Review: Engines Of Survival
ENGINES OF SURVIVAL - Strange Horizons, Issue Dec. 22, 2008 Like a lot of science fiction buffs I’ve been a fan of time travel ever since I first picked up a copy of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. The Morlocks really did it for me and I’ve been hooked ever since. Doctor Who certainly didn’t help things. Doctor Who did a lot of things right. Having said that, time travel, as a plot device, generally sucks. It’s wonky, it doesn’t always make sense and even when it does it’s too often used as a convenient, albeit cheesy, way for writers to write themselves out of a situation they couldn’t otherwise write themselves out of (I’m looking at you Avenger’s: Endgame , Star Trek too - and I say that despite the fact that Star Trek IV is my favorite Star Trek movie, so I’m not completely immune to its charms - I’m just, um, realistic about it I guess). Still sometimes it’s like the writer cops out and says, “well, I can’t think of a way to fix this, so let’s just go back in time and