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Summary: Well worth the time to read
Review: H.G. Wells told his original time travel tale in just over a hundred pages. Baxter took nearly 600 pages to spin his sequel. This is the only complaint I have for Time Ships. The story is believable. The characters were believable, meaning they seemed the same as the first tale by Wells. A very good book but also very disturbing. I don't mean disturbing in a bad way as far as the book is concerned. It is one of those books that makes you consider your own mortality and insignificance. A truly worthwhile book.
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: The Time Ships was the first Baxter book I picked up and boy was I in for a surprise. I can easily say it is one of the greastest books I have read (and I've read a lot of them). Anyone who loves time travel stories, or just wants to read a great book you must check this one out. Baxter's story telling power assisted by his scientific and mathematical knowlegde makes this a really great story. But that's all I'll say. Buy the book yourself and see what its all about.
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Summary: Old-time science fiction
Review: If you like "modern" (for lack of a better term) science fiction, which is often intensely psychological and character-driven, then Baxter is probably not for you. But if you also like Golden Age science fiction, full of mind-bending ideas and fascinating stories, then Baxter definitely is for you. Science fiction has not seen an imagination this audacious since Arthur C. Clarke. True, also like Clarke, Baxter's characters can be a bit thin at times. But since his novels often encompass the fate of entire races and the passage of millennia, there is no paucity of depth to the stories. (Interestingly, Baxter is also adept at micro-scale storytelling, such as his near-future solar system exploration novels.) Ring is just such a sweeping story, and it serves as proof that science fiction's golden age is far from over. If you have fond memories of Asimov and Clarke, Baxter will not disappoint you.
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Summary: Wondrous and fascinating on many levels.
Review: Well, well, well. A sequel to HG Wells' Time Machine. The main character starts out after having arrived home from his ordeal with the Eloi and the Morlocks in the future, but he is soon traveling yet again all over time and even changing the past and ending up in alternate futures! The odd abstractions we're presented with as he travels billions of years into the future are so mind-expanding its hard to come back down, and the gravity of the universe it takes place in is undeniable. I'd recommend you read it at night in as dim a light as possible to complete the feeling of swimming through space and time as on a river that Baxter's book emits.
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: Great book, wonderful ideas, and great reading, highly recommend it
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Summary: Very well done!
Review: Baxter does several wonderful things in this book. First, he does a tremendous job of continuing the tone of Wells' book. Second, he uses all the old conventions of SF Time Travel, but adds new twists to keep them entertaining. Third, he brings the book to a truly "cosmic" perspective, and actually succeeds in satisfying the reader at the end, a difficult task when the writer is attempting to show the beginning and end of Time itself. This book is a grand adventure.
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Summary: A definite must-read for any true sci-fi reader
Review: This is the first time I have ever read Stephen Baxter, and already I am anxious for more of his work. This book was probably one of--if not the--most imaginative sci-fi novels I have ever read. It starts out with the Time Traveller, determined to save Weena--the Eloi girl he left behind in the far future--taking another fateful trip into the future. But instead of a repeat of the original Wells book, but with a save-the-damsel-in-distress storyline, it turned into an epic journey through alternate histories and future worlds that are just astonishing as you read the book. It takes you to visions of alternate futures, as well as pasts, such as a sphere around the sun, a war-torn Earth of 1939, the Paleocene era of fifty-million years ago, an alternate reality with machines as the heirs of man, and finally to the most fantastic vision of an infinite universe created and ruled over by the final incarnation of the human Mind. The book closes with the Traveller being returned to his own reality so that he is able to go and save Weena in the far-off age of 800,000 years hence(I wont give away the ending). Throughout the book, Stephen Baxter gives you insights into the world of Quantum Physics, an aspect that brings the book to have a more real-world feel than some bizarre odyssey. Stephen Baxter is a true visionary. Someone who is able to see the current trends of science and incorporate them into a masterfully executed story. This book, in my opinion, is among the greatest sci-fi masterpieces of all time. The story never gets too technical, but never reaches down to the level of a child-like fantasy story. It is a story not only about time travel, but about the nature of mankind itself. but the most important thing that this book teaches you is that no matter where you are, or what you do, the future is a world of infinite possibilities and it is up to us choose the right ones throughout our lives. For who knows what the future holds? Possibilities, my friend. Possibilities, indeed.
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Summary: Tremendous and imaginative even for sci-fi.
Review: Baxter takes you on a voyage that you could not have dreamed about before this book. He takes you to the limits of human development, and then back to the beginnings of the world. The book is very detailed, and would be tedious for some readers. However, he tells a story that must be told in its entirety, and the detail is needed to set the plot.
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Summary: True to the style of Wells' original.
Review: Loved it! Just as I loved Wells' The Time Machine. True to the style of the original. The fact that the narrator tends to ramble is endearing ... it is just like the time traveler in Wells book. Loved the addition of the "Dysons Sphere". peg
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Summary: By the end of the book I didn't care about the characters
Review: Interesting premise with a few fun points but the book becomes rather dull. The author spends way to much time on trying to explain the scientific principles behind the story. Plot and character development are sacrificed to technical muble-jumble. At the end of the book, I did not care about the people in the story. This story can turn someone off unless the reader loves to hear about science.
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