Karl is coasting along with a Chicago bar he owns, and dwells on his past success in a moderately successful 90s rock band; but when a wormhole opens up in his closet, his life dramatically changes in Mo Daviau's Every Anxious Wave.
Karl and his slacker friend Wayne, naturally, decide to use the wormhole to visit concerts in the past they really want to see, name-checking tons of 80s and 90s bands.
But when Wayne gets stranded in the distant past, and Karl recruits an astrophysicist named Lena to help rescue him, the plot boomerangs in all kinds of new and surprising directions.
Every Anxious Wave feels like what might happen if Nick Hornby took over showrunning Doctor Who. Not for fans of hard science--being in love can trigger time travel, and an inconvenient double somehow evaporates--but enjoyable on every other level. A pretty cool and thought-provoking novel. Recommended.
I listened to a good audiobook version of this novel on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library.
Karl and his slacker friend Wayne, naturally, decide to use the wormhole to visit concerts in the past they really want to see, name-checking tons of 80s and 90s bands.
But when Wayne gets stranded in the distant past, and Karl recruits an astrophysicist named Lena to help rescue him, the plot boomerangs in all kinds of new and surprising directions.
Every Anxious Wave feels like what might happen if Nick Hornby took over showrunning Doctor Who. Not for fans of hard science--being in love can trigger time travel, and an inconvenient double somehow evaporates--but enjoyable on every other level. A pretty cool and thought-provoking novel. Recommended.
I listened to a good audiobook version of this novel on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library.
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