A review by _fletchr
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

5.0

I absolutely loved this book. It pushed all the right buttons for me: quantum many worlds, time travel paradoxes, eschatology, Viking myth… The comparisons to True Detective and 12 Monkeys are apt but I was also reminded of the movie Event Horizon (although this is much much better) and William Gibson’s most recent novel The Peripheral. Gibson’s “stubs” and the possible futures presented here are similar, as is the exploration of what their not-quite-real status means for their inhabitants.

The protagonist, NCIS agent Shannon Moss, is really well drawn. The details of her background, her reasons for going into law enforcement, and her relationships with other characters are compelling. Also she’s convincingly tough without being a one-dimensional “badass”.