The Humboldt Effect

A third unsuccessful SF novel, this time exhibiting that all-too-common lack of understanding of the audience. Perhaps it shouldn't shock us here, though; Delia Huddy is 'an editor in a London publishing house' - no guessing which. This sequel to Time Piper, though ultimately absurd in its revelation that Jonah was swallowed by a submarine, not a whale, has a surface gloss in the detailed preparation for the reversal-of-time experiment. Unfortunately, such details, allied to those dealing with the characters and their inter-relationships. are just the thing to send kids to sleep.