Robson, Kelly (Science fiction writer): Gods, monsters, and the lucky peach (2018)
232 pages
English language
Published 2018
Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.
This book is too short and the time switching is confusing, but I love that there's talk about money and economy and overall life priorities in this book. No fighting and punching, we're straight into powerplay business proposals. And I like the protagonist's reflexive cynicism.
