Apathy

· Baltar Xinzo
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The year is 2075 and Jamal is a mechanic, but not one of the kind you may be thinking of, he is a hitman by profession in the most crude variation of his trade. Often he is hired for jobs of retrieval of evidence. On occasions, he has to engineer certain situations to happen according to the precise terms of his contracts. This time, Jamal was hired to ruin the career of an incipient actor and comedian named Joe Jenkins. There is a catch, though. Joe lived seventy-three years ago. The name of this game is reverse causality enforcement, and it may imply more than Jamal was hired for.

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5.0
2 reviews
Quin Tu
14 May 2024
The most interesting time travel I have read in years. The author makes the characters and the settings are so credible that I believed that this story actually happened, and perhaps that was the case. I recommend reading this novel before the events described in it happen, and if they do not happen, well, you might be in a different multiverse. This is a page-turning book for those who like a contemporary take on the time travel paradoxes.
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About the author

Baltar Xinzo is the pen name of a writer and engineer who has embraced the freedom of writing fiction to jog the emotional intelligence of his readers. Xinzo speculative fiction is characterized by a dark tone, often qualified as sci-fi noir, but, unlike other exponents of this style, his stories are permeated by a sense of hope and human sensibility. In his fiction writings, he explores existentialist issues in the backdrop of genres such as cyberpunk, hard science fiction, trans-humanism, and trans-realism.

You may have realized that Baltar Xinzo is the pen name of a real human being, not a mere AI. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and two lovely cats that make him company during his creative sessions. When not writing fiction, he is a research scientist, among other things.

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