So, this is a time-travel story with emotional heft… it is nuanced and thoughtful and quite beautiful. Green’s growing sense of dislocation is adroitly handled, as is Zada’s increasing desperation as she misses him time and again. For anyone who has felt an opportunity slip away or who has wondered about possibilities lost, which must surely include most folk, this is a book that will resonate. ~ British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), REVIEW

Secondhand Daylight is playful, credible and clever: science fiction in the best tradition of ‘what if?’ It seizes reader buy-in to the welfare of Green and Zada. A scattering of secondary characters read perfectly, with nary a cliché or dud. Of particular interest is the sound envisioning of the near-ish future, post-Covid world, and the sharp eye on how the past appears when the observer handles it as history. Secondhand Daylight is an engrossing read for lovers of classy sci-fi and the enigmatic continuum of space-time. Let Zada and Green show you just how valuable each moment is. Aurealis #157 February 2023 ~ Aurealis #157, Review

Secondhand Daylight is a fast-paced, cleverly constructed novel told from two points of view, and which takes place over a series of jumps both forward and backward across time. Bacon and Hook have made magic here. Focused more on ruminations of meaning and relationships and heart than details of time-travel technology, this engaging story is beautifully written with many lovely turns of phrase, its flawed and broken characters are fully realized and reading it is very likely to be an enjoyably good use of your own time. ~ Wole Talabi, award-winning author of Shigidi, Incomplete Solutions and Editor of Africanfuturism, Goodreads

Beautifully disjointed and exquisitely nuanced, Bacon and Hook have deftly created a transgressive, dislocated narrative that will have readers losing hours with the efficiency of a time slip. ~ Dave Jeffery, author of the A Quiet Apocalypse series

Secondhand Daylight is written with the style and verve I've come to expect from Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook. ~ Priya Sharma, award-winning author of All the Fabulous Beasts

Secondhand Daylight is a joy. It hurtles along at a cracking pace, is relentlessly inventive and always emotionally engaging. Both Green and Zada are spiky, flawed but eminently likeable characters and the reader is quickly drawn to them and their individual plights. ~ Terry Grimwood, author of Interference

An innovative and gritty take on time travel, fate and entanglement. This story grabs the twin spirals of nostalgia and future-shock in one compelling bite. ~ Justina Robson, author of Glorious Angels and The Switch

In Secondhand Daylight Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook resettle readers beyond the laws of physics. They unsettle its foundations, fundamentals and possibilities in a universe where time travel scenarios hold ‘no basis in scientific fact’ and can ‘only be psychological’. This is a bracingly versatile and provocative book. ~ Dominique Hecq, award-winning author, poet and translator

A cracking tale of puckering timelines that shimmers with possibilities and blesses with impossibilities. ~ Clare Rhoden, author of The Chronicles of the Pale

Intriguing and poetic, this ambitious book combines hypnotic writing with a gritty cynicism reminiscent of William Gibson. Whether lost on the dance floor or to the mysteries of time, the story of the main characters’ stubborn survivalism will pull you in and not let go. ~ KC Grifant, award-winning short story writer and author of Melinda West: Monster Gunslinger

Hook and Bacon superbly capture what it is to feel out of sync with life. This is the new SF, a refreshing take on old tropes. ~ Tony Ballantyne, author of the Recursion, Penrose and Dream World series

Quantum Leap meets Memento in this clever exploration of time travel. The plot loops enticingly around an exploration of the personal impact of skipping erratically through time. ~ Phil Nicholls, reviewer and writer for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA)

Secondhand Daylight is a tale of characters entwined back and forth across time that picks Green and Zada apart as they try to find themselves, to discover purpose, and maybe find each other. Everything ripples off the page -- words, phrases skilfully evoking place and character. ~ Scott Vandervalk, editor and author

Bacon and Hook’s novel Secondhand Daylight is an emotive and kinetic take on time-travel fiction, where magical realism and hard sci-fi collide to form an innovative and poetic narrative which fans of 80s post punk and books like This Is How You Lose The Time War will certainly enjoy. Secondhand Daylight is subtly queer and tinged with social commentary too, showing Melbourne changing through the eyes of two distinct and well-realised protagonists, starting in the recent past, and offering a surprisingly hopeful vision of a future yet to come. ~ Maddison Stoff, neurodivergent non-binary essayist, independent musician and author of For We Are Young And Free, a collection of meta-fictional Australian cyberpunk