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"A Scientific Romance"-Ronald Wright
Posted: 17 Aug 2008, 19:10
by orion70
Hi all ! newbie here
Just wanted to say hi, and start a discussion on a wonderful book i just finished, A Scientific Romance..........I can not recommend it highly enough. Anyone else read it?
Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 11:11
by Walktherain
I've never even heard of it. What's it about?
Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 18:29
by orion70
The author is Ronald Wright. The book's comments compare it to Orwell, Burgess and HG Wells if i recall. It was actually published back in 1998 but I only recently came upon it in the bookstores. I couldn't put it down ! Beautifully and brilliantly written.
If I can post a spoiler that anyone could find via Google search:
"it is 1999, and David Lambert, jilted lover and museum curator, is about to discover the startling news of the return of H. G. Wells's time machine to London. Motivated by a host of unanswered questions and innate curiosity, he propels himself deep into the next millenium. As he sets foot in the luxuriant but menacing new landscape, he soon begins to explore the ruins of his life, a labyrinth of erotic obsession and remorse involving his old friend Bird, and Anita -- the beautiful, eccentric Egyptologist they both loved, mysteriously dead at thirty-two.
A Scientific Romance is a book of surpassing creativity and intelligence, as evocative as it is cautionary."
AND:
"In Ronald Wright’s A Scientific Romance (Knopf), an archaeologist suffering from a terminal illness discovers H. G. Wells’s time machine when it arrives sans pilot in a London warehouse in the year 1999. He gets it working again and sets out into the future hoping to find a cure. Wright deduces an entirely believable description of a possible future from the few clues his archaeologist uncovers while excavating the ruins of an uninhabited London and UK turned into tropical jungle. This book is a great read: it kept me awake all night. "
Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 22:16
by Walktherain
Since I love HG Wells' The Time Machine, it looks like I'm going to have to read this book. It sounds sweet. I'm a scifi junkie though.
Re: "A Scientific Romance"-Ronald Wright
Posted: 09 Sep 2011, 06:48
by GabrielleRay
orion70 wrote:Hi all ! newbie here
Just wanted to say hi, and start a discussion on a wonderful book i just finished, A Scientific Romance..........I can not recommend it highly enough. Anyone else read it?
I know this book, it's a good one. It spends a lot of time just exploring its post-global warmed world, which I enjoyed.