- Paperback: 339 pages
- Publisher: Roc; US First Edition Paperback edition (May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451457854
- ISBN-13: 978-0451457851
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 9.9 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,904,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A curious and wonderful story, 18 Oct 2000
By Hank Schwartz "banjo & SciFi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Broken Time (Paperback)
This strange story about the growing up of Siggy Lindquist is curiously enthralling.It takes place in a universe so crowded that anybody of less than stellar abilities and accomplishments is relegated to brutal menial labor on distant outposts of "civilization".
It is at one such outpost that Siggy meets the main protagonists of this tale. Beware that some of the details of her time at the Institute for the Criminally Insane are extremely grotesque and distressing.
Despite my reservations about these vivid descriptions, I found the plot and its characters to be totally involving and fascinating. I liked Siggy immensely and was pleased and touched by her ability to cope and to grow beyond the circumstances that often threatened her. I found the humans, the "speedies" and the rest of the other-than-human beings to be very well realized and so intriguing that they still pop up in my memory and welcome further contemplation.
A good story, good actors well drawn, strange twists and unusual space and time concepts, an exciting and gratifying ending.
I rarely feel that a book is worth 5 stars, but this one got to me and wouldn't let go.
Highly recommended.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Serial Killers, Speedy Aliens, and an Indomitable Heroine, 26 Mar 2001
By E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Broken Time (Paperback)
I was up until 2 A.M. this morning because I had started reading "Broken Time" after dinner and couldn't put the book down until I finished it. The heroine, Siggy is your basic B-average high school graduate who needs to go off-world to find a job (jobs are very scarce in this future universe), and ends up working as a janitor at the Institute for the Criminally Insane. Siggy grew up in the midst of a galactic cold war that occasionally turned hot, and the technologically superior Enemy is still trying to decide whether or not to exterminate the human race once and for all. It doesn't help our side one bit, when a serial killer who thinks he's the Antichrist is turned loose in alien territory.All of Maggy Thomas's characters came to life for me, even the alien 'Speedies' and the serial killers in 'Monster Row'. Her heroine, Siggy is open, friendly, and smart, and teaches ballroom dancing just for fun. She is neither passive nor timid, in spite of the fact that she doesn't know what she really wants to do for a living (how many of us did at her age?). She doesn't back down from murderers, sadistic guards, or even angry aliens. Notwithstanding her lowly status, Siggy never gives up on her determination to find the Lost Boy, teach the Speedies how to dance, and make the Galaxy a safer place for humanity. What she does flows naturally from who she is.
"Broken Time" has a strong plot that bubbles along with enough future-tech gobble-de-gook to keep us geekish readers happy trying to deconstruct the theory behind 'time pockets' and artificially speeded-up humans. And there are enough loose threads at its end to make me hope for a sequel.
Maggy, don't disappoint me. I want to read more about the indomitable Siggy!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Broken Time, 16 May 2000
By "rnfrankie" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Broken Time (Paperback)
This book was one that I did not want to stop reading, but had to go to work. It is such an excellent story. The heroine is believable ....the story is an original "mind bending" Sci Fi.Seldom can one just pick a book by an unknown author and truly enjoy the story. I consider myself most fortunate to be one of the first to have read her. This book is highly recommended.
I am extremely impatient for her next story....I want it available NOW!
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