[net.books] THE EMPIRE OF TIME by Crawford Kilian

ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (09/17/85)

                   THE EMPIRE OF TIME by Crawford Kilian
                           Del Rey, 1978, $2.50.
                     A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper

     Jerry Pierce, crack agent for the Intertemporal Agency, goes back in
time to find out why an enormous disaster stuck Earth in the future.  He
meets an African Bushman named Anita !Kosi (who has some not very secret
powers).  They mention all sort of paradoxes without resolving or explaining
any of them.  Like, if someone gives William Blake a copy of his collected
works published in 1980 before he's written most of them, does he actually
bother to write them?  If he doesn't, do they vanish?  Kilian farbles around
this by having these be either alternate worlds or our world, only earlier
in time, depending on which suits his need.  Disappointing.

					Evelyn C. Leeper
					...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl

ewan@uw-june (Ewan Tempero) (09/18/85)

I just want to give a positive comment to this book. It's been some time
since I read it but I do remember that I enjoyed it enough to re-read it
and recommend it to others.
-- 
            Ewan

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Ewan Tempero                                      "Oh no, not again"
UUCP: ...!uw-beaver!uw-june!ewan    ARPA: ewan@washington.ARPA
Please check all nuclear arms at the door.

tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) (09/20/85)

The Canadian patriot in me feels its necessary to point out to the
world that Crawford Killian is one of the many fine Canadian 
science fiction writers (others include this year's Nebula winner
William Gibson, Spider Robinson, Donald Kingsbury, and Wayland Drew.

rjs