The Plot to Save Socrates
Amazon.com The Plot to Save Socrates
My review -
This
intricate plot successfully combines time travel, history, philosophy and a
good writing style to bring a story such as I’ve ever read before. The main
premise is that a group of people are attempting to persuade Socrates not to
take the hemlock which kills him. There’s a plot to save him but he feels he
needs to take this step, agonising though it will be. We find out why and how
it’s proposed to do this. There’s a complex thread of both time and place as
characters move from past to present and future using programmable chairs. As
you can imagine, it requires a degree of suspension of disbelief but the story was
coherent and, within its genre, credible.
Paul
Levinson has a comfortable writing style and I was rapidly drawn into this tapestry
of historical and fictional characters. Some of the outcomes were very
satisfying and it’s evident that there will be more to come. Enough hanging
threads remain to ensure that there’ll be more time travel in my future. I
enjoyed it very much.
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