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An interesting and somewhat engaging book that was unsatisfying. A young girl is given a mysterious bracelet by an old woman who vanishes immediately. She learns that she can use the bracelet to travel to other times and other timelines as multiple universes are created by the decisions people make. She spends her life traveling throughout time and space but not having anyone with whom she can share her life. In the afterward the author explains that the first and last chapters were written at a writers’ workshop. Then about half the intervening chapters were created to make a novella. Then, in order to create a full-blown novel, the other chapters were written. That’s how the book reads, almost like a collection of short stories about the same main character. Many chapters come out of nowhere and don’t really lay the groundwork for what comes next. Perhaps this was intentional as this is what the woman’s life is like. I was disappointed and not inclined to read more by this author.


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Here There Everywhere Chris Roberson 9781591023319 Books Reviews

Chris Roberson is part of a certain cabal of science fiction authors that allegedly haunt Central Texas, plotting all manner of mischief and nefarious deeds, or so I am told. I mean, Austin's a comparatively small town, and I'm regularly running into the likes of Kinky Friedman, Ernest Hemingway, and Honore de Balzac, and don't think I haven't resorted to fisticuffs to settle certain sensitive affairs, but I'm pretty certain that I've never encounterd Mr. Roberson and his ilk. But I digress.

This present volume is a repackaging of, and expansion upon, "Any Time At All", the previous collection of the escapades of Roxanne Bonaventure, whose tales have been under development for several years. As a young girl, Roxanne comes into possession of a strange bracelet that allows her to travel through time and space, giving her access to all types of variant Earths both past and future, although she soon discovers that she can never change her native timeline's past. (As with most time travel fiction, considering the physics and implications and rules of rattling across time/space is headache-inducing here, so best not to think too deeply upon the mechanics, although there is one particular precept here that is critical to the novel's primary plot point.)

Naturally, she embarks upon amusing escapades throughout history, including a mandatory brush with the Nazis, because if you can go to the past, battling these evildoers is pretty much de rigeur. She also pops back to Victorian London to assist one Sandford Blank (a fictional melange of Sherlock Holmes and Sexton Blake), a character who will be featured on his own in one of the prolific Mr. Roberson's forthcoming novels.

It should be noted that the author credits several influences, among them Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (a postulation that many of the Victorian and Pulp Era heroes are all related), in emulation of which Mr. Roberson has created a whole clan of Bonaventures who've had rollicking adventures of their own in separate novels. He also gives a nod to Jess Nevins' comprehensive if daunting "Encylopedia of Fantastic Victoriana", which is definitely worth picking up for fans of that genre, or followers of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentleman.

I also feel compelled to mention that Mr. Roberson is the grand poobah of MonkeyBrain Books, a genre publisher with some excellent titles.

"Here, There & Everywhere" is episodic in nature and doesn't necessarily break any new ground in the time travel genre, but I'm a fan of cross-pollination with historical figures and other literary characters, and so I give it higher marks than I might otherwise. Also, the cover art by John Picacio is great. (He has done most, if not all, of the covers for the works of the aforementioned cabal of authors.)

Oh, fans of Doctor Who will probably find an extra dimension in this novel.
It's just what I was looking for . Very pleased. Shipped very quickly. It's a great book, definitely recommend it to others. Thank you!
I haven't been blown away by this book. In fact, I am halfway through right now and put it down to read another book. I'll probably come back and finish it, but it feels a little "children's bookish" to me and hasn't been really unusual or compelling.

One of the many traps that time-travel books can fall into is the "infinite universes" trap where every possible action a person makes creates a new universe to accomodate that new timestream. Eventually, this takes all meaning out of any action that the character makes because it doesn't matter what action you take if you have taken every other possible action in a parallel universe. And it becomes tedious and boring.

I prefer books that dwell more on the story and the person, rather than the philosophy of time travel and its paradoxes and ways around them.

This seems like an amateurish effort. It isn't terrible, it just isn't compelling.
I loved this book. Thought this was the best Sci-Fi novel I have ever read about time travel. The book throughout is excellent and the very ending puts it completely over the top wrapping up everything in the book. I will warn you that most other people I've recommended this book liked it a lot but didn't love it as much as I did-not sure why. May have been because the main character is female or they just weren't impressed with how the time traveling was handled. But again, as far as time traveling, best Sci-Fi novel I have ever read.
The concept here isn't particularly new, as the author acknowledges with references to both "By His Bootstraps" and "The Man Who Folded Himself." But Roberson manages to find something rather new to say. Not only does he knock most time-travel SF into a cocked hat, by way of modern physics, but his take on the nature of time and the universe is particularly satisfying.

Roxanne Bonaventure is unique in the cosmos, the sole possessor of a 5-dimensional magic bracelet that allows her to move as she will in space, time and probability. The story follows her from the age of 11, when she is granted this "blessing", through the long years of her life. In the vignettes that comprise the novel, we see her learn and change, observing humanity in all its choices, until she finally finds out that what she really wants is the one thing she cannot have.

But sometimes you get what you need.
An interesting and somewhat engaging book that was unsatisfying. A young girl is given a mysterious bracelet by an old woman who vanishes immediately. She learns that she can use the bracelet to travel to other times and other timelines as multiple universes are created by the decisions people make. She spends her life traveling throughout time and space but not having anyone with whom she can share her life. In the afterward the author explains that the first and last chapters were written at a writers’ workshop. Then about half the intervening chapters were created to make a novella. Then, in order to create a full-blown novel, the other chapters were written. That’s how the book reads, almost like a collection of short stories about the same main character. Many chapters come out of nowhere and don’t really lay the groundwork for what comes next. Perhaps this was intentional as this is what the woman’s life is like. I was disappointed and not inclined to read more by this author.