David Ambrose (1) (1943–)

Niels Bohr said: If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Look at the sky and Imagine you have a genetically identical clone in another universe. Is he happier than you? More successful or more miserable than you? How many universe exist? What if one of your clone comes to your world. is it possible or you are just a schizophrenic man!?
This is a charming, psychological and philosophical science fiction story based on parallel worlds theory and It challenged my imagination.… (mehr)

In 1980, an assistant in the Department of Defense, Warren Lasky, is assigned by his mysterious chief Richard Tideman to visit the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz commanded by Capt. Matthew Yelland as an observer of the routines. Lasky learns that Commander Air Group (CAG) Richard T. Owens has a great knowledge of history. Out of the blue, the vessel faces a weird storm and they find they have traveled back in time to the eve of the attack of Pearl Harbor on 06 December 1941. When the two Japanese Zeros attack the motorboat of Senator Samuel Chapman, the crew of the Nimitz rescues the senator and his assistant Laurel Scott. But Lasky soon learns the senator had disappeared on that day and Capt. Matthew Yelland is planning to attack the Japanese. Will these actions create a time paradox? (fonte: Imdb)… (mehr)

One should never look a gift horse in the mouth, apparently. Of course, that didn't work out so well for the Trojans when the gift horse was, well, a horse. If they'd had a peek in its mouth before bedtime they might have noticed it was full of Greek soldiers and not, as they assumed, sweets.

In my case the gift horse was a free e-book from a popular chain of coffee shops. The consequences of me not investigating a little before reading it weren't quite as fatal as in the Trojan's case, but they weren't especially enjoyable either.

The e-book in question was David Ambrose's 1993 novel The Man Who Turned Into Himself. It's essentially a Harlan Coben thriller, except the peculiar events surrounding the protagonist aren't down to some shadowy conspiracy, but instead down to quantum mechanics. This quantum mechanical aspect of the story, although handled clumsily at times, was the only saving grace of the story for me. That and the shortness of the novel allowed me to overlook the total unlikeability of the protagonist and the occasionally choppy writing. It's an interesting take on the established genre, but interesting takes only get you so far.… (mehr)