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The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the Internet dating site where she first met her husband. However, she has a persistent, strange sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; and each night she has disquieting dreams that may or may not be related to her husband Philip's pet project. Philip's decade-long dedication to the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you do not call a time machine ) has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or imagines . . .

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Good, but not amazing (3.5 stars) submitted by Bakalm on July 6, 2020, 12:35am I wish I could say I loved this book. I thought it was fascinating, with some of the most-accurate reflections of near-future culture I've seen outside of the technology field. The plot was good, if a bit slow at first--but the main characters seemed straight out of a "literary" book, with the Aloof Husband (who's obviously cheating), the Sad Alcoholic Wife, the Tragic Backstory driving them apart, the Supportive Friend, the Other Woman... It's a shame, because some of the side characters who were briefly fleshed out were far more interesting, but the focus characters were mainly unpleasant.