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• Singularity, published in 1985 by E. Dutton, is a science fiction novel for young adults written by William Sleator.It was listed as a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and was a Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee.
• My book report: 'Singularity' by William Sleator Summary Harry and Barry Kraser of Boston, 16-year-old identical twins; Barry is athletic, bossy, a show off, average student, and hates being a twin; Harry (the narrator) is shy, smart, thoughtful, but he is devoted to Barry. So, when the Kraser family inherits an.

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The Art of Imagination Know any others? And let your friendly mods know! Hi I'm looking for a recommendation of realistic and believable time machine or time travel books or movies. I've enjoyed many titles and I can suspend my disbelief pretty easily. Wells' Time Machine to Hot Tub Time Machine, from Back to the Future to Looper, from TimecCop to Timeline, and from Predestination to Family Guy. I've enjoyed many of it.

But I'm looking for something more believable. Something that's not hard to imagine that a machine can send you back or forward in time.

It can't be a hot tub or a washing machine, or a car, a phone booth, or a remote control. I imagine it to be something big, massive, and requires a lot of energy. Like that machine in Contact, or a super collider thing, or some super massive structure. Primer is probably the best time travel movie I've seen. IMO it excels because it starts from a garage experiment of trying to counteract gravity. And gravity distorts spacetime so it's a much easier leap to make into time travel than the 'it just works' route taken by most other time travel films out there.

Additionally, Primer does a VERY good job at exploring the implications of time travel compared to many other films. The butterfly effect isn't as exaggerated. There aren't any moments of coming back to find that the minor changes they made to their lives altered the course of human evolution which, let's be honest, is always silly. Although some subtle things do start happening both to them and their local worlds which builds a very appropriately confusing sense of dread. Criticizing Primer for being hard to watch is like criticizing a video game for being hard to beat.

It's the experience of it being difficult that makes it worth it. If it wasn't then the movie would be cheapened as a result. It's supposed to feel real and intimate and organic and confusing. You're supposed to feel half-there the whole time because that's how the characters end up at the end. It's about the terrifying implications of a discovery made by regular people. It's about the slippery slope of breaking the rules of the universe. But be prepared to watch it a couple times before everything clicks I to place.

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I would also add that Primer places very clear, and to my mind very plausible, restrictions on its time travel. You turn on the machine, and when you go back, you go to the moment the machine was turned on. (It occurs to me now that it works like making a save-point in a video game.) You can't go forward at all, and you can't go back any further than the initial date the first machine was switched on. Primer also actually follows it's own rules the whole time. A lot of time travel stories like to establish what the rules are, and then break them during the climax.

Primer never cheats. I also like that Primer isn't a closed-loop story.

A lot of stories and movies - like Heinlein's 'All You Zombies' and 'By His Bootstraps,' Timecrimes, Predestination, and - feature a closed time loop where a future version of the protagonist causes the past version to use the time machine in the first place. The logic here is that if time travel is possible, then closed time loops with no external cause are possible, and if they are possible, then they will happen. But I sometimes find those a bit unsatisfying.

The fact that Primer makes the rule that you cannot go back to before the machine was turned on, let alone invented, means that it is not a close-loop story, and the plot is not just a puzzle about how it's all going to work out so that nothing changes. I enjoyed Primer. However, I disagree that its overly complicated plot is like a fine wine that one needs to work to appreciate. Primer makes it seem like the rules of time travel are rooted in reality, but they're not.

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They're still made-up and quasi fictional rules and physics, however much they resemble the real thing. No one knows how time travel really actually works or if it's even possible. So my point is that it was tiresome to see Primer's fetishism for fabricating and obeying as these complex 'rules' of time travel that aren't even real, just to make it seem like the movie has a grasp of what 'real' time travel implies.

I would have liked the story to have been easier to follow and the movie to have spent a little more time making the characters engaging and the consequences of their actions more poetic. It's a fiction film pretending to be a documentary unironically and I would have liked it better if they made the story a little more dynamic.

Publication date Media type Print ( & ) Singularity, published in by, is a for written. It was listed as a, a Selection, and was a Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee. Plot introduction Sixteen-year-old identical twins Harry and Barry learn that their mysterious great-uncle has died, and his house and possessions now belong to their mother. The brothers travel to Sushan, Illinois, to examine the house and its contents.

Inside the cobweb-filled home, the rival brothers find mysterious animal skeletons and other odd objects. Outside Uncle Ambrose's residence, Harry and Barry find a small metal-reinforced building, which according to the accompanying keys, is called the 'playhouse.' When the twins explore the playhouse, they discover that the properties of time are altered inside, and the playhouse may explain the eccentricities of their great-uncle.

When their quirky and cute neighbor Lucy enters their lives, competition between the twins escalates, and Harry makes a decision that will change the nature of their relationship forever. Reception. In his review of Singularity, bestselling author of The Ender Saga, wrote 'Singularity. Is a masterpiece. I can't recommend this novel highly enough—it's on my list of best all-time works of science fiction.'

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