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One Day All This Will Be Yours (2021)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Welcome to the end of time. It's a perfect day. Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there's no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that's sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time. I was the one who ended it. Ended the fighting, tidied up the damage as much as I could. Then I came here, to the end of it all, and gave myself a mission: to never let it happen again.… (more)
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Hilarious! I love the tone, and even though he is a murderous bastard, I love the main character. I nearly gave this 5 stars, but the ending was a bit too open for me. ( )
1 vote zjakkelien | Jan 2, 2024 |
This dark tongue-in-cheek badass time traveler tale could've been a funny short story, but boy does it overstay its welcome. ( )
  igorken | Oct 1, 2023 |
I've been avoiding time travel stories of late (and multiverse stories and alternate history stories) because they usually run into the same boring problem: once the "universe" changes from the hero's timeline (usually MY timeline), it's no longer interesting. Anything can happen and it's happening to people in a different world so who cares? But I got this book as part of a bundle so I read it. And to my delight, the author seems to be addressing the same complaints. And also it's funny. And short. ( )
  JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |
In a post-apocalyptic time and space, mankind is practically extinct due to a time war. At the end of time a sole survivor - a former soldier - sits and gleefully murders any stragglers. In order to remain alone and to prevent another rise of humanity and, thus, another war, he also travels back in time and happily commits genocide or whatever it takes to eradicate the survivors’ communities as well.

Yes, murder and genocide for good fun.

And as if that wasn’t enough in itself: I didn’t find it funny in the least. When this novella wasn’t about (mass) murder, it was about the cheapest kind of trolling.

One disgusted star out of five.

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1 vote philantrop | Jan 16, 2023 |
Our nameless, faceless protagonist in this light-hearted post-epochalyptic tale has charged himself with protecting the future, so to speak. The past has been completely decimated in an endless series of time and causality wars. He will not only kill but erase anyone who threatens the future.

I went straight into this from Becky Chambers' Closed and Common Orbit and – talk about culture shock – the two could not have been more different. And I mean that in the best possible way (on both sides).

Chambers doesn't so much write novels as she does character studies in story format. This, on the other hand, isn't so much a novella as it is a philosophy/game theory/sociology textbook in story format.

If you enjoy stories that make you think, that leave you lying awake asking yourself how time works, this one's for you. ( )
  clacksee | Dec 12, 2022 |
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Welcome to the end of time. It's a perfect day. Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there's no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that's sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time. I was the one who ended it. Ended the fighting, tidied up the damage as much as I could. Then I came here, to the end of it all, and gave myself a mission: to never let it happen again.

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