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3.0 out of 5 stars
Two halves do not make a whole,
This review is from: Sputnik Caledonia (Hardcover)
Two almost but not quite parallel universes pass within hailing distance, with the village of Kenzie, Scotland at the point of closest approach. (Why did they test the Concorde over Scotland? In case it crashes!) One universe is the one we live in. The other is a clone that started to diverge when an accidental drowning in 1860 took a different outcome. This snowballs into huge historical differences a century later. The Nazi invasion of Great Britain succeeded. The Red Army pushed out the Nazis five years later, leaving behind the British Democratic Republic as a Soviet client state. Characters we partly recognize appear in a deformed and diminished way.
For the first couple of hundred pages I thought "Sputnik Caledonia" was shaping up into a true literary science fiction. This happens when physical principles are toyed with but not trashed. No faster than light travel, but maybe a black hole with Mercury-sized mass. Unfortunately the middle two-thirds of the book, where we hang with the homeys in the BDR, takes us to too far in a different, alternative-history direction. It's interesting, even recalls Gravity's Rainbow at times, but it breaks the continuity of the worlds-in-collision plotline for too long. Too much for my short attention span, anyway. There are two good concepts, but they don't fit quite well enough together.
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