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The Gone World: Tom Sweterlitsch (short review)


It is an excellently written story which will drive you through bone chilling horror!



The novel is said two things: 'Inception meets True Detective' and ‘The Silence of the Lambs meets Interstellar.’ Four well acclaimed stories as tags to draw reader’s attention. It deals with the crime procedure, travel through the deep space (and via it), access to the multiple realities and a female protagonist with a prosthetic leg, determined to save an innocent girl. She investigates a multiple homicide, of an entire family and realizes that the killings are linked to the knowledge of an apocalyptic event approaching nearer and nearer to destroy the earth. She travels in multiple timelines, in the probable future worlds to find the clues and gets enlightened that the every probable world will end up with a same result, a White Hole swallowing human life from the earth.



The concepts will remind you many stories known to you employing ideas of simulation, multi-worlds and time travel. However, writer Tom Sweterlitsch won't bother you forcing to ponder on the deep philosophical questions; instead the narrative is fast-paced and mostly uses elements of crime solving stories. Some novelties, in my opinion lie in the approach to the concept of singularity by making a certain place on earth as a portal (the cover page), through where the multiple timelines are accessible (which gives the feel of a decent horror novel); and protagonist’s realization that how a person can be altogether different depending on a single life defining event. The achievement is, to blend the different elements of three different genres in one story and to make it to look organic, compelling, intelligent and enjoyable!


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