The Time Traveler S Wife

Author: Audrey Niffenegger

This is another one of those sneaky first-book debut novels that slid in under the radar in 2003. No one had ever heard of Audrey Niffenegger before she sold a couple million copies and then optioned and had her novel turned into a movie. Worse, her book is categorized as romantic science fiction. That's fighting words for some people. How could she invade science fiction with - love? The jokes on those who haven't read it yet. It's damn good. All science fiction can't be doom and gloom, wars and battles, superhuman telepaths with zappy brains and aliens. Sometimes it has to be about people with real life problems. In this case it is about a woman whose boyfriend just happens to have a defect that causes him to spontaneously time travel. I know a lot of women feel like their boyfriends do this already without a defect to justify their mysterious absences and a few women wish their boyfriends would zap off to some dangerous place where they might get - oh right. Well, this isn't a chick book. It is a really damn good, modern science fiction novel. Are you brave enough to read it?