The Map of the Sky by Felix J Palma

I loved Felix J Palma’s first US published novel, The Map of Time (my review), where we followed the adventures of Jack the Ripper, HG Wells and a man who advertises journeys to the year 2000. It was a fun book with a lot of twists and turns and an inventive story and structure. Palma’s new novel The Map of the Sky, is a direct sequel that features several players from the first book. Only, where the first book dealt with Wells’ The Time Machine, this book is more focused on Wells’ The War of the Worlds. So, let’s check out what happens.

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The Map of Time by Felix Palma

I had to start reading The Map of Time twice. I had reserved it from the library and it came in one day before I got REAMDE(and I couldn’t hold off reading that since every Stephenson book deserves to be read immediately), so I ended up not having enough time to read it before I had to return it (someone else had reserved it). So, I went back on the reserve list and finally got it. I had run across the book somewhere and it just looked interesting and when I saw that H.G. Wells was going to be a main character, I knew that I had to read it. And I’m so glad I did, it’s a great book that tells its tale in an interesting way. So, let’s see what the map of Time really is.

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