Monday, November 05, 2001
The Year of the Quiet Sun
by Wilson Tucker
What a ride this one was! This is a novel that was highly regarded in it's day (1970). However it's a future dystopia -- a tale in which features a future time that is very bleak. In this case, members of a time travel project in 1978 travel forward in time first to 1980 then to the turn of the century. Since I have lived through all of those time periods, I can tell you that Mr. Tucker didn't get anything predicted right. For some reason he figured that the attitudes of the late sixties counter culture towards nudity and marijuana would catch on while those on racial equality and the war in Vietnam wouldn't. But even as I was laughing at the details I was engrossed in the story and characters, trying to puzzle out what was happening and eagerly seeing what happened next. And the end, I totally missed a little detail which was hinted at and was surprised when it was revealed. This is definitely one of the great time travel novels that have been written, and hence is going on my shelf.
LibraryThing link
What a ride this one was! This is a novel that was highly regarded in it's day (1970). However it's a future dystopia -- a tale in which features a future time that is very bleak. In this case, members of a time travel project in 1978 travel forward in time first to 1980 then to the turn of the century. Since I have lived through all of those time periods, I can tell you that Mr. Tucker didn't get anything predicted right. For some reason he figured that the attitudes of the late sixties counter culture towards nudity and marijuana would catch on while those on racial equality and the war in Vietnam wouldn't. But even as I was laughing at the details I was engrossed in the story and characters, trying to puzzle out what was happening and eagerly seeing what happened next. And the end, I totally missed a little detail which was hinted at and was surprised when it was revealed. This is definitely one of the great time travel novels that have been written, and hence is going on my shelf.
LibraryThing link
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