A Scientific Romance: A Novel by
Ronald Wright
A True Scientific Romance...
In London at the turn of the 20th century, H. G. Wellss time machine
mysteriously appears--empty--in a squatters flat. Whence did it come, and
for what purpose was it sent? The answers to these questions--though not
to an even greater mystery connected with the machines appearance--are
contained in a letter written by Wells on May 2, 1946, which falls into the
hands of one David Lambert on the eve of the millennium. Lambert, an
industrial archeologist, reads the letter foretelling the arrival of the
machine and, half convinced the whole thing is a hoax, goes to the
address Wells provides, where, at the appointed hour, the time machine
materializes. Thus begins Ronald Wrights fine and fantastical novel A
Scientific Romance. Romance can refer to an affair of the heart; it can
also describe a heroic tale of extraordinary events. In A Scientific
Romance, Wright plays on both possible meanings as he weaves a tragic
story of betrayal and lost love into a larger narrative of time travel.
Lambert, having lost the woman he loved, is reckless enough to test
Wellss machine himself, catapulting 500 years into the future, where he
finds London--indeed, all of England--a deserted, semitropical landscape.
As David explores the future, he also sifts through his own past, creating
in this Möbius strip of time and relationship a chilling cautionary tale about
the limits of science and human ambition.
Personal Review: A Scientific Romance: A Novel by Ronald
Wright
David Lambert, museum curator and lonely man, finds out that H.G.
Wells's novel about a Time Machine was based on a real machine. He
finds the machine and throws himself 500 years into the future. Why?
Well, he has his reasons.
What does he find? Mostly he seems to find pieces of his own past as he
explores the ruins of mankind's future. Yes, ruins. Something went wrong,
very wrong. And now David tries to find out what went wrong as at the
same time he tries to find answers to his own ruined life.
For a first time novel this is a GREAT first. I hope to see more novels from
this author.
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