For lovers of history ....Jodi Taylor
Discussion
Thanks for this recommendation, I'm about half way through the first book and it's very good.
I have to say, though, that the basic idea (time travelling historians, history won't let you change things in the past hence avoiding paradoxes) is not that original.
You'll find very similar ideas from Connie Willis with "Doomsday Book", "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and the WWII series "Firewatch", "Blackout" and "All Clear" http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/connie-willis/.
Also, more recently, Neve Maslakovic's "Incident" series http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/neve-maslakovi....
I'd recommend both of these if you enjoy time travel/history stories.
...and if you like your time travel mixed in with all sorts of other weirdness including living inside books, try Jasper Fforde http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/jasper-fforde/
I have to say, though, that the basic idea (time travelling historians, history won't let you change things in the past hence avoiding paradoxes) is not that original.
You'll find very similar ideas from Connie Willis with "Doomsday Book", "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and the WWII series "Firewatch", "Blackout" and "All Clear" http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/connie-willis/.
Also, more recently, Neve Maslakovic's "Incident" series http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/neve-maslakovi....
I'd recommend both of these if you enjoy time travel/history stories.
...and if you like your time travel mixed in with all sorts of other weirdness including living inside books, try Jasper Fforde http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/jasper-fforde/
A "boxed set" of the first three books in Jodi Taylor's "St Mary's" series is currently available for Kindle at 99p, offer valid for the next 3 days:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chronicles-St-Marys-Boxset...
Well worthwile at that price!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chronicles-St-Marys-Boxset...
Well worthwile at that price!
tomw2000 said:
Really enjoying these. Done the first 4 in two weeks 
They get to you like that, don't they! If I had any criticism of these books at all, it would be that the pace never slows down at all, so there's never an easy point to stop reading.
Most books sort-of go:
crisis 1
resolution 1
quiet bit
crisis 2
resolution 2....
whereas these seem to go:
crisis 1
crisis 2
resolution 1
crisis 3
crisis 4
resolution 2...
there's never a quiet bit in between!
I'm actually working through them a second time, and I'm finding that because I know how the crises will be resolved, I can concentrate more on the story and I'm finding there's a lot I don't remember from the first reading.
The pace is brilliant
Its not just the story of the plots its the context she sets them. This is an author who LOVES her history, she is completely and utterly in love with history itself, the series is basically a love poem to the subject of History.
As a lapsed true devotee to the greatest subject in the world, these books are basically like a balm upon my soul. To study history academically I found is to have all the fun and joy sucked out of the subject. Once I finished with it at uni I pretty much ignored the subject for a decade. Ive rediscovered my love of it since turning 30 and been able to indulge myself back into the subject and rather than worrying about how dry and annoying Id find it again, thinking about Uni etc, instead its been like it was when I was younger, its been a joyful reunion. I so get what Taylor is writing about and how she wants to make it leap of the page and make you want to read more about the period she immerses you in.
I may be biased because Im also a HUGE Troy/Mycenai geek And Im an engineer. A book series about Historians and engineers and rogue maniac inventing Professors? Its the greatest series in the world
Its not just the story of the plots its the context she sets them. This is an author who LOVES her history, she is completely and utterly in love with history itself, the series is basically a love poem to the subject of History.
As a lapsed true devotee to the greatest subject in the world, these books are basically like a balm upon my soul. To study history academically I found is to have all the fun and joy sucked out of the subject. Once I finished with it at uni I pretty much ignored the subject for a decade. Ive rediscovered my love of it since turning 30 and been able to indulge myself back into the subject and rather than worrying about how dry and annoying Id find it again, thinking about Uni etc, instead its been like it was when I was younger, its been a joyful reunion. I so get what Taylor is writing about and how she wants to make it leap of the page and make you want to read more about the period she immerses you in.
I may be biased because Im also a HUGE Troy/Mycenai geek
And Im an engineer. A book series about Historians and engineers and rogue maniac inventing Professors? Its the greatest series in the world 
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