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Timescape: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – August 1, 1992

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Winner of the 1980 Nebula Award, Timescape has since become a classic of the science fiction genre, combining hard science, bold speculation, and human drama—a challenging and triumphant tale told by a master storyteller.

1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet.

1962. JFK is still president, rock 'n' roll is king, and the Vietnam War hardly merits front-page news. A young assistant researcher at a California university, Gordon Bernstein, notices strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment. Against all odds, facing ridicule and opposition, Bernstein begins to uncover the incredible truth . . . a truth that will change his life and alter history . . . the truth behind time itself.

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Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It's 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story's perspective toggles between time lines, physicists, and their communities. Timescape presents the subculture and world of scientists in microcosm: the lab, the loves, the grappling for grants, the pressures from university and government, the rewards and trials of relationships with spouses, the pressures of the scientific race, and the thrill of discovery.

Timescape merits the tag "hard science fiction"; it tells the story of scientists, and readers can't help but learn something about tachyons and physics while reading it. Yet much of the story is about humanity: the men John Renfrew and Gordon Bernstein and their relationships--between husband and wife, lover and lover, English working class and upper class, professor and student, and academician and colleagues.

Winner of the Nebula Award in 1980 and the John W. Clark Award in 1981, Timescape offers readers a great yarn, in terms of both humanity and science.

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1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet.

1962. JFK is still president, rock 'n' roll is king, and the Vietnam War hardly merits front-page news. A young assistant researcher at a California university, Gordon Bernstein, notices strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment. Against all odds, facing ridicule and opposition, Bernstein begins to uncover the incredible truth... a truth that will change his life and alter history... the truth behind time itself.

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CHAPTER ONE

SPRING, 1998

Remember to smile a lot, John Renfrew thought moodily. People seemed to like that. They never wondered why you kept on smiling, no matter what was said. It was a kind of general sign of good will, he supposed, one of the tricks he could never master.

“Daddy, look—”

“Damn, watch out!” Renfrew cried. “Get that paper out of my porridge, will you? Marjorie, why are the bloody dogs in the kitchen while we’re having breakfast?”

Three figures in suspended animation stared at him. Marjorie, turning from the stove with a spatula in her hand. Nicky, raising a spoon to a mouth which formed an O of surprise. Johnny beside him, holding out a school paper, his face beginning to fall. Renfrew knew what was going through his wife’s mind. John must be really upset. He never gets angry.

Right, he didn’t. It was another luxury they couldn’t afford.

The still photograph unfroze. Marjorie moved abruptly, shooing the yelping dogs out the back door. Nicky bowed her head to study her cooked cereal. Then Marjorie led Johnny back to his place at the table. Renfrew took a long, rustling breath and bit into his toast.

“Don’t bother Daddy today, Johnny. He’s got a very important meeting this morning.”

A meek nod. “I’m sorry, Daddy.”

Daddy. They all called him Daddy. Not Pop, as Renfrew’s father had wanted to be called. That was a name for fathers with rough hands, who worked with caps on.

Renfrew looked moodily round the table. Sometimes he felt out of place here, in his own kitchen. That was his son sitting there in a Perse school uniform blazer, speaking in that clear upper-class voice. Renfrew remembered the confusing mixture of contempt and envy he had felt towards such boys when he was Johnny’s age. At times he would glance casually at Johnny and the memory of those times would come back. Renfrew would brace himself for that familiar well-bred indifference in his son’s face—and be moved to find admiration there instead.

“I’m the one should be sorry, lad. I didn’t mean to shout at you like that. It’s as your mother said, I’m a bit bothered today. So what’s this paper you wanted to show me, eh?”

“Well, they’re having this competition for the best paper—” Johnny began shyly “—on how school kids can help clean up the environment and everything and save energy and things. I wanted you to see it before I give it in.”

Renfrew bit his lip. “I haven’t got time today, Johnny. When does it have to be in? I’ll try and read it through tonight if I can. Okay?”

“Okay. Thanks, Daddy. I’ll leave it here. I know you’re doing frightfully important work. The English master said so.”

“Oh, did he? What did he say?”

“Well, actually …” The boy hesitated. “He said the scientists got us into this beastly mess in the first place and they’re the only ones who can get us out of it now, if anyone can.”

“He’s not the first one to say that, Johnny. That’s a truism.”

“Truism? What’s a truism, Daddy?”

“My form mistress says just the opposite,” Nicky came in suddenly. “She says the scientists have caused enough trouble already. She says God is the only one who can get us out of it and He probably won’t.”

“Oh, lor’, another prophet of doom. Well, I suppose that’s better than the primmies and their back-to-the-stone-age rubbish. Except that the prophets of doom stay around and depress us all.”

“Miss Crenshaw says the primmies won’t escape God’s judgment either, however far they run,” Nicky said definitively.

“Marjorie, what’s going on in that school? I don’t want her filling Nicky’s head with ideas like that. The woman sounds unbalanced. Speak to the headmistress about her.”

“I doubt that it would do much good,” Marjorie replied equably. “There are far more ‘prophets of doom,’ as you call them, around than anyone else these days.”

“Miss Crenshaw says we should all just pray,” Nicky went on obstinately. “Miss Crenshaw says it’s a judgment. And probably the end of the world.”

“Well, that’s just silly, dear,” Marjorie said. “Where would we be if we all just sat about and prayed? You have to get on with things. Speaking of which, you children had better get a move on or you’ll be late to school.”

“Miss Crenshaw says, ‘Consider the lilies of the field,’ ” Nicky muttered as she left the room.

“Well, I’m no bloody lily,” Renfrew said, pushing back his chair and rising, “so I’d better go off and toil for another day.”

“Leaving me to spin?” Marjorie smiled. “It’s the only way, isn’t it? Here’s your lunch. No meat again this week, but I got a bit of cheese at the farm and I pulled some early carrots. I think we may have some potatoes this year. You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” She reached up and kissed him. “I do hope the interview goes well.”

“Thanks, luv.” He felt the old familiar tightening begin. He had to get that funding. He’d put vast sums of time and thought into this project. He must have the equipment. It had to be tried.

Renfrew left the house and mounted his bicycle. Already he was sloughing off the family man, his thoughts reaching ahead to the lab, the day’s instructions to the technicians, the coming interview with Peterson.

He pumped along, leaving Grantchester and skirting round Cambridge. It had rained during the night. A slight mist hung low over the ploughed fields, softening the light. Drops clung to the new green leaves on the trees. Moisture glittered on the carpet of bluebells covering the ground in the clearings. The lane here ran alongside a little stream lined by low alder bushes and nettles. On the surface of the stream he could see ripples forming as the bugs called water boatmen jerked themselves along on their oarlike legs. Kingcups were blooming in a sheet of gold along the banks and big soft furry catkins were coming out on the willows. It was a fresh April morning, the kind he had loved as a boy in Yorkshire, watching the mist rise off the moors in the pale morning sun and the hares scurry off at his approach. The lane he was cycling along had sunk deep over the years and his head was nearly level with the tree roots on either side. A smell of damp earth and rain-washed grass came to him, mixed with an acrid tang of coal smoke.

A man and a woman eyed him blankly as he pedaled by. They leaned idly against a sagging wood fence. Renfrew grimaced. Each month more squatters drifted into the area, thinking Cambridge was a rich town. Off to the right was the shambles of an old farmhouse. In the last week the yawning black windows had been blocked in with newspaper, boards, and rags. It was surprising squatters hadn’t smelled out the place before.

The last bit of cycling, nipping through the outskirts of Cambridge, was the worst. The streets were difficult to negotiate, with cars parked every which way, abandoned. There had been a national program to recycle them, but all Renfrew had seen come of it was a lot of talk on television. He threaded among the cars, which sat there like eyeless, legless beetles, stripped of all their removable parts. Students were living in some of them. Drowsy faces turned to watch him wobble by.

In front of the Cavendish he locked his bicycle into the rack. One car in the lot, he noticed. Surely that bugger Peterson wasn’t here this early? It wasn’t yet 8:30. He trotted up the steps and across the entrance hall.

To Renfrew the present complex of three buildings was anonymous. The original Cav, where Rutherford had discovered the nucleus, was an old brick building in the center of Cambridge, a museum. From the Madingley Road two hundred meters away this place could easily be taken for an insurance center or a factory or any business place. When it had opened in the early ‘70s the “new Cav” had been immaculate, with harmonized color schemes, carpets in the library, and well-stocked shelves. Now the corridors were poorly lit and many laboratories yawned empty, stripped of equipment. Renfrew made his way to his own lab in the Mott building.

“Good morning, Dr. Renfrew.”

“Oh, morning, Jason. Has anyone been in?”

“Well, George came in to start the roughing pumps, but—”

“No, no, I mean a visitor. I’m expecting a fellow from London. Peterson’s his name.”

“Oh, no. No one like that. You want me to get started here, then?”

“Yes, go ahead. How’s the apparatus?”

“Fairly good. The vacuum is coming down. We’re at ten microns now. We’ve got a fresh charge of liquid nitrogen and we’ve checked out the electronics. Looks as if one of the amplifiers is going. We’re doing some calibrations and the equipment should be checked out in about an hour.”

“Okay. Look here, Jason, this fellow Peterson is coming down from the World Council. He’s considering increasing funding. We’ll have a run for him, put the apparatus through its paces in a few hours. Try to look lively and spruce the place up a bit, will you?”

“Right. I’ll get her running.”

Renfrew went down the catwalk to the floor of the laboratory and stepped nimbly over the wires and cables. The room was of bare concrete, outfitted with old-fashioned electrical connections and rather newer cables strewn through the aisles of apparatus. Renfrew greeted each of the technicians as he came to them, asked questions about the running of the ion focusers, and gave his instructions. He knew this warren of equipment well now, had painfully gathered the pieces and designed it himself. The liquid nitrogen went tick and burbled in its flask. Powered units hummed in spots where there was a slight voltage mismatch. The oscilloscopes’ green faces danced and rippled with smooth yellow curves. He felt at home.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spectra; Reissue edition (August 1, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 499 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553297090
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553297096
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.21 x 1.32 x 6.78 inches

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Gregory Benford, author of top-selling novels, including Jupiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, Eater, and Timescape, is that unusual creative combination of scientist scholar and talented artist; his stories capture readers – hearts and minds – with imaginative leaps into the future of science and of us.

A University of California faculty member since 1971, Benford has conducted research in plasma turbulence theory and experiment, and in astrophysics. His published scientific articles include well over a hundred papers in fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation.

Often called hard science fiction, Benford's stories take physics into inspired realms. What would happen if cryonics worked and people, frozen, were awoken 50 years in the future? What might we encounter in other dimensions? How about sending messages across time? And finding aliens in our midst? The questions that physics and scientists ask, Benford's imagination explores.

With the re-release of some of his earlier works and the new release of current stories and novels, Benford takes the lead in creating science fiction that intrigues and amuses us while also pushing us to think.

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NoBigWoop

Deserved award winner

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016

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A deserved award winner, this is a great read (and I don't read much sci fi). Good character development, good plot, believable use of (unproven) physics, excellent portrayals of different personality types working in and around physics (theoretical and empirical), subtly presented twist at the end (which I missed first time through, but is all explained in a separate afterword). Characters are multi-faceted and grow through the story. Descriptions of places put you there -- Cambridge UK & La Jolla especially, with accurate street names and geographical locations. Bit of a Brit wring style (e.g. use of words and phrases) is fun. Quality of writing perhaps shy of the best of fiction overall, but certainly at the top of the sci fi genre. Benford knows his tech AND can write well.

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John T. Ferro

Tachyon communications with the past!

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If you had a serious problem, well if the world had a serious problem, wouldn't you want to do something to help? John Renfrew wanted to and he found a way that no one else considered possible - he send a message to the past asking for help! AND HE GOT IT! Timescape is a fictional story about a scientific curiosity dealing with a strange elemental particle called a tachyon. Tachyons appear to break the speed limit defined by Albert Einstein when he stated "nothing can travel faster than the speed of light." Anything that could travel faster than that would be able to arrive somewhere before it began its trip. Put these two thoughts together and you have the premise for Timescape. Its a mixture of sadness, hope, desperation, and reward told in an imaginative narrative that is easy to read and scientifically enlightening at the same time.

When I bought this story, I was just looking for something dealing with time travel. What an unexpected joy it was when I found Timescape. It is difficult to describe the journey that this story takes the reader on without giving away too much of the plot but consider how you would react if your world as you know it is dying and you are the only hope for undoing the harm that humanity had done to its ecosystem. Now, add to this the mental anguish of not knowing how you can help but knowing that you are the ONLY one with any chance of helping. The lead, John Renfrew, takes us on a journey of discovery, quite by accident, that shows the tantalizing glimmer of hope nested in a laboratory mockup that never seems to function as it is supposed to. (Shades of Bell scientists and their perplexing problem with noise in their new antenna and discovering the echos of the Big Bang.)

This book is well worth the read.

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Jack Cohen

A great sci fi novel, but........

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2023

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I feel like I've just read two novels. The science fiction part is excellent, speculative but grounded in hard science, and the author clearly knows his way around the world of research in academia. But he tries to make this more than a sci fi story by fleshing out, at great length, characters and circumstances, which is interesting but ultimately distracting. And this is not helped at all by occasional racism, frequent sex and sexism, and an irritating overdose of ethnic stereotyping. Great novels, or even very good ones, just don't do this. So, a mixed review. Excellent science fiction, but not a great book.

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J.

Just about a perfect sci-fi novel!

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2017

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Deep, thought provoking hard science fiction married with three dimensional, lifelike characters. The writing is overall quite good, with some truly beautiful and poetic moments. I've been through plenty of sci-fi, and this book is probably as close to perfect as the genre can get. Astoundingly well rounded - stimulates the mind and emotions in equal measure. One of those books you begin to miss as soon as you finish it. A book that can change you. I had never heard of it, until I stumbled randomly upon it on an internet list. It's tragic that this book isn't up there among the absolute classics! It really should be.

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Deborah A. Roberts

Challenging

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020

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This book challenges the reader in many ways, complex relationships, a twisty plot with a fork in the road, and science that exceeds the familiar. It accurately depicts the grad school environment with elitist professors and junior faculty struggling to achieve tenure. Altogether interesting.

Only negative is that since it was written in 1980, the “future” in the book is 1998, and that future now appears dated.

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Richard Careaga

Requires two qualities in the reader that not everyone may have

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2023

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An interest in the physics and philosophy of time and causation, the professed methods of science, its social realities and the tensions between theory and observations that eventually break out in a new theory is the set of reader qualities needed to enjoy this work.

A tolerance for what seems a 1980 parody of 1960 gender relations projected with little change into the 90s is the reader quality needed to tolerate it.

It's hard to know if the author's intent about the portrayal of gender relations in the early1960s is meant to be an attempt at social realism. He is of an age to have adult memories of the time, and it was admittedly a benighted epoch. So, I'm inclined to cut him a break for that part of the story. I'd like to think that by 1980, I would have been able to imagine some more progress would have occurred by the late 1990 when the other half of the story is set. But I'm probably fooling myself into thinking I was much more enlightened than I probably was.

The cringy social order assumptions are hard to stomach and it doesn't help that the principal protagonists are not very likable people. Take the fiction out of the SciFi and what's left is not much in the way of a novels and the plot movement doesn't redeem this as an entertainment either.

What's left, though, the meditation on time and paradox, makes a meaty dish with just enough help from the fiction side to provide some traction.

When dealing with a far-off future, in his Galaxy Center series, Benford doesn't have the same gender difficulties.

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Rosana

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Reviewed in Brazil on May 6, 2023

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Já li outros livros do autor, e nem gostei de alguns, mas este é a medida perfeita de ficção possível temperada com ciência real, e com temática cada dia mais atual e preocupante. Recomendo muuuuuito mesmo!

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Jotunheim

Concept et developpement fastidieux et obsolète

Reviewed in France on December 18, 2022

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Ce livre avait eu le prix Hugo en 1980, il me semble. Il a très mal vieilli comparativement aux grands classiques comme ceux d'Asimov, Dick, Herbert qui semblent intemporels eux.
Dans Timescape, la description interminable des dîners est une souffrance, les théories (big crunch) sont aujourd'hui invalides et les bonnes idées sont malheureusement noyées dans une longue description de personnage peu attachants sans compter les relatif mauvais goûts et les housewives (femmes au foyer). Bref, à éviter.

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M. C. Hodgkins

A good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2021

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I had this book bought for me many years ago and enjoyed it. Bought this for a friend who likes Sci Fi and he tells me he is also enjoying reading it.

dan onischuk

good sci-fi read

Reviewed in Canada on September 5, 2019

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well written - distopian future due to man stupidity - wait is there a solution ? read on...

Grant Cairns

Interesting, realistic but somewhat dispassionate

Reviewed in Australia on October 30, 2018

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This book has a very believable feel to it. The science fiction aspect is particularly strong, as one would expect from an author who is a real accomplished physicist. The two main characters are physicists and their behaviors are very realistic, as is the depiction of their milieux, and their interactions with superiors and administrators etc. The over-aching ideas are also stimulating and thought-provoking. Overall, the book is highly original and remarkably well constructed. I especially liked the conclusion. It is true that the development is quite slow. I personally found it engaging, but I can also believe that some readers might find it a little tiresome. This is not helped by the characters, many of whom are quite disagreeable; I couldn’t get emotionally invested in any of them. Indeed, there is a detached, dispassionate aspect to the book, which left me wondering about the author’s ultimate sympathies.

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