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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Manse Everard es un patrullero del tiempo, uno de los esforzados paladines que protegen la historia de las alteraciones que una máquina temporal podría introducir en la incierta matriz del futuro. Reunidas por primera vez todas sus aventuras en un solo volumen, le vemos intrigando entre los persas, con los conquistadores españoles, en la Germania invadida por Roma y en otros muchos momentos cruciales de la historia. The complete novella/short story cycle in one volume. I don't agree that time has only one shape, as the author contends, but rather that his posited Danellian posthumans are manipulating all the eras before to make sure they are the only possible result of evolution. But whatever, I loved the clarity and plausibility of this vision of human time travel's likely results. Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/1416509356/1416509356.htm geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering-or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists-erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The stories, published over four decades from 1955 to 1995, strike me as profoundly conservative. One analyst has called them anti-alternate history. Any attempt to clean up the blood of history creates a new wound. Bad as it is, we already live in the best of possible worlds, and any attempt to change it is bound to make it worse. Everard’s adventures through time are filled with loss for him, his fellow officers, and the benighted residents of the unchangeable past.
Anderson is genuinely interested in the historical epochs he describes and is careful with the details of his settings. However, he does not care much about the possible science and technology related to time travel. Everard gets to the past on a bicycle-like machine in homage to H. G. Wells. ( )