Humanity is out of energy, food and resources everything is slowly crumbling into “an enroaching plague of shit”. It is a run-down, dingy, far-future civilization reminiscent of many of Philip K Dick’s schlubby dystopias. In part, this is a function of the fact that Time Salvagers’ world is, even by its own lights, a mess. The world of Time Salvager is not vividly imagined or distinctive instead it’s slapped together from old, banged-up genre tropes and narratives. The ship passes quickly out of the story, but the clichés stand their ground. The spaceship captain of the High Marker stands on his bridge and receives status reports in standard sci-fi gobbledygook: “Shield arms down!” “Mobility thrusters offline!” “Aft hull breached!” “Get me one damn shield arm and I can deflect the blast!” Captain Kirk and Han Solo wander around somewhere off to the side, half-visible ghosts of sci-fi space opera past. Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager opens on a familiar scene.
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