Kaliane Bradley's science fiction novel, The Ministry Of Time (#1,264) got a lot of buzz before being published, so I was anxious to read it. The premise is that the unnamed protagonist works for the British government in the near future as a "bridge" - someone assigned to a person from the past brought through a time portal to the present day. The job of the bridge is to ease their subject, known by the year from which they came, into modern life. Our bridge's assignment is a real person - an Arctic explorer lost on a British naval expedition in 1848.
As the novel progresses, she begins to have doubts about the morality of this experiment and her own role in it. Just what will the government do with the knowledge it is gleaning? Is she willing to go along with it?
It's an interesting premise, but I'm not sure how I feel about its execution. But if it gets the reader interested in polar explorations, I guess it has accomplished a worthy purpose. You'll have to read it for yourself.
No comments:
Post a Comment