A review by jryi
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

4.0

This was a refreshing new aspect to time travel. Instead of technology or paradoxes, this book focusses on — as the name suggests — on the psychological effects of time travel, especially for the traveller but also people close to them. How do you cope with the idea of your own mortality, if you constantly jump forwards and backwards in time, visiting people who are not yet born or who are still alive in your own time but dead in the near future? What does it do to your relationships, when your partner knows things about future that you cannot be privy to?

There are also some really mind bending ideas, like "genies", or artifacts that are never manufactured and only exist within a certain time loop, or the judicial system that only applies to the time travel conclave. Mascarenhas has seriously put thought on some minor details, and it pays off.

Fun read, I wouldn't mind a sequel in the future. (I guess past is not an option.)