The Trinity Paradox by Kevin J. Anderson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Got this in the Time Travel Storybundle
This book was a good read. That said, I was disappointed, given the title of the story – The Trinity PARADOX. I thought it was going to be like Back to the Future 2 where our main character ended up in the alternate timeline and then had to somehow stop herself from creating the alternate timeline. Or multiple people would try to change it or something like that.
Instead, what we had was more akin to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court or Timeline in which, like the former, someone is knocked out and knocked back in time. Our main character used to work in the atomic industry then became a protestor. Then the time travel results in her working at Los Alamos during the atomic tests.
The book does a good job pointing out how the war split the scientific community. In modern times research transcends national borders and it was more of a government enforcement that splits them apart during the war. This has consequences as it’s one of the ways that our main character ends up accidentally passing information to the Germans.
The author does a pretty good job of showing how things would have changed and how the war was going from both sides. Good character studies of various historical figures. I liked learning about some of the bickering among scientists on the German side. Although I can’t stop thinking of Fermi and Feynman as depicted in The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.. A fun read although, again, slightly disappointing considering the title.