Patrick Edwards
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Echo Cycle is the second novel by Patrick Edwards, a well-traveled British writer. It is one of the many pleasing time travel stories we have had lately. In this one, by 2070, Brexit has proved to be a predictable disaster. After Yosemite erupts, people are leaving a dystopian United States for places north and south. As the European Union negotiates a new relationship with a Britain that has become a tyranny that exploits its poor, a British functionary in Rome falls through a time slip and winds up in Nero’s Rome. After that, the plot gets complicated, and the cross-cultural comparisons are subtler than one might expect. There are several well-rounded characters. I could do without the rather bizarre narrative structure, but this is a novel that paid off in surprising ways. It is also the first post-Brexit dystopia I have read. Something tells me, there will be more opportunities.… (mehr)