TIMESCAPE By Gregory Benford

Published : 1980
Pages : 412
Overall Mark : 7/10

When a young scientist in 1962 starts to receive interference in one of his experiments, he discovers that the interference actually contains messages from someone and someplace unknown to him. The truth that the messages are a warning from the future soon comes to light, but his peers find it hard to believe due to the inconsistency of the messages and he finds himself having to fight to prove the messages to be true.

This is an interesting idea, but the notion could have been explained in a more efficient way. Benford does an admirable job of describing the exact methods of scientists in all the time periods he describes, and keeps the story alive through its realism rather than using fantastic plot devices to further the story. Well worth reading, but only if you have the patients as the pacing is slow.