![]() ![]() She’s spent her life restoring river ecosystems, but funding for long-term projects has been slim since the discovery of time travel. Minh’s a plague baby, part of the generation that first moved back up to the Earth’s surface from the underground hells in order to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. The other strand of the story starts in 2267. Every chapter begins with a paragraph or three from Shulgi’s perspective, and it becomes clear that he’s a clever and honest man doing a difficult job in overwhelming circumstances. The priestess of the moon, Susa, believes that the signs mean the gods desire Shulgi’s death. ![]() In Mesopotamia, in or around 2024 BCE, the king Shulgi finds his people and his kingdom beset by odd signs and omens, including strange-shaped demons who kill some of his people. One of these stories is entirely linear, as befits a time-travel narrative. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson is cunningly structured, a sly sleight of hand that sees two parallel stories told simultaneously. ![]() Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson ( Tor.com Publishing 978-4-4, $3.99, 232pp, eb). ![]()
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