This book was not well written. Full of cliches (space battles; the thawing of Han Solo; a ripoff of Asimov's "psychohistory" that makes much less sense), dull characters, bad dialogue. The biggest problem is the lack of relationships between the characters--they share no mutual interests, and have no real friendships and show no interest in human companionship. There's no animosity, either. The characters spend the whole book talking as if they're delivering the exposition on an episode of Star Trek. I just didn't care what happened to them. It seems the author doesn't care either.

The only positive part of the book is a what-seemed-to-me-original description of libraries and archives in the far future.

Not worth the time; ends in mid-story to induce you to buy the sequels (which I won't of course). (

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teutoberg | Aug 25, 2008 |

One of the best and most scientifically plausible was Robert L Forward's _Timemaster_ (1992).

fpagan | Dec 28, 2006 |

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553574973, Mass Market Paperback)

Time is of the essence when you're stranded in the future....

Humanity is running out of time.

The settled universe is filled with terraformed worlds linked by timeshafts -- temporal wormholes in deep space. These timeshafts are the only way to travel the vast distances between the stars.

The Chronologic Patrol is charged with guarding the timeshaft wormholes and preventing time paradoxes at all costs. But one critical mission ends in disaster, turning Anton Koffield, captain of the Upholder, into a dark legend....

As ships carrying relief supplies to a crippled planet approach a timeshaft, they are mercilessly set upon by mysterious attackers -- their crews are murdered and the sanctity of time itself is at risk.

In response, Koffield is forced to do the unthinkable: he must stop the invasion by destroying the timeshaft. Marooned eighty years in the future, he lives as a cursed figure, the villain who killed a world.

And his odyssey through time has only just begun....

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