![]() ![]() ![]() But here are the settings: 1960s Oxford, the late 22nd century, and Anterwold (the temporal location of which I best not divulged for fear of spoilers). Pears keeps most of the technical details around how Angela’s machinery works vague, but I think that’s for the best. Arcadia’s universe is very much a block-time one, wherein, as Angela explains, all moments are happening simultaneously: time is simply a limiting illusion we humans have to put up with. It all starts … actually, that doesn’t really work for recapping the plot of a book about time travel. Iain Pears takes what could have been a good, converging story of multiple characters and times and turns it into a transcendent love letter to literature and storytelling itself. Arcadia is one of the best time travel stories I’ve read in a long while-more than that, it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a year already burgeoning with good reads. I’m talking about the ones that sneak up on you. And I’m not talking about the obvious classics, or the much-hyped new releases that also deliver on what they promise. Every so often, you read a novel that knocks it out of the park. ![]()
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