But most of the final third of the book was dragged down by the weight of time travel theory interplay between TTT and Nebogipfel until the final chapter when TTT was led back on his originial track to find Weena. I'm a big fan of these themes, and while discussions of time travel take up a lot of space in Time Ships, Baxter only scratches the surface of of his opportunity to address evolution impacted by a multiplicity of histories.Through the first third of the book, I was thinking that Time Ships was a 4-star rating.
Evolutionary themes are of also great importance in his stories. Ultimately, we travel to the origins of the Universe.Baxter's writings are filled with time travel and it's related philosophies and science. From there we jump to a version of the Paleocene era, which ultimately becomes inhabited by a small group of a-bomb survivors who launch humanity down a new evolutionary path. These trips include a journey to TTT's younger self in London which opens a vast exploration of causality and inherent contradictions and supposed impossibilities introduced by time travel.Their journeys include a jaunt into WWI-era London, in which we find the war effort spending significant resources to develop Time Travel into a serious competitive advantage of the Germans. Each of TTT's and Nebogipfel's subsequent trips explores a different thread of history. TTT traveled along one thread in his first trip, and leaped to a different thread his second time. On this new world, TTT meets his Morlock guide, Nebogipfel.While Nebogipfel initially pushes the boundaries of what TTT has come to understand about Morlocks, he ulitmately pushes TTT in his overall understandings of science, the human condition, evolution and time travel.Nebogipfel identifies a "multiplicity of histories", essentially identifying that there exist multiple disconnected but somewhat parallel threads of history.
In this new trip, Earth is not the same as expected, and an evolutionarily different kind of Morlock has emerged from a subterra-bound existence to live on the dark side of a gigantic shell around the sun.
Instead of returning to fix the wrongs of his previous time travel experiences, TTT finds himself in a different future, somehow caused by his initial trip. The Time Traveler (TTT), after getting nothing more than a tepid response to his story of his first trip to the future, rushed headlong back into the future to find and rescue his Eloi friend Weena. Where Wells was crisp, haunting and poignant, Baxter is deep and broad and offers his usual blend of hard core scifi philosophy and science.Time Ships picks up where The Time Machine left off. Stephen Baxter's Time Ships is a sequel to HG Wells' classic The Time Machine.
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