Möbius: The Timeless Artifact

I was curious after reading this book so I looked up the author on wikipedia. His name is Matthias Matting and he is a trained physicist, so I assume his physics speculations are valid. There are basic issues with his use of momentum in the story, so I assume that is due to sloppy writing.He has apparently written over forty books in less than five years, so he spends less than six weeks per novel. It shows. Since it is unlikely that you are also a mechanical engineer, you probably won’t notice the misstatements that glare out to me, but you will notice that the characters don’t behave in predictable human manners. The “mobius” behavior will seem nonsensical. (I too find the behavior improbable. To have the multidimensional object stuck in dozens of dimensions but semi-stuck in space-time defies my concepts of multi-dimensional physics.)My take is that the author has a superficial grasp of cutting edge physics, or perhaps the constraints of pumping out books so rapidly and conforming to plot requirements just results in sloppy writing that the author assumes his readership can’t recognize.The cutting edge physics is thought-provoking. The plotting, which I will attribute to sloppy writing, is problematic.If you want thought-provoking cutting-edge physics (I presume, I am not qualified to judge) this is a good novel. If you want a believable plot with believable characters you might find this story lacking. Personally, my judgement is stuck in the middle.

This book was going well until the hanging ending. It's hard to tell anything about the story because it has various tangles that come about that to tell about them would be giving away a part of the story. Significant is to keep in mind the time everything is happening as we bounce back and forth between Max and Elizabeth. I have a problem that in some episodes time is going backward, and others time is going forward. For the backwards ones I worry that they are experiencing a parallel time frame, and their cavalier way of indebting themselves has consequences for the timeline. Many questions are asked and left unanswered. Probably to be answered in the next book. It would even be inappropriate to discuss the questions because they are a part of the mystery of this book. So I recommend delving into the book and getting your mind all entangled as you read it then buy the next book because you'll become addicted to finding out what happened.

This book focuses on two people at two different times, who apparently know each other. Elizabeth is a topologist called in to investigate an unexplainable object found buried in Iceland. Meanwhile Max is a theoretical physicist attempting to create a new theory of time. Other people are after this object, placing Elizabeth in danger. Max dreams of a similar object which he eventually finds in the archives beneath Princeton University. However as we read on we find that Max has calculated that a quanta of time is 24 hours and every day he is discovering the object anew.... The peculiar object has a coded message embedded which gives some explanation.... But not all.This is a thought provoking novel about time and how we interact with it. There is intrigue, mystery, peril, surprise, suspense , romance and I look forward to finding out more of what happened in the 2nd book.

Interesting premise. If you're not in the mood for highly technical and esoteric discussions on physics, time and topics of very high level science youay be in for a surprise.Admittedly, I skimmed a few paragraphs where the science was too far over my head. And I still thoroughly enjoyed this book.The writing is very engaging as are the characters.It does jump around a bit from different points of reference, but it is easy to follow along once you realize what's happening.

The ending is very abrupt and I still haven't wrapped my head around it. I guess I need to read the second book in the series!

Good story but a little confusing with the unexpected time jumps? Or are the alternate dimensions? The science will stretch your brain from a torus into a coffee cup. Definitely interested in the next book.

Good story line but it gets tangled up with a lot of technical jargon. I would like to rate this book better but I kept getting lost in the story.

Interesting and realistic theories about time travel and scientific research about time and it's effect on the world.Recommend this unexpected fast paced adventure of time and space.

I like BQ Morris way of writing, and generally I give 5 stars. But I got a little disappointed because at the end there are more questions than answers, I have to admit that I will be buying the second book to find the answers. Because the way Morris writes it is very entertaining and instructive

This is Brandon's best work so far. Page turning, great characters, and a really cool concept. Overall a 9/10

Some of the reviews seem to place a bunch of issues with this book in the 'it's hard science so it isn't easy to understand' box. There are some parts of the book that deal with the technical aspects of the scientists trying to figure stuff out, but it has no real implications on the book. In fact, as the book progresses the main character's understanding of the situation devolves into pure intuition and guess-work after about 2 chapters.I can't describe the 'situation' I mentioned because it would be a spoiler, but it makes no sense. I don't mean it doesn't makes sense because its Hard Science (TM) ... I mean it doesn't make sense because it doesn't makes sense. No real explanation is given of the logic of the situation, so there's no basis to criticize it's mechanics.The same is true of the artifact mentioned in the synopsis. What it's stated to be doesn't make sense.There's a major plot-point that's practically magic and happens outside the narrative.It's like the book is just asserting outlandish things that aren't possible and just letting you believe there is some coherent, Hard Science (TM) explanation, without actually presenting one at all.Then the story just stops at the 87% complete mark.The rest of the book is adverts of 700 other books by the same author and, weirdly, copy-pasted articles from some science magazine (which to be honest, were more thought provoking than the book).Also, the synopsis of the book is just wrong. Like, it describes a different book.

Back in the 1980s channel 4 ran a series of films called, I think, curse of the killer Bs - films that were so bad you couldn't help but watch them (after a night at the pub). This is the literary equivalent of one of those. The characters are shallow & 2 dimensional, which is ironic considering there's a lot of waffle about multi-dimensional constructs in this tale. The dialogue is wooden, and I couldn't warm to any of the characters. The science, which Mr. Morris allegedly excels at, was very confusing, even for me, as someone who's read stacks of stuff about realtivity, quantum physics and the like; I've even understood some of it. This exploration of time dynamics left me cold, and I certainly won't be buying the other titles in this series. I note however, that I've already bought "The Disturbance", another one of his, and I hope it's better than Mobius.