In the City of Time, Gwendolyn Clare
In the City of Time, Gwendolyn Clare
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In the City of Time

Author: Gwendolyn Clare

Narrator: Rachel Leblang

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/25/2023


Synopsis

Three science prodigies go on a time-traveling adventure to save the Earth—if they don't accidentally destroy it first.

In 1891, Willa Marconi's life falls apart when her mentor at the University of Bologna unexpectedly dies. She loses her laboratory access and her stipend, but she refuses to let anyone take her research away. While testing her prototype radio equipment, she detects a mysterious signal and pursues its origin.

In 2034, a cataclysmic event has rendered the Earth uninhabitable, and humankind survives by living inside of artificial worlds. Riley would do anything for Jaideep, who lost his parents in the collapse of the Bay Area pocket universe—and anything includes building a time machine so they can travel back to the nineteenth century, prevent the destabilization of the planet, and rewrite history.

But the experiment goes wrong, accidentally pulling Willa forward in time and stranding the three of them in a strange, seemingly abandoned city. Now they've got a glitchy time machine, a scary android time cop hot on their trail, and some tangled temporal mechanics to unravel. Can they save the Earth when the Continuity Agency is dead-set on preserving the current timeline?

About Gwendolyn Clare

Gwendolyn Clare teaches college biology in central Pennsylvania, where she lives with too many cats and never enough books. Her short stories can be found in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her debut novel was Ink, Iron, and Glass.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on December 30, 2022

In the City of Time by Gwendolyn Clare, with its plot about three geeky young scientists and time travel, should be a novel I adore because I love it when stories get all nerdy and scientific. Unfortunately, I do not love when authors make up entirely new laws of science to explain their science fic......more

Goodreads review by Reading is my Escape on September 17, 2023

The tragedy of being a time agent is the past never leaves you alone. - first line I liked the diverse cast of characters, especially Saudade (an android) and Willa (a woman plucked out of the 1890s). Riley and Jaideep have a great relationship, and I love their back-and-forth. Riley and Jaideep are g......more

Goodreads review by alanna on November 23, 2022

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC! ”’At this point, I’m probably one of the world’s foremost expert on temporal theory,’ Riley said— not a brag, just a statement of fact.” In the City of Time follows three prodigies on a mission to save the Earth, hoping not to destroy it themselves. The rest of my thou......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on November 25, 2022

Did you guys know that this was a companion series to another of the author's series? True story, I hadn't a clue! The author explains this at the start, and she was definitely not lying when she said you could read this series all on its own, because I did, and I definitely enjoyed it! Here's the th......more

Goodreads review by Larissa on November 26, 2022

I will be honest I am 100% lost with this book. I will admit that I have never read another book in this series, so this maybe my own fault. I feel like the plot jumps everywhere, and characters are sometimes hard to keep track of. Now I understand that this is a time travel book so jumping everywhe......more