Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Future I Can Believe In

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

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I seem to be having a bit of a #scifisummer and it has been so fun and refreshing, even when it’s tense and complicated. Sometimes the chaos goblin who runs my brain at the library is on the right track, and I’ve had some excellent grabs recently. Rocketing straight to the top of the list (get it? rockets?? science fiction???? you’re welcome), is this bonkers beauty that I finished this morning and cannot stop thinking about. In short, we’re about 50,000 years in the future, […]

What would you do to change your past

The future of another timeline by Annalee Newitz

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The future of another timeline is a time travel book. It is also a book about the ongoing struggle for equal rights. It starts in 1992, from the perspective of a time traveller who has returned to an important moment in her past, and an opportunity to change something about her past. The book is told in alternate chapters between Tess- the traveler, and Beth – the girl for whom 1992 is her current life. There are 5 Machines, that enable time travel, provided certain […]

“Nothing is inevitable, and you always have to go back farther than you expect.”

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

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CBRBingo: They/She/He – Non-binary author On their podcast Our Opinions are Correct, Annalee Newitz describes themself as a “science journalist who writes science fiction”. I love the podcast and the novels of their co-host and life partner Charlie Jane Anderson, so I thought it was time to check out Newitz’s work for the They/She/He bingo square. Timetravelling, feminist science fiction is most definitely right up my alley.  The world of this novel is a sidestep from our own, much the same, but clearly on a different timeline.  […]

“I remember a world where abortion was legal in my country. I hope you do too.”

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

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Beth and Tess live in a world where time travel is a reality. Several machines were discovered around the world, and have been there for thousands of years, but no one knows how they came to be. Time travel is regulated, but it can be abused. Beth is in 1992, a teenager who finds herself in a violent situation where a friend’s boyfriend is murdered, and the group gets a taste for it. Tess is in 2022, a traveler, studying the timeline but also trying […]

“Beneath the modern political rhetoric and academic theories of history, I had an ancient hope that was indistinguishable from Spiritualism. If my edit took, maybe the good I’d done would outweigh the evil.”

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

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I started this book first thing on New Year’s Day, made it about thirty pages in, and then didn’t pick it up again until Sunday morning on the 5th. I don’t know if it was feeling too heavy or what, but I needed to be in the right headspace for it. (It was probably the men’s right’s activists that did it, followed closely by a disturbing murder.) Then I basically binge-read the whole book yesterday morning. To sum the book up badly (and I will […]

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

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I thought about the rating for this one for awhile, and a solid three stars doesn’t quite capture it. It’s better than that, but has some issues that I found…not frustrating….or off-putting exactly, but definitely distracting. So we are in the future, 2144 to be exact, and the patenting of technology, medical research, information, and biotech is one of the driving features of our society. We follow a few different storylines here, both parallel and intersecting. We have Jack Chen, an underground medical researcher/gene coder […]



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