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If the novel’s composition matched the author’s conception, Courttia Newland’s
A River Called Time would constitute a major accomplishment in speculative fiction. Newland creates a radically different Earth, devises a complex world-beyond-the-world of astral projection, and then, in the novel’s second half, sends his overwhelmed protagonist on an odyssey into further worlds.
What might our world look like if humanity were innocent of some of its foundational crimes?
A River Called Time begins and ends in a world “in which the Transatlantic Slave Trade, colonization, and the genocide known as Maafa (great tragedy, awful event) hadn’t ever taken place” and that is therefore liberated from “the race-fixated, identity-based reality we live every day.” Newland provides a timeline at the beginning of the book; there are broad parallels to real-world history, but the world moves more quickly, so that a beneficent Christopher Columbus sails in 1392 and Henry VIII est
The Absolute Book arrives in the United States more than a year after its initial publication with New Zealand’s Victoria University Press. Although Elizabeth Knox’s books have always been critically acclaimed, most of her titles have never escaped the Antipodes. Happily for American readers, a rave review by Dan Kois, a Slate critic briefly resident in New Zealand inspired a bidding war for U.S. rights, and now any American can open
The Absolute Book. As someone who has been looking forward to it since the Slate review, I’m happy to report that the novel was worth the wait.