Doctor Chronos by Othello Gooden Jr.
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Contemporary
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by AstilbeTime is not in our side but is for one… Or is it?
Dr. Sigma Mellis is a young quantum physicist that lives on a Space Station in orbit of the Moon, commonly known as the Lunar Space Station. She believed she had a breakthrough on discovering something revolutionary. Everyone around her believed she could achieve this dream… Making Time Travel a reality-Everyone except her father. Furthermore, his constant negative attitude about her life choices continues to sap her energy.
Sigma is determined to make her old man believe that this dream of hers is attainable. The best revenge is one that proves all haters wrong-but how far is one willing to go in order to reach that goal?
The past doesn’t have to be set in stone.
There aren’t many science fiction stories these days that are written as a series of journal entries from what I’ve found. It’s always a treat to find one that uses this format as it makes me feel like I’m discovering new plot twists right alongside the main character. A single day can be quiet and calm, but it can also be filled with revelations about what is really happening with secondary characters that the protagonist might not know much about yet. May other speculative fiction authors take note of this and bring this sort of storytelling back into vogue.
It would have been helpful to have more details in this tale. I struggled to imagine what was happening in certain scenes because of how little information I had about what the people and setting looked like in them. As much as I would have liked to give this one a higher rating, I needed more from it in order to feel comfortable doing so.
I enjoyed reading about the extrapolations Mr. Gooden made about what could happen if time travel were real. They reached much further into the character’s present lives and backstories than I thought they would, and they made reading later scenes exciting as Sigma realized over and over again that her life had once again changed in ways she never would have predicted it might.
Doctor Chronos was filled with adventure.
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