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Title: The weight of the story...
Review: Beyond The Time Machine is a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Sad to say, while you can tell a lot of time and energy was put into the story, it has two flaws.The first is the background. Most of the time, when an author creates a world, a setting for his story, maybe 10% of that is used in the story. Like an iceberg much of it is invisible, just under the surface, supporting the characters and plot. Yet, in this novel, it is all in the open, one big data dump. The iceberg is in the foreground, crushing the characters and the slowing the story down.Also, the author loves using his future terms, when he could just continue to use normal English. Techno-babble rules the story - even more so than many Star Trek or Star Wars novels. The result is a book that is almost unreadable.I would suggest you read, instead,The Time ShipsandEpilogue: Time Machine Chronicles.
