Timequake

Just finished reading Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Timequake (1997). His last published novel that he wrote over ten years (although I think it is over 5 years x2 because of the re-run) and is mostly about the novel that he couldn't write, Timequake 1. It’s nothing amazing and it is very sentimental about his large extended family, which I liked, but the main idea for the story is great. 

In 2001 there was a “timequake” that sent everyone back to exactly where they were at that moment in 1991. Everyone must live the next ten years knowing what is going to happen but unable to change any of the decisions or outcomes. In 2001 at the exact moment when the timequake kicked in during the original timeline everyone’s free will is reactivated, but because they were on auto-pilot for the last ten years no one reacts immediately and chaos ensues. 

Pretty funny stuff.