Love suspense, science fiction, and brain-burning science fiction, but can't let go of romantic love? "A Wrinkle in Time and Space: Embers of an Ancient House" by a new author combines these three elements perfectly and is worth reading!
The story begins with photographer Lin Shen's journey to find his father: his father has been missing for seven years, leaving only half a diary with the words "Qingchuan Ancient House" and "Time and Space Rift" written on it, and a luminous metal fragment. When he broke into an abandoned old house in the mountains, creaking sounds, afterimages on the walls, and inexplicable whispers came one after another in the middle of the night. It wasn't until he met the astrophysicist Su Wan that he realized that the "haunting" was actually the "afterimage of the Republic of China" left by the folds of time and space. The figure of the eldest lady in the Shen family's white dress and the blue halo in the laboratory were all the aftermath of the experimental disaster decades ago.
The novel has a mature rhythm, and there are hooks at the end of each chapter (such as the sudden disappearance of the afterimage, the red alarm of the instrument), which is suitable for fragmented reading; the scene description has a sense of picture, the musty smell of the ancient house, and the distorted blue light of time and space, as if they are right in front of you. The most touching thing is the two-line love: the life and death dependence of Shen Qingci and Lin Wenxuan in the Republic of China, and the adventurous love between Lin Shen and Su Wan in modern times, adding softness and warmth to hard-core science fiction.
If you are tired of reading routine time-traveling novels, you might as well try this newcomer's work. A fresh perspective may bring unexpected surprises - who can resist "traveling through an ancient house" that hides century-old secrets?
