The Future of Another Timeline

This isn't a book for those who love subtlety and delicate allusion. It's brash and lurid, but hey these are brash and lurid times, and it is a loud and necessary voice in today's climate. It's a passionate and angry novel, and if I'd read it when I was fifteen it would probably have changed my life.

There's an interesting and original set up for time travel, but I felt that some of the stuff about repercussions of changing history got a bit handwavey and had the sense the author was hurrying us past some of it in case we looked a bit too closely. The main thrust of the book isn't the science though, it's all about societal change and how that happens / can be made to happen. The punk rock revolution of riot grrrl rhymes nicely with the story of nineteenth century music hall upsetting social mores, and demonstrates how resistance is necessary through the ages.