RanaldClouston<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FinishedReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinishedReading</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EmilyStJohnMandel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmilyStJohnMandel</span></a> 's story of a temporal anomaly that muddles together characters from the 20th, 21st, and 23rd century, and the 24th century researchers trying to unravel the event. After reading a few books recently by authors working hard to write pyrotechnic prose, Mandel's more minimal and exact, but still interesting, style was a breath of fresh air for me, even if the story feels a little lightweight in the end. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p>