(Drivebycuriosity) - Time travel is a fascinating idea and a longstanding sub-genre of science fiction. Unfortunately time travel leads to a paradox. If someone travels back in time and kills his father in Kindergarten he would not exist. But the authors found a solution: Alternate worlds. Time moves like a tree grows. It splits into different branches or time lines. People can move back in time and ruin the environment, but this not their problem, because they orginated a new time line (branch). So they ruin just another time line and theirs is still intact. It is interesting that these ideas are supported by Quantum Physics.
Tom Sweterlitsch time travel novel "Gone World" seems to be based on Quantum Mechanics, especially on Everett’s Many Worlds Interpretation (wikipedia ). The highly complex plot follows a woman who jumps back and forth on different time lines (or alternate worlds) and tries stop the apocalypse, solve murder cases and also rescue an abducted girl ( amazon ).
Sweterlitsch can write and he has a lot interesting ideas but he created a mess. The plot leads into way too many loops, contradicting outcomes and alternate worlds. It seems that at the end of the book he lost track of his own story. There are a lot explosive action scenes, apocalyptic events and gory tableaus which keep the reader awake but they cannot save the plot.
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