Especially assuming that it has been or will be reviewed in F&SF's Film section , has anybody here seen the The Time Traveler's Wife Movie - or , read the book ?
I did the former .
The book author's new book is flopping , incidentally , apparently...
I suppose the story (or TTTW) could be seen as interesting as " a female'romance-chick flick' take upon an SF concept" or maybe no??
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Got the same name as a story, too, from one of the mags a few years back.
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I thought the book was wonderful. Stretched on rather too long towards the end, but for the most part, very well done.
I wouldn't really describe it as "a chick-flick take on an SF concept." Maybe, perhaps, the other way around. For starters, the book is enormously morbid and disjointed - not chick-flicky in any way. It does focus on romance, but it goes very deeply into a convoluted relationship. It's powerfully written, and it does a great job of presenting the concept in a clear and intuitive manner, but doing impressive and complicated things with it; and it keeps the reader firmly hooked (at least for the first two thirds).
To a large extent, I felt that TTTW gave the old time-travel trop a heck of a run for its money - we've seen no lack of variations on the theme before, but this one is so detailed, rich, and powerful that it pretty much blows your socks off - a great combination of the inherent coolness of time-travel, and emotional, human drama.
I've heard poor reviews of the movie. I could imagine it translating very well to the screen, but I can just as easily imagine it being done very badly, and I'm hardly optimistic when it comes to Hollywood, particularly in the field of movie adaptations.
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"The Time Traveler's Wife" was a story in the July/August 2005 issue of Analog. I'm wondering if it has any relation to this book or movie.
Information about Robert Brown, F&SF, July 1962 is scrambled when search engined but the datum was turned up by Google in response to "The Time Traveler's Wife F&SF"; the datum was followed by a row of dots and all subsequent searching turned up the same phenomenon at several points, a row of dots after the same datum. What, did Brown just say "The time traveler's wife" in this issue? Or did Avram Davidson say "The time traveler" and "Robert Brown" and "wife" all in the same editorial? I can't Google the issue and I wonder what mention was made of a time traveler's wife in that issue of the magazine.
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