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Time Ghost
In 2030, the city of Ottawa is covered by a dome to protect its citizens from widespread pollution. Only a few spots of real wilderness are left in the world. Sara and her brother, Karl, are reluctantly traveling with their grandmother to the North Pole to see the natural world and to fight a last environmental crusade. Not only will the kids have to do without movies, computers, and rollergyms, but when they arrive at the pole, Sara learns that her brother is planning a crazy experiment. If his scheme succeeds, it will involve the terrifying prospect of time travel to the past. Suddenly, everything that has always made Sara feel safe vanishes in this exciting story about the present and the future.
- GenresTime TravelFiction
172 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1995
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Welwyn Wilton Katz
17 books56 followersEveryone has interests. Some people like my father had very few but he knew everything about them and received an OBE for the work he did on one of them during the second world war. Obviously this anecdote shows that having only a few interests isn't a bad thing. However, sometimes I think that the more things people are interested in, the more chance they have of becoming a traditionally published author. For example, here is a vastly incomplete list of my own interests: making jewelry (which I never thought would enter into my writing but is starting to, in the book I'm mentally reconstructing now), Rumi (because his poems are so beautiful and help me step back onto my own spiritual path if I've gone astray for a time), standing stones and dowsing and other new age tidbits as you will see in my book Sun God Moon Witch, playing the transverse flute and recorder and learning the Indian flute and the Japanese (zen) shakuhachi, folklore, legends, mythology [as most readers will see were resources in my books [book:False Face], The Third Magic,Witchery Hill Come Like Shadows), a writerly interest in character growth over certain excellent television series such as NCIS and Bones, yoga (both physical and its philosophical monism - a spiritual path I find fascinating), social issues such as prejudice and the changing of country boundaries because of it as shown in my books False Faceand Come Like Shadows, interspecies communication particularly with whales as in my book Whalesinger, climate change as has already outpaced my imagination as shown in my book Time Ghost, sketching, gorgeously impossible golf courses even though I don't play golf, Stonehenge and other standing stones as well as the math and science of prehistoric peoples, online shopping, murder mystery novels, J.S.Bach's and Mozart's music though mostly I prefer medieval music and some modern songs such as "You" by Fisher (album The Lovely Years),"Japanese Music Box" by Itsuki No Komoriuta (album "Forest" played by George Winston), "The Lady of Shalott" by Loreena McKennitt (album The Vist), "Leonard Cohen Live in London" (double album, all of it), "Someone to Watch Over Me" by Willie Nelson (album Stardust), "Autumn" by George Winston (whole album), "Fragile" by Jorane (The You and the Now), and "Words Can't Go There" by John Kaizan Neptune (album of same name).
Like you I love movies, nature, some TV, and I play bridge and even some video games (Wii, PS2, Nintendo DS: favourites Kingdom Hearts, and P4). Books, of course. We'll find out more about each other in my blog, I'm sure.
Like you I love movies, nature, some TV, and I play bridge and even some video games (Wii, PS2, Nintendo DS: favourites Kingdom Hearts, and P4). Books, of course. We'll find out more about each other in my blog, I'm sure.
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February 14, 2024
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Welwyn Wilton Katz crafts compelling adventures that are all different. I would have relished them in the 1980s and 1990s. I give 3 stars to this 1994 “ecological dystopian” novel, with some story and character construct criticisms.
Cities like Ottawa were domed against pollution. People were so cramped in blocks, reminiscent of “Ready Player One”; only the wealthy had pets and houses. Along with lacking the love of family animals, it was shocking that children in 2044 had not been outside. In Welwyn’s dystopia, her cautionary message works without being a speech. We are only 20 years behind, where I hope our reality is as removed as it was from “Back To The Future II”.
Here is a wake up call from me: these were not theories. Those consequences were clearly human caused. There are no politics about looking with our own eyes to see that chopping trees, taking natural spaces, dumping waste... would decimate Earthlings: animals, plants, air, water, and soil included.
About the year this was published, Gwendolyn Green’s parents could no longer afford their lake lodge: home to majestic loons. Worse, they sold it to a mill. Gwendolyn became a chief justice and at about age 60, urged an oilman to spare the Arctic. She brought her Grandchildren and their friends to the North Pole, to go outdoors and breathe air for the first time.
No one was likeable except Dani, best friend of Granddaughter, Sara. I doubt that Sara, raised on her Grandma’s positive stories, would dread the outdoors. Wouldn’t there be rural homes and visits to those regions? Personality contrasting was heavy-handed. Readers needed no reminders that Sara was usually assertive and that Dani deferred to her.
I loved witnessing Dani’s dream to see a horse and intelligently reasoning out how returning home might work.
Welwyn Wilton Katz crafts compelling adventures that are all different. I would have relished them in the 1980s and 1990s. I give 3 stars to this 1994 “ecological dystopian” novel, with some story and character construct criticisms.
Cities like Ottawa were domed against pollution. People were so cramped in blocks, reminiscent of “Ready Player One”; only the wealthy had pets and houses. Along with lacking the love of family animals, it was shocking that children in 2044 had not been outside. In Welwyn’s dystopia, her cautionary message works without being a speech. We are only 20 years behind, where I hope our reality is as removed as it was from “Back To The Future II”.
Here is a wake up call from me: these were not theories. Those consequences were clearly human caused. There are no politics about looking with our own eyes to see that chopping trees, taking natural spaces, dumping waste... would decimate Earthlings: animals, plants, air, water, and soil included.
About the year this was published, Gwendolyn Green’s parents could no longer afford their lake lodge: home to majestic loons. Worse, they sold it to a mill. Gwendolyn became a chief justice and at about age 60, urged an oilman to spare the Arctic. She brought her Grandchildren and their friends to the North Pole, to go outdoors and breathe air for the first time.
No one was likeable except Dani, best friend of Granddaughter, Sara. I doubt that Sara, raised on her Grandma’s positive stories, would dread the outdoors. Wouldn’t there be rural homes and visits to those regions? Personality contrasting was heavy-handed. Readers needed no reminders that Sara was usually assertive and that Dani deferred to her.
I loved witnessing Dani’s dream to see a horse and intelligently reasoning out how returning home might work.
December 30, 2015
This was my favourite book when I was thirteen.
June 20, 2018
Through this leap into the past Sara learns about her grandmother, gets a glimpse of what the wilderness used to be like. She also gets to hear and see the loon that her grandmother is always talking about.
In terms of tone, the book waffles between melodrama and eerie predictions of environmental collapse at the hands of big business. Although we might not end up with domed cities by 2030, we are on a path where bird migrations and biomes are moving north as the world warms.
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2018/comm...
In terms of tone, the book waffles between melodrama and eerie predictions of environmental collapse at the hands of big business. Although we might not end up with domed cities by 2030, we are on a path where bird migrations and biomes are moving north as the world warms.
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2018/comm...
December 18, 2012
Set in the future when the environment has, predictably, been largely destroyed, this book avoids the trap of becoming just another preachy treatise on what will happen if we don't take care of our planet (not that that isn't important, but I do like to be entertained when I'm reading fiction). It is first and foremost a great time-travel story, with well-developed characters and some new twists on traditional time-travel conventions. It's kind of awesome, actually. Should get more attention that it has; although written in the nineties, it still feels fresh and timely.
February 25, 2023
In 2030, the city of Ottawa is covered by a dome to protect its citizens from widespread pollution. Only a few spots of real wilderness are left in the world. Sara and her brother, Karl, are reluctantly traveling with their grandmother to the North Pole to see the natural world and to fight a last environmental crusade.
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