Review: The Psychology of Time Travel
Time travel? Women scientists? Animals not harmed in the making of the book? The description of "the perfect book for Chris" should have been a fabulous read. Instead, Kate Mascarenhas ' The Psychology of Time Travel was surprisingly dull, with undeveloped characters and confusing storylines. First of all, there was no sense of time or place. Four women discover time travel in 1967. They could have discovered it at a farmhouse in Idaho or the French countryside for all the attention the setting received. In 1967, women had no standing in the world of science — and yet these women are not only embraced by the scientific community, but also have the power to privatize time travel to their financial benefit. This book introduced new time-travel rules; after Avengers: Endgame , I am almost numb to the tangled ideas and brutal liberties people take with this fictional practice. It's like sparkly vampires: if you write the fiction, you invent a world in wh...