This is an interesting story, although I’ll admit to a significant amount of headscratching. It’s a tale told by a woman on a space station at or near or around a white hole – a time-neutral way-station, of sorts (from what I can understand). It concerns a ship called Napoleon, captained by a Day Curtis. It tells of a time paradox whereby Curtis meets a young woman, first when she is aged 16, and again fifteen years later. Except the first meeting in her timeline is in his future, not his past.
I appreciated that Lee doesn’t define many of the terms she uses, but leaves the reader to interpret them. Also, I appreciated the confusion, as I feel it was a device specifically used to develop the atmosphere of the story, which in fact deals with the confusion of time/space/whatever outside the white hole zone.
An interesting read for anyone who likes temporal paradoxes and messing around with time.
Rating: 4/5 stars
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