Time travel! Jack the Ripper! Automatons! What's not to love?!? Well, as it turns out, almost everything.I know everyone else here is raving about it, but I could barely stomach The Map of Time; it took every ounce of stick-to-it-iveness I could muster to get through this convoluted, interminable literary maze. WHERE, I ask you, was the EDITOR in this hot mess? There is the kernal of a potentially good story here, had about 2/3 of the fat been excised. The only way it could have been more byzant...

Interesting literature game postmodernism-style: unusual mixture of Victorian steampunk on the verge of sci-fi. But author plays with the readers expectations so vaguely that you hardly notice sci-fi parts till the very end. But as in the most literature experiments this one sometimes has too much of everything: Jack the Reaper and Herbert Welles meet on the same pages along with Terminator-like apocalypse, parallel universes and time travelling.
Can't say that it's bad but often very confusing.

„Картата на времето“ е много готина приключенска история! Тази книга на Феликс Палма приятно ми напомни за „Петата купа“ на Дан Симънс, тъй като и в двете има за основен персонаж писател, а пък читателите неусетно, но напълно се потапяме във вълнуващите времена, в които е живял и творил. Тук става въпрос за големия Хърбърт Уелс, чийто живот е не единствената, но много важна част от сюжета... Фантастичните елементи в романа по-скоро остават на заден план, докато се увличаме най-вече от сладкодумн...

Роман, разположен удобно във Викторианска Англия и с главен герой писателят Х. Дж. Уелс!

Страхотно замислено, добре изпълнено и може би съвсем малко поразтеглено като история.

Определено си струва да се прочете!

Ще препрочета пак и "Машината на времето", минали са години откакто го направих за последен път.

Artworks by Michael Michera:

Rollicking Good Fun!
Until I was several chapters into this book I was beginning to wonder if I wanted to continue. At times I groaned while reading, sometimes smiled, and often stopped to ponder certain paragraphs. It was a story of many things; imaginative, different, strange, but yet, soon became compelling enough to finish. When I finally read the last page, I felt I had been thoroughly entertained and pleased to have read such a creative and unique book.

Update: 2a leitura em Agosto 2021Dez anos após a primeira leitura, posso afirmar que este livro continua no top dos meus livros favoritos de sempre!Apesar de bastante descritivo em algumas partes, as descrições são muito visuais, muito cinematográficas e não nos custa nada entrar nesta viagem. Três histórias, cada uma com os seus próprios personagens fantasticos, e a ligar tudo, o escritor H. G. Wells e o seu romance A Máquina do Tempo. Wells é a figura histórica (entre várias que surgem ao long...

I hated it. I hated the cliched, overwrought, terrible writing, I hated the conceit of the omniscient narrator/author who breaks in to speak directly the reader, I hated the characters. None of the characters are sympathetic or even interesting. The cast is divided into unlikable liars, and the pathetic, unrealistically stupid people who believe them. The only exception is the character of HG Wells, whom the author uses to smugly whine about how hard it is to write fantasy/sci-fi. It's insuffera...

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The less said about this book the better. Do you enjoy magic tricks even though it's all sleight of hand? Can you simply enjoy the construction of a novel? I loved every moment I spent with this new and talented author. A little bit of The Prestige, some Neil Gaiman, completely original. I'm not even sure where to put this title. Fantasy? Fiction? Science Fiction? Steampunk? It's all of these. One of the best, and one of my favorites, of the year. Beautifully written.

I was so excited to get this book - the back flap suggests a Jasper Ffordian adventure starring H.G. Wells. However... not so much. This novel is in three parts, only lightly interwoven. One of those threads is H.G. Wells, another is Gilliam Murray and his Trip to the Year 2000. The author has written this as a pastiche of Victorian novels, filled with digressions, overly adjectived, and a tad rambling. Part One is the story of Andrew, an upper-middle class boy who falls in love with a beautiful...