The Future of Another Timeline
{5/5} “Watching women demure to men in public and suffer the consequences of their abuse in private, it was hard to believe we were at a transition point in history when women’s growing power could unsettle a long-established social order. But change is never linear or obvious. Often progress only becomes detectable when it inspires a desperate backlash.”
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz, published in 2019
Tess officially belongs to a scholarly organization who has permission to travel to the past to observe. But unofficially her group edits the timeline in small ways in an attempt to make it better. Then she finds out that one of her group has been murdered — edited from the timeline.
This storyline alternates with one from 1992 in which Beth is a teenager who is into punk rock and is present when a boy is killed.
It’s about women working to create more equality for women — fighting against men working to create the opposite. It’s about what happens when someone in your family is mentally ill and lies about everything.
My new favourite word is “chronopolitan.”
The 1st 4 paragraphs will grab you. It’s an astonishing story, one that I will be thinking about a lot.
This is the 1st book I’ve read by Newitz.