Whip-smart thirteen-year-old Julian Costello Proctor-better known as Jules-has an eidetic memory. For as long as he can remember, he has remembered everything. “My mind is always on,” he explains. But when an unexpected death throws his life into turmoil, Jules begins to experience something strange. For the first time, there are holes in his memory. But that’s not the strangest part. What’s really weird isn’t what he’s forgotten; it’s what he remembers. Memories of another life, not his own. And not from some distant past. No, these memories belong to a man who’s alive right now. With bravery, ingenuity, and quirky good humor, Jules devises a theory to explain this baffling phenomenon. While tracking down the identity of his mysterious doppelg�nger, he finds himself enmeshed in the hopes and dreams of a stranger . . . and caught in the coils of a madman’s deadly plot.
Nice fling but not fulfiling I’m a huge, huge fan. This was nice … But not more than that. It didn’t bend my mind like nearly all of his other works. So if you have a few hours to spend thinking about time and life and whatnot, go for it. But there are better things to read by Hamilton, that’s for sure.
Another imaginative story from my favorite author There is a reason Peter Hamilton is the best sci-fi author in the UK, and my all-time favorite. He imagines stories others cannot and has a clean, no redundant, no fluff writing style. He keeps you glued with ideas until you nearly drop from lack of sleep, staying up to the wee hours trying to finish the book, or in this case, a short novella. This work is a philosophical time bender, of a young teen with an eidetic memory, just trying to get through the crap teen years, but experiences past…
A great novella with wide appeal A Window Into Time is one of those rare things from British Science Fiction author Peter F Hamilton – a novella. Known for his galaxy spanning far-future Space Opera novels and series, A Window Into Time is almost the exact opposite – a present day look at the life of a teenager. Of course, that’s not to say there isn’t his trademark SF twist in the mix – there is – but rather that this is a story unlike anything else Hamilton has written.Â