A very good show for a first novel: A young prodigy at Cambridge uses her discovery of bodiless time travel to enter the mind of a young American soldier at the invasion of Guam during World War II. The story is told in parallel with the classical Greek myth of the Labours of Hercules, and also draws on the native folklore of Guam. George pulls you into the story quickly and treats his characters with sensitivity. I especially respect this kind of work because it requires real research to pull off. Getting things right, historically, psychologically, and culturally, has not been a big goal in the big SF publishing houses, lately, and this is an encouraging exception. I found only a few choices of words that I would quibble with.
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