Bob Shaw (1) (1931–1996)

A re-read of an old favourite, now in ebook format. It holds up surprisingly well. It’s the story of a man who finds a way of moving to a parallel timeline.

In his own timeline, his wife was raped and murdered in a park after he allows her to walk home alone after an argument. Some years later, obsessed with guilt, he finds a way to go back in time and shoot the rapist before he assaults his wife. But then he’s drawn back to his own timeline. It takes him more years still to learn how to cross over and stay in the timeline in which she is still alive. Shaw cleverly studies what might happen when the man tries to take over the life still inhabited by his alternate self.… (lisätietoja)

El "vidrio lento" es un cristal que absorbe poco a poco la luz de los sucesos que ocurren delante de él, los cuales resultan visibles meses o años después.
A partir de esta idea, Bob Shaw construye una excelente y a la vez original novela. La profética visión de lo que podría ser un invento de estas características y la problemática social de su uso, desde el crimen casi perfecto hasta la verificación por parte de la justicia al cabo de cinco años- hacen de esta novela una obra maestra de ciencia ficción en el mas puro sentido de la palabra.… (lisätietoja)