The Chaos Function

This is a good time travel thriller with a strong suspense element. It's a butterfly-effect novel, and Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder is the obvious inspiration, and I'd guess Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever was a thematic influence as well. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," and "Any suffic......more

I won't summarize this novel, others have done it before me. I'll only give my impressions. This is not the first time travel or apocalyptic novel I read, far from it. We can say that I have some bases on which to build my expectations. This novel is more a road book (literary equivalent of a "road m......more

Temporal Incursion: An act of altering the timeline. The Butterfly Effect: A minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere. Imagine if you had a machine that could do this. The problem is what will the alteration to the timeline after the incursion look like? Better or......more

Entertaining & Forgettable While this book moved at a decent pace & was entertaining, it lacked enough depth for me to really care about it one way or the other once I was finished. First, it was totally unbelievable that the main character, Olivia was so in love with Brian that she would potentially......more