Title: Good idea poorly executed
Product review: The premise of the book -- scientists trying to contact the near past in order to divert environmental disaster -- is interesting. The premise and the alternate version of the present might have even been fascinating except that the ideas are overwhelmed by much too much text, unnecessary plot developments, incredibly boring detail, and characters you don't much care about. Of all the many, many books I've read in my life, I have purposely not finished only a very few -- but this was one of them. I was just too disinterested to continue reading.
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