Scientific Romance

"Wright's cunningly fashioned story enables his romance to express a powerful nostalgia for explorers of the past without the treacle of nostalgia, as well as a disdain for the postindustrial age without seeming Luddite and without the grating friction of bitterness. Its Victorian version of science fiction manages effects that are rich and Gothic yet somehow innocent of irony. We may ascribe these effects to self-conscious literary echoes, tongue-in-cheek post-modernism or the desire to tell an old-fashioned adventure story: the novel works on all levels. It seldom creaks or groans beneath the weight of its devices, and its flair for description can be positively Dickensian. The result is a fresh take on an old formula--the dystopian postapocalypse novel--and a profound meditation on the nature of time."Wright, Ronald is the author of 'Scientific Romance' with ISBN 9780312199999 and ISBN 0312199996.