![]() ![]() He finds himself on an earth that has changed so utterly that it’s almost an alien planet. ![]() It works so well that instead of sending him a few hundred years into the future Ellis arrives several thousand years after the moment he left. When Ellis cranks up his machine it reads like the Mythbusters built the TARDIS out of milk crates and hope. While Michael Sullivan makes it clear in the forward that his vision of time travel is made out of lies, it fits the story well and isn’t so implausible that it hurts the suspension of disbelief. A family tragedy has already all but destroyed his marriage, and Ellis is a man looking at short miserable future… except he’s gone and built a time machine in his garage. Hollow World is the story of Ellis, a man in his late fifties who learns he has less than a year to live. Of late the genre has been very dark, speaking more to our fears than our hopes, so it was great to see a (mostly) hopeful vision of the future in Hollow World. Not only does it squint into the future and try to imagine what will happen, but it also looks at what we hope and fear will come to pass. Science fiction is an amazing thing at its heart. ![]()
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