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Title: A rebel in time by Harry Harrison, Howard V. Chaykin ISBN: 0-523-48554-9 Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Pub. Date: 1983 Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: As Alternate History, This left Me Tired
Comment: I read Harry Turtledove's 'Guns for the South' when it was released and loved it. When I discovered that this was written a few years earlier, I decided to read it. Did he plagerize it? I think not!!! Harrison is no match for Turtledove. I found the book poorly written and developed; especially the contrived end. The concept is fine--I enjoy alternate history when there is a ring of truth to it, but I found that completely missing in this book. It was difficult to accept that the hero, African American Sergeant Harmon, goes back to 1859 to prevent Colonel McCulloch from giving the South the Sten gun, the weapon to ensure victory in the soon-to-be war. An African American would have had a very hard time traveling with his equipment that he had, let alone by himself in the South of 1859. This concept was done much better by Turtledove, whom, I believe, is a much better author. I would encourage everyone to read 'Guns of the South' and not 'Rebel in Time'. At least his descriptions and development are better. I was very disappointed.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very disappointing for Harrison
Comment: Harrison usually has intelligent characters making reasonable decisions, but this book is premised on a decision that is so ridiculous, that I couldn't get past the first few chapters. The situation: A modern-day bad guy has taken the plans for a simple machine gun back in time to change the outcome of the Civial War. The obvious solution: Take a year to train a Seal Team for the mission (You can send anyone from anywhen to anywhen, so it doesn't matter how much time you take to prepare.) Send them back to a month before the bad guy arrived, so that they are ready and waiting for him when he gets there. Harrison's solution: Send a lone black man with no training and no weapons to pre-Civil War Virginia to arrive several months after the bad guy. That's silly.
Rating: 4
Summary: A fun book.
Comment: This is an interesting concept, and was run to read. I'm glad to see it back in print. I had a hard time finding it.
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