The Lost Time Accidents
A Novel

I am so relieved to be done with this book. If I told you that the problem with this story is an unbelievable central premise, you'd likely assume I was referring to the myriad time travel machinations. Not so. I'm a sucker for a time travel plot, and while not perfect, there was a studied, if sligh......more

The cover illustration nails a nifty visual of Wray’s latest fiction--that time is not linear, but, rather, is rotary or circular, curved or spherical. Where did this come from, and why does it matter? It starts with Waldemar “Waldy” Tolliver, and the opening of this novel will likely go down as one......more

The Lost Time Accidents is not a flawless epic masterpiece (say, Bolano's 2666), but it is an incredibly creative, penetrating, fun, well-written, thought-provoking 3-generational saga that defies genres or synopsis. I didn't love this (4/5), and the execution didn't always work terribly well (4......more

From Flavorwire's "50 Most Anticipated Books of 2016" list: This big, multi-genre epic from the author of Lowboy and Canaan’s Tongue considers the damage wrought by the 20th century alongside questions about the nature of time. At more than 500 pages, it’s a gamble, but one that sounds like it could......more

1903 was an interesting year for temporal physics. In Geneva, an obscure patent clerk was already working on something he called "relativity" (though he was not to have his own "annus mirabilis" until 1905). And in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia, Ottokar Gottfriedens Toula may or may not have written down t......more