Borrowed Time

by Alan Hruska

When a computer genius and inventor of a device that may revolutionize the computer industry falls in love with a computer analyst, they unknowingly transgress the time/space restraints of their own world and enter into a parallel existence

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

277 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Alan Hruska is the author of the novels Wrong Man Running, Pardon the Ravens, and It Happened at Two in the Morning, the writer of several plays produced in New York and London, and the writer and director of the films Reunion, The Warrior Class, and, most recently, The Man on Her Mind. A New York native and a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he is a former trial lawyer who was involved in the some of the most significant litigation of the last half of the twentieth century. The Inglorious Arts is his fifth novel.

Reviews

[Nooilforpacifists · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard-science SF time travel-cum romance. Decent plot, but the book piles such prodigious foreboding, one is afraid to turn the page. Might have given it a fourth star, were it not for the clunky technical mumbo-jumbo (you know, the equivalent of ST's "photons") that explained what was, at bottom, "Red Shift" with a woman.

[B. Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

A gem from the back shelves of an out-of-business used bookstore, Borrowed Time starts out as a quirky romance with quirky and likable protagonists. It soon bogs itself down with a prolonged and less quirky romance story working its way toward justifying its place on a science-fiction shelf with smatterings of hard science and convoluted plot lines which confuse the characters as much as the reader. The end justifies the means, however, and I found much of the book, love and dimensional travel in all, to be endearing and fun, despite the heavy physics lessons and forlorn pining of lost love in Irish meadows.