Timescape

I did not enjoy this book. It's classified as hard science fiction, and yes, it's very hard. The author goes into excruciating detail about tachyons, hypothetical faster-than-light particles, used to communicate across time. The book is generally about the scientists from the future attempting to send messages to scientists from the past to get them to do something to avoid an ecological collapse. But what I felt this book was really about was how scientists and their lives inside and outside the lab. According to this book, it's not usually pleasant. There's in-fighting, jealousy, power struggles, and many problems at home. Despite this book being published in 1980, it felt more like a book out of the golden age of science fiction, with its racism, sexism, and homophobia. These are relatively mild except for the depictions of women which are so 1950's. This book won the Nebula, British SF, and Campbell Awards. It was not nominated for a Hugo.

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