Wizards of Science eBook Carl Frederick
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In the novel (hard SF despite its title), Paul, an American college physics major studying in England, and his friend Vicki, an English British history major, become caught up in a physics experiment gone spectacularly wrong. The island of England gets swapped into an alternate time line and is replaced with the England of the eleventh century. Action takes place in both an eleventh century England in a twenty first century world, and also in a twenty-first century England in an eleventh century world. Only Paul and Vicki, with the help of Wulf, a scientist from the twenty-second century, can set things right.
The novel's title alludes to Wulf and his descendents, trapped in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Their advanced science and technology seems to be magic and they are thought to be wizards.
Although not not specifically written as such, the novel might be considered YA as four of the five major characters are under twenty years old, two of them well under.
A modified extract of an early part of the novel appeared as a novella in Analog Magazine under the title ' Greenwich Nasty Time'.
Wizards of Science eBook Carl Frederick
I've always liked alternative history and time travel stories, and this one is one of the better ones in that it utilizes real science, instead of the old "then a miracle occurred" approach. It's usually a good read when a scientist writes speculative fiction. This author is among an elite few; I shall now have to pursue some of his other works. Fortunately, he's included a guide for me at the end of the book.Product details
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Wizards of Science eBook Carl Frederick Reviews
Carl Frederick has the ability to ask disturbing questions and then to provide answers in the form of exciting stories. The premise of this book is that observers of quantum events can change the past by their choice of what to observe. The hero of the tale is Paul, a postgraduate physicist working for his Phd, who gets involved with a world changing experiment, intended to investigate the true nature of space-time, which strands him a thousand years in the past. There he meets Wulf, a scientist from his own future who has been inspired to travel back in time by a paper Paul has not yet written. But Wulf has become stranded in the wrong part of the past, where he has developed a theology of science which he teaches by rote to a monastery he founds in Anglo-Saxon Britain. His purpose is to set up a centre of knowledge which can teach Paul the additional theory needed to untangle the mess which his initial experiment has caused to the time-line of the human race.
The pace, excitement and disturbing plausibility of the story reminds me of Fred Hoyles "October the First is Too Late" and in my view Carl Frederick is a worthy successor to Hoyle in this genre of exciting science fiction based in strange ramifications of real theories.
Even if you don't care about the science the story is a real page-turner.
This novel had some interesting time travel ideas to explore, but the story falls far short of the mark. Their method of involvement is too contrived, forced, coincidental, and non-sensical. The worst aspect is aspect is that the characters didn't really do anything that interesting with their great opportunity.
I've always liked alternative history and time travel stories, and this one is one of the better ones in that it utilizes real science, instead of the old "then a miracle occurred" approach. It's usually a good read when a scientist writes speculative fiction. This author is among an elite few; I shall now have to pursue some of his other works. Fortunately, he's included a guide for me at the end of the book.
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