The Murky Waters of Courttia Newland's A River Called Time
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 geno...
Source: tor.com