From Literary Titan

The book Time Lines by Giulio A. Savo is a sweeping and intricate story about memory, survival, and the fragile threads that connect our lives across timelines. It doesn't just tell a straight tale. Instead, it bends and folds, presenting fractured futures, failed worlds, and the human struggle to get it right just once. Through characters like Samantha, Elly, Max, Sunita, Renée, and Andori, we move between the Nazca desert, space stations, collapsed civilizations, and alternate ages of humanity. At its core, it's a meditation on memory, how it defines us, betrays us, and sometimes saves us. The science-fiction framework of neural resonance, timelines, and echoes is really just a way to explore grief, hope, and the longing for continuity in a fractured universe.

Reading this book felt like getting pulled into a dream. The writing is bold, lyrical at times, and not afraid to get messy. I loved how the narrative leaned into confusion rather than fighting it. Memory isn't clean, and this story doesn't pretend it is. I felt unsettled, even frustrated at points, but that seemed intentional. The voices of the characters lingered with me. Some chapters felt sharp and fast, almost brutal, while others slowed down into reflection, like drifting through echoes of lives I half-remembered myself. It reminded me of that strange sensation of déjà vu; familiar but haunting, like something just out of reach.

At the same time, I'll admit there were moments where the complexity threatened to overwhelm me. The constant shifting between timelines and the weight of so many interlaced fates made it hard to follow at times. Yet, even in that chaos, I felt a strange intimacy with the story. The ideas about time as a thief and memory as both a curse and a gift hit me hard. There's a raw humanity underneath all the science and cosmic scale, and that's what kept me turning the pages. The book made me think about my own life, about the memories I cling to and the ones I've lost, and it left me feeling a little haunted in the best way.

Time Lines is a powerful and ambitious book that blends science fiction with philosophy and heart. It's not for someone looking for a simple space adventure. It's for readers who enjoy being challenged, who want a story that asks them to sit with uncertainty and lean into wonder. If you like novels that blur the line between speculative fiction and poetry, or if you've ever felt the pull of memory you can't explain, this book will resonate deeply with you.

From Reedsy

I can't describe this book in a few characters! Surreal, life-affirming, adventurous, spooky, daring? Savo has written a truly unique book!

I've just finished reading Time Lines and I have to write my review straightaway in order to capture my mood and my thoughts on it. I can honestly say that I have never read anything quite like this and I'm not sure that I am going to be able to relay my awe sufficiently at Savo's vision and the way that he has managed to craft it into a book, enough to do it justice, but I will try.

Where to start? Let's talk about the atmosphere of the book. It feels like you are reading a piece of prophecy, a projection of what could be in our future (or many of them) and it has a tone which is almost ethereal, as if you're peering through time itself, like it's a gauze or a web.

If that sounds woolly, I don't mean it to be because it's very clearly written throughout with pointers and descriptively titled chapters to guide you as to what is going on and an extensive glossary and character summary at the end to provide further clarification if it is needed. I suspect that its almost dream-like quality comes from its subject matter (which is that there are multiple timelines leading to multiple endings in its simplest terms) and the fact that at times a lot of what is happening in the story is uncertain for its characters too.

Our main focus is on four astronauts called Renee, Elly, Sunita and Max and we follow them through, well, time. When four astronaut suits are found buried in the Nazca desert, it is the launch point from which we uncover how this could possibly occur, the suits having been there for thousands of years. And yet, is it really a surprise? Not for all and that's what becomes revealed as the story unfolds.

This novel has many aspects. It is science fiction but it takes us to previous civilisation too. It feels experimental whilst also being paradoxically firm in what it's trying to say. It has messages about humanity and motive and where we might be headed but it is not delivered in a didactic way- it's like exploring a dreamscape where ideas are presented and then move away again, like the folds of time that make up the threads of the book.

It is a book that is worthy of exploration for its truly unique quality.

Absolutely brilliant. A stunning sci-fi-philosophy hybrid.

Part science fiction, part philosophy, this is fundamentally a book about what it means to grieve, remember, and dream. It asks: why is it important that human beings remember, and why is it important that we be remembered? Combining a nonlinear, cyclical plot with well-formed characters and thoughtful meditations on the passage of the years, this is a must-read novel. The "archive of failed tomorrows" was my favorite part. Let’s hope for a sequel in the future!

Best new sci fi

If you can keep up with the story lines this is amazing. Extremely intricate. It is a deep web of time and history but very well done. Best read slow and really take it in. Probably going to have to read it again to see what i missed. Darren Aronofsky should direct this movie just sayin…if anyone is smart enough to see the vision of this book like that.

Imaginative and haunting

"Time Lines" is a provocative cautionary tale detailing potential consequences of wormhole experimentation. One of its frightening premises is that people's thoughts experienced in the future within parallel timelines become dislodged and are involuntarily absorbed (feeling like memories and/or images from dreams) by those living in the present day. Along the way, we vividly experience the heartbreak repeatedly endured by four astronauts who are only peripherally aware that the mission they've been chosen for is an attempt to have order preserved within the universe, which will be fatally fractured on a quantum level without their intervention. With mind-bending creativity, author Giulio Savo catapults us into the harrowing alternate worlds that wind up being generated on Earth, exploring humankind suffering on personal levels due to multiple parameters within which we experience life becoming negatively altered. A compelling and skillfully crafted work.Amazing unique story about, loss, and the importance of relationships

This book was an amazing read, anyone who is interested in a dystopian that follows a story of memory, loss, and the importance of relationships, would definitely love this book! The whole time, I could not set this book down. The way the characters interact with each other, but also how the characters were able to interact with the readers through the sharing of their story, was truly something unique. If you are looking for your next binge-worthy read, this book should be on the top of your list, you will most certainly be transported to another world and won't want to set it down.

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