{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.”<\/p>\n
A Bridge of Years<\/strong> by Robert Charles Wilson, published in 1991<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n It’s about people who are time travellers and people who find out about the time travellers. It’s about soldiers with cybernetic armor.<\/p>\n It’s about a man from 1989 living in 1962.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n