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“This is such a clever book. Our protagonist, Preble Jefferson, can see five seconds into the future. More specifically, he can see five seconds into an array of alternate futures, and if there’s an outcome he wants he can start with that and work backwards – for example, if he wants to open a safe, he can work backwards to the present where he uses the right code. In a gunfight, he can find the future where he doesn’t die – in the next five seconds, that is. So he’s both a formidable force in some ways, and importantly limited…It also won the CIBA Mark Twain Grand Prize Winner for Best Satire, and was shortlisted for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Thriller & Suspense, and the Eric Hoffer Award – notably, none of those are sci fi awards. This is delighting readers across genres.” Read more...
