Time's Arrow

Time's Arrow

1992

Ratings8

Average rating3.3

15

This is an odd one, for sure, but interesting. While reading it, because the “protagonist” is a consciousness that lives “backward in time” within a man, is disorienting. I also feel odd, after having read a bit of it, because my brain starts to turn time around as I read, and then when I stop reading, I have to reorient. It's almost like experiments with sight–give somebody special glasses with a mirror setup so that they see everything “upside down,” and pretty quickly the brain will compensate so that you see it “right side up”–take the glasses off, and (luckily!) the opposite happens.

This book is like those special glasses, except regarding time. Pretty cool.

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