Undone

by James Patrick Kelly

A space-faring woman and her intelligent ship travel through many dangers, often needing to rely on their ship's ability to "undo" the last few minutes of time by invoking a special form of backwards time travel. Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Year's Best Science Fiction Pick

36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2003

About the author

James Patrick Kelly (please, call him Jim) has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. His short novel Burn won the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award in 2007. He has won the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Award twice: in 1996, for his novelette “Think Like A Dinosaur” and in 2000, for his novelette, “Ten to the Sixteenth to One.” His fiction has been translated into eighteen languages. He produces two podcasts: James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod on Audible and the Free Reads Podcast (Yes, it’s free). His most recent publishing venture is the ezine James Patrick Kelly’s Strangeways. His website is www.jimkelly.net.

Reviews

[Bradley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very readable version of within-lifetime time travel, playing around with a alien-ish consciousness exploring the weirdness of human-normal life -- especially love, family.

I enjoyed it quite a bit but I won't say it was all that groundbreaking. I DID enjoy the characters.