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Title: Chronospace by Allen M. Steele ISBN: 0-441-00832-1 Publisher: Ace Hardcover Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid, tiem travel story
Comment: I, like many other lovers of the sci-fi genre, thoroughly enjoy time travel stories. Maybe it's the idea of visiting the future or (more likely) returning to the past to witness/change the course of history.
Kage Baker, in her "Company" books, solved the problem inherent in all time travel novels - how to handle changes in the past as they affect the future. She posited that one could not change RECORDED history but could affect else (neat trick). Apparently Mr. Steele does not follow that approach and in a way this is the logical path. There are really two tales here. The first involves the Hindenberg and how its success (or failure) affected world events. The second, more realized line, involves the creation of time travel.
Parts of the tale were excellent - particularly the parts that occurred in Tennessee, my home state. I have been to the very lake described in the book and those awkward meetings between future and present folks are the stuff of time travel novels. What the story lacked was polish. It dragged at times, read clumsily at others, and character development was stillborn. All that aside, the author has created a good yarn that was worth the price.
Rating: 4
Summary: Satisfying read, but read every word
Comment: I am pleased to be the first one to review the new book of fellow New Englander Allen Steele. I enjoy time travel stories immensly, especially those that make sense. This is a magnificent experiment in taking two parallel time streams and crashing them together in a creative, intriguing way. Steele has essentially expanded upon his award-winning short story "Where Angels Fear To Tread" and given it a new beginning and a new ending. It's not often that I read a book that has a cameo appearance...in this case it's the well reknowned writer/scientist Gregory Benford. And fans of sci-fi magazines will like the many references to Analog Science Fiction/Fact magazine. But you MUST read this book from cover to cover to get all of your answers. I was reading along for the first 100 or so pages and enjoying the story that was building. Then suddenly the main character, David Zack Murphy, seems to develop all new characteristics. At first I was shouting "What the...?" But it was resolved in the end in a splendid fashion. "Chronospace" is gripping and tough to put down. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because Mr. Steele needs to scold his editor over a couple of missing words and at least one punctuation mistake. But if that's all I'm nit-picking about, that says a lot for the book and its story.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty good.
Comment: Not the smartest or most challenging piece of sci-fi but it's a good read anyway.
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Title: Coyote by Allen Steele ISBN: 0441011160 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lunar Descent by Allen Steele ISBN: 044150485X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Oceanspace by Allen M. Steele ISBN: 044100850X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Jericho Iteration by Allen Steele ISBN: 0441002714 Publisher: ACE Charter Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Echoes of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441008925 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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