A Bridge of Years
{4.5/5} “He had come here from a world of disappointment and miscalculation; in its place he had discovered a pocket universe of optimists and cynical romantics… They believed in a future the couldn’t define, only sense — used words like ‘justice’ and ‘beauty,’ words that betrayed their own fundamental optimism. They believed without shame in the possibility of love and in the power of truth.”
A Bridge of Years by Robert Charles Wilson, published in 1991
After getting a divorce and losing his job Tom moves back to his hometown. He buys a house that he likes, but something or someone is there with him. Whenever he leaves anything dirty overnight it’s cleaned by morning. When he tries to record them with a video camera, he finds something at 3:30 am — they turned off the lights. But he can hear them whispering.
It’s about people who are time travellers and people who find out about the time travellers. It’s about soldiers with cybernetic armor.
It’s about a man from 1989 living in 1962.
I had previously read all of Wilson’s later novels and now I’ve read all the early ones. If you’re a fan of Wilson’s stories, you’ll want to read this one.
I’ve read all 19 of Wilson’s fiction works, 18 novels and 1 collection. I previously reviewed The Divide.