A review by edgeworth
A Bridge of Years by Robert Charles Wilson

4.0

A very readable time travel romp about a heartbroken divorcee in 1989 who discovers the house he just built has a mysterious tunnel back to New York City in 1962. Feeling depressed and with nothing to lose, he sets off to build a new life for himself in the past, but is unaware that mid-century Manhattan is also the refuge of a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier deserter from a war-torn future, who thought the tunnel was his escape alone and will kill to hide his secret. This book further cements Wilson in my eyes as a reliable writer of sci-fi potboiler thrillers with a prose style that's a cut above most of his fellow travellers in the genre. I particularly liked how well he humanises the novel's "villain," who's basically just a scared kid turned into a killing machine by his unethical government and is ultimately difficult not to sympathise with.