The Big Time

How it reads

The Big Time is science fiction (time-war science fiction, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in several locations, in the future, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are war, survival and love. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is bittersweet: it resolves, but at a price. At 130 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.