]n astonishingly sophisticated and engrossing narrative.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )
“Top-notch ...[T]he ingenious plot...manages to be intricate without becoming convoluted, to its highly satisfying conclusion.” (Publishers Weekly )
“[A] breathtaking achievement, the complexity of which a review can only begin to capture...[A] powerful work.” (Locus )
“Moves at a frantic clip...[the] very outlandishness [of Powers’s metaphysics] makes the story all the more compelling.” (Booklist )
“[An] intense, downhill-race of a story . . . the summer sleeper hit of 2006.” (Denver Post )
“Grade: A . . . Combining historical fact, science-fiction and thriller pacing, THREE DAYS TO NEVER is worth the wait.” (Rocky Mountain News )
“Brio, bravado and a salutary measure of lunacy . . . A postmodern work par excellence.” (Washington Post Book World )
“[THREE DAYS TO NEVER] contains so many genuine pleasures...plenty of action, humor and unexpectedly touching human drama.” (San Francisco Chronicle )
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Diesmal hat Tim Powers einen Thriller geschrieben, der zwar in der Gegenwart spielt, jedoch bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit, das heißt die zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts zurück reicht.
Eine alte Frau ist verstorben, seltsamerweise 500 Meilen weiter von dem Ort, von dem sie noch vor einer halben Stunde telefoniert hatte.
Ein Literaturwissenschaftler und seine Tochter, der Enkel und die Urenkelin der Verstorbenen stoßen auf ein Geheimnis, das sowohl mit Parapsychologie aber auch Physik zu tun hat.
Noch können sie sich gar nichts erklären, was hatte ihre Urgroßmutter mit Einstein zu tun?
Während beide noch rätseln sind auch andere Gruppierungen an der Geschichte der Urgroßmutter interessiert. Eine inoffiziell operierende Truppe des israelischen Geheimdienstes genauso wie eine Gruppe, die sich Vesper nennt und bereits unter dem Namen Ahnenerbe eine zeitlang mit den Nazis zusammengearbeitet hatte.
Der Thriller ist gespickt mit paranormalen Phänomenen: Hellseherei, Gedankenlesen- und -kontrolle, Astralkörperprojektion, Teleportation und Telekinese wechseln einander in rasanten Tempo ab. Selbst Geisterbeschwörung spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei diesem Verwirrspiel bei dem Daphne und Frank Marrity zwischen die Interessen zweier rivalisierender Gruppen geraten.
Die Geschichte steht und fällt damit, dass man akzeptiert, das Einstein auch an der Erforschung paranormaler Phänomenen interessiert war.
Spannend und aktionreich, am Ende etwas verwirrend.
Eine alte Frau ist verstorben, seltsamerweise 500 Meilen weiter von dem Ort, von dem sie noch vor einer halben Stunde telefoniert hatte.
Ein Literaturwissenschaftler und seine Tochter, der Enkel und die Urenkelin der Verstorbenen stoßen auf ein Geheimnis, das sowohl mit Parapsychologie aber auch Physik zu tun hat.
Noch können sie sich gar nichts erklären, was hatte ihre Urgroßmutter mit Einstein zu tun?
Während beide noch rätseln sind auch andere Gruppierungen an der Geschichte der Urgroßmutter interessiert. Eine inoffiziell operierende Truppe des israelischen Geheimdienstes genauso wie eine Gruppe, die sich Vesper nennt und bereits unter dem Namen Ahnenerbe eine zeitlang mit den Nazis zusammengearbeitet hatte.
Der Thriller ist gespickt mit paranormalen Phänomenen: Hellseherei, Gedankenlesen- und -kontrolle, Astralkörperprojektion, Teleportation und Telekinese wechseln einander in rasanten Tempo ab. Selbst Geisterbeschwörung spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei diesem Verwirrspiel bei dem Daphne und Frank Marrity zwischen die Interessen zweier rivalisierender Gruppen geraten.
Die Geschichte steht und fällt damit, dass man akzeptiert, das Einstein auch an der Erforschung paranormaler Phänomenen interessiert war.
Spannend und aktionreich, am Ende etwas verwirrend.
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The Importance of Making the Right Choice
4. September 2006
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I find nothing quite so thought provoking as a good time-travel story and Three Days to Never ranks among the best I've encountered. It is presented in a mystery/thriller format but with the intriguing twist that paranormal phenomena have been as well developed as more recognizable physics; such as relativity. Instead of Men in Black running around hiding alien technology we have shadowy secret agents using psychics the way the NSA uses computers. A nice wrinkle.
My pet peeve with mysteries is that an author is often either so cryptic that you never really figure out what was going on or presents a story so transparent that you have it figured out half way through. Powers succeeds at bringing the reader forward at just the right pace and at building a solid and satisfying moral conclusion that makes you think after you have finished the story.
What happens when the past can be changed? Should the past be tampered with? This story presents a classic time-travel theme; a causality violation, which is the fancy term (I think) for what happens if you go back in time and shoot yourself or a direct ancestor--thereby making your own existence impossible. Powers takes an interesting angle on the problem; drawing from Einstein and following recent scientific speculation he simply adds a dimension to our current understanding.
But perhaps the best aspect of this story is its treatment of the question of free will--can we ever make up for poor choices? Ends justify the means? Is it ever possible to remove someone from the world completely? Do private choices have public effects? If you could go back and talk to your younger self and know that bad choices will have a terrible effect on a future you is it wise to try?
Having just finished this book, I'm still sorting out the ideas presented, but regardless--it was well written and I look forward to reading more of Mr. Powers work.
My pet peeve with mysteries is that an author is often either so cryptic that you never really figure out what was going on or presents a story so transparent that you have it figured out half way through. Powers succeeds at bringing the reader forward at just the right pace and at building a solid and satisfying moral conclusion that makes you think after you have finished the story.
What happens when the past can be changed? Should the past be tampered with? This story presents a classic time-travel theme; a causality violation, which is the fancy term (I think) for what happens if you go back in time and shoot yourself or a direct ancestor--thereby making your own existence impossible. Powers takes an interesting angle on the problem; drawing from Einstein and following recent scientific speculation he simply adds a dimension to our current understanding.
But perhaps the best aspect of this story is its treatment of the question of free will--can we ever make up for poor choices? Ends justify the means? Is it ever possible to remove someone from the world completely? Do private choices have public effects? If you could go back and talk to your younger self and know that bad choices will have a terrible effect on a future you is it wise to try?
Having just finished this book, I'm still sorting out the ideas presented, but regardless--it was well written and I look forward to reading more of Mr. Powers work.
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God May Not Play Dice With the Universe
5. September 2006
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But in Three Days to Never, men will try. (Modest spoilers here.)
It is near lunacy, or at least a sure road to regret, to attempt to review a Tim Powers book too soon after reading it, but here goes anyway. Fortunately, with Amazon, one doesn't need a time machine -- just the edit button. I cannot quite say why I liked Declare and Last Call much more than I liked Earthquake Weather or Expiration Date. Nor can I exactly put my finger on why I thought Three Days is more like the latter and not like the former. I suppose it's the superficial similarities to the last two installments of the Last Call Trilogy -- freaky astral projecting weirdos with crazy artifacts and devices chasing the good guys through SoCal to capture the essence of long-dead luminaries.
Digging more deeply, I think what I loved about Declare was that Powers perfectly balanced his story with his attempt to fit historical events into a new puzzle. And similarly, the supernatural elements seemed in Declare (as in Last Call) to compliment the rest of the goings on, not overwhelm them. I think I think that neither is true in Three Days. The attempt to bend the story around the true details of Einstein's existence (and some unexplained Charlie Chaplin events) seems almost forced and not natural. And the supernatural crazies become overwhelming by the end.
I believe that those with a good working knowledge of Shakespear's the Tempest or the biographical details of Einstein's life will appreciate this novel a bit more than I did. Then again, I knew very little about the Wasteland or Kim Philby's life, but still adored, respectively, Last Call and Declare. The book also suffers from one of the problems that I think no time-travel novel can avoid. It either will generally have holes that don't make logical sense, or it will make logical sense but spend considerable effort on side-points explaining why the time travel scenarios are consistent with the framework the novel has constructed. Three Days suffers a bit from the latter problem.
So with some of that negativity out of the way, there are things in this book to celebrate. There are, as in most of Powers' works, moments of devastating revelation. If you're used to the rhythms of his novels and his compulsion to force you into active reading, you will not be disappointed. (As an aside, there is a nice moment in this book where one of the characters who herself must rely on the eyes of others to see has thoughts about what makes a good reader and what makes a bad -- it is an interesting little insight into Powers' story-telling style.) And his masterful manipulation of familiar themes is at times genius, as is his dialogue. There is one running gag throughout the book that is virtually worth the price of admission itself -- when two members of one of the weird factions have conversations over the radio, they give each other signals (code words based on popular music or children's cereals) when to turn the channel to avoid detection. Much hilarity ensues.
In any event, Powers fans will not be diappointed and likely will spend at least one morning with bloodshot eyes. Enjoy!
It is near lunacy, or at least a sure road to regret, to attempt to review a Tim Powers book too soon after reading it, but here goes anyway. Fortunately, with Amazon, one doesn't need a time machine -- just the edit button. I cannot quite say why I liked Declare and Last Call much more than I liked Earthquake Weather or Expiration Date. Nor can I exactly put my finger on why I thought Three Days is more like the latter and not like the former. I suppose it's the superficial similarities to the last two installments of the Last Call Trilogy -- freaky astral projecting weirdos with crazy artifacts and devices chasing the good guys through SoCal to capture the essence of long-dead luminaries.
Digging more deeply, I think what I loved about Declare was that Powers perfectly balanced his story with his attempt to fit historical events into a new puzzle. And similarly, the supernatural elements seemed in Declare (as in Last Call) to compliment the rest of the goings on, not overwhelm them. I think I think that neither is true in Three Days. The attempt to bend the story around the true details of Einstein's existence (and some unexplained Charlie Chaplin events) seems almost forced and not natural. And the supernatural crazies become overwhelming by the end.
I believe that those with a good working knowledge of Shakespear's the Tempest or the biographical details of Einstein's life will appreciate this novel a bit more than I did. Then again, I knew very little about the Wasteland or Kim Philby's life, but still adored, respectively, Last Call and Declare. The book also suffers from one of the problems that I think no time-travel novel can avoid. It either will generally have holes that don't make logical sense, or it will make logical sense but spend considerable effort on side-points explaining why the time travel scenarios are consistent with the framework the novel has constructed. Three Days suffers a bit from the latter problem.
So with some of that negativity out of the way, there are things in this book to celebrate. There are, as in most of Powers' works, moments of devastating revelation. If you're used to the rhythms of his novels and his compulsion to force you into active reading, you will not be disappointed. (As an aside, there is a nice moment in this book where one of the characters who herself must rely on the eyes of others to see has thoughts about what makes a good reader and what makes a bad -- it is an interesting little insight into Powers' story-telling style.) And his masterful manipulation of familiar themes is at times genius, as is his dialogue. There is one running gag throughout the book that is virtually worth the price of admission itself -- when two members of one of the weird factions have conversations over the radio, they give each other signals (code words based on popular music or children's cereals) when to turn the channel to avoid detection. Much hilarity ensues.
In any event, Powers fans will not be diappointed and likely will spend at least one morning with bloodshot eyes. Enjoy!
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One of Powers' best books
24. November 2006
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Tim Powers is a master of the 'Secret History' fantasy, a form where famous people have motivations, and famous events occur for reasons, having to do with magic and the occult instead of the normal, every-day reasons that we know of and believe. He researches these people and events meticulously, so that his secret history meshes seamlessly with actual events. Therefore, when Powers succeeds in snatching you into his "What-If" premise, our real history is never violated, and it is simply loads of great fun. His last five books have been set in the 20th Century. I found the first three to be sterile reads. A tsunami of magical events and effects, to be sure, but very cold stuff. With 'Declare' and even more so with this book 'Three Days To Never', Mr. Powers has weaved mysticism in with his magic, giving a sense of the religious to it all that is flatly missinig from all his prior books. In 'Three Days To Never', I think Mr. Powers also gives us main characters - teenager Daphne and her father, Frank - that we can finally CARE about deeply, and that is the topper.
I'm recommending both books highly, 'Declare' and 'Three Days To Never'. The magic in both books is not a tired old hashing of all his prior magical constructs, and that is greatly refreshing. There's new magic here in this time travel novel. What happens when you travel through time and arrive at your destination via a quantum mechanics-probability wave mechanism? It's VERY startling, even horrifying. Mr. Powers continues to develop concepts around 'ghosts' that can be disturbing and perhaps even terrifying.
The motivations of many characters develop throughout the book. I was quite often surprised! Surprised in ways that made sense for each character.
The secret history conceit of 'Three Days To Never' is primarily concerned with Albert Einstein. We all know about his brilliant discoveries concerning space and time, and quantum mechanics. In our normal history, Mr. Einstein burned out in the early 1920's and did not produce much of note thereafter. The conceit here is: What if he didn't burn out? What if he then made bold, stunning, later discoveries, but they were so dangerous and frightening that he hid them? And only now, in our modern day, has the mystery of these discoveries come to light. The protagonists, Daphne and Frank, have very compelling reasons for needing to solve the mystery; and there are other factions with very intense interest in wanting to solve the mystery themselves, and gain what fruit may be gained from the solution. It's a great thriller, a great ride.
I'm recommending both books highly, 'Declare' and 'Three Days To Never'. The magic in both books is not a tired old hashing of all his prior magical constructs, and that is greatly refreshing. There's new magic here in this time travel novel. What happens when you travel through time and arrive at your destination via a quantum mechanics-probability wave mechanism? It's VERY startling, even horrifying. Mr. Powers continues to develop concepts around 'ghosts' that can be disturbing and perhaps even terrifying.
The motivations of many characters develop throughout the book. I was quite often surprised! Surprised in ways that made sense for each character.
The secret history conceit of 'Three Days To Never' is primarily concerned with Albert Einstein. We all know about his brilliant discoveries concerning space and time, and quantum mechanics. In our normal history, Mr. Einstein burned out in the early 1920's and did not produce much of note thereafter. The conceit here is: What if he didn't burn out? What if he then made bold, stunning, later discoveries, but they were so dangerous and frightening that he hid them? And only now, in our modern day, has the mystery of these discoveries come to light. The protagonists, Daphne and Frank, have very compelling reasons for needing to solve the mystery; and there are other factions with very intense interest in wanting to solve the mystery themselves, and gain what fruit may be gained from the solution. It's a great thriller, a great ride.
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