![]() At first, she comes across as strange and aloof and more than a bit stalker-ish, but as their story together develops there’s a grounded in-story explanation for her behaviors and what Younger means to her. ![]() I also really enjoyed the relationship between Younger and Iffy, the actually American-American girl, that he finds himself attached to after his temporal mishap alters the shape of history. It’s a well realized world and an interesting setting, one that provides an intriguing jumping off point for what follows. And although I enjoyed it quite a bit, there were a few hangups in the narrative that nagged at me.įirst, the good: I truly dug the alt-timeline approach that Battles takes, establishing Younger and his compatriots as citizens of the British Empire. While Rewinder is a compelling story, it’s not entirely without fault. During one rewind mission, he makes a simple mistake that forever alters the course of the British Empire and finds the landscape of 2015 remarkably different. As a rewinder, Younger is, simply put, a time traveler. His job as a rewinder is to verify the familial lineages of their clients through observation. Revised edition: This edition of Rewinder includes editorial revisions.ĭenny Younger isn’t from around here… A Level Eight resident of New Cardiff in the American territories of the British Empire in 2015, Younger is among the most recent of recruits to the Upjohn Institute. When a time jump drops Denny into the midst of a rebellion, he finds himself in over his head in a deadly game where even the smallest choices can have catastrophic consequences.Īrmed only with his wits and his time-travel device, Denny’s adventures take readers on a pulse-pounding journey of page-turning twists. But as he journeys across the centuries, he begins to suspect that his missions to “observe and report” have a much darker purpose. Using a device capable of opening a portal into any era from the past, Denny is sent back to serve as an eyewitness to significant moments in human history. ![]() After accepting the offer, Denny discovers he’ll have to do his research in person…by traveling through time. The role: “verifier of personal histories.” The job title: Rewinder. Denny was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak fortunes changed the day the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruited him. The ending in particular blew me away, which I’ll talk about in the spoiler section.You will never read Denny Younger’s name in any history book, but the world as you know it wouldn’t be the same without him. ![]() Throw in Grei Potemic (Julian Forsyth), a general who is becoming more and more unhinged as he and his men continue to be killed over and over, and you’ve got a really gripping final half of the story. Her story gets a lot better when she decides to do something different and head to a nearby castle, where right at the end of the loop she finds the Doctor (Jonathon Carley’s spot on version of John Hurt’s incarnation) who she soon finds out is responsible for her planet’s predicament. It creates a fun story, even if Ignis is a little dull to begin with, taking everything in good spirits with the occasional bit of sarcasm which doesn’t really inspire the fear and dread everyone should be feeling… She talks to friend Regis Parenthis (Homer Todiwala) who always becomes the leader of the planet when half of the planet, including the leadership and his family, are wiped out she walks somewhere new comes back to give the same speech about hoping the next loop being the last then wakes up in the same morning to repeat the loop, only the Dalek Berserkers get just that little bit closer each time and unlike Groundhog Day everyone on the planet remembers every loop. The first half of the story is narrated by a woman called Ignis (Sarah Moss) from the planet Lacuna, a planet that’s caught in a time loop while in the middle of being destroyed by an army of new Dalek types called Dalek Berserkers. After feeling a bit flat on the previous two stories I’m happy to report that “Rewind” was a great story, taking the rather trad at this point Groundhog Day scenario of reliving the same day over and over and giving it a really good spin. ![]()
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