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Summary: Long winded!!
Review: Everyone raved about The Time Ships so I thought I'd better find out what the fuss was about. What a let down. 600 pages of going from one end of the time continuum to the other, with not much happening in between. To be honest, I was bored, and when I got to the end I realised that I hadn't really been reading the last 100 pages or so. And how is it that a guy who invented time travel before Wilbur and Orville worked out how to get men even a couple a feet off the ground can be so thick? Perhaps Baxter is a genuius. Maybe I just don't like HG Wells, and Baxter just did him to a tee.
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Summary: I enjoy the complexity of time travel books--this one worked
Review: Some books work on this subject matter, most don't. I also recommend Robert Doherty's THE ROCK. One of the most interesting and intriguing books I've read this year.
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Summary: Flawed, but amazing
Review: I didn't understand why there were morlocks in the alternate world, & the war segment didn't fit somehow. The detached 19th century style was a little difficult to get back into when I took a break. Regardless this is one of the most rigorously scientific science fiction books I've ever read. Also I don't remember it having any sex or language. It made me want to re-read "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. I thought the Time Traveller was pretty aware for a Victorian. I've always been opposed to posthumous sequels, but this novel works on its own merits. If you think all good fiction is about characters read something else. In fact when characters died it made me say "I wonder how that works" instead of "oh, how sad". Still if you like science in your science fiction read this.
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Summary: This book makes you think the story teller was realy there !
Review: After reading The Time Machine by H.G.Wells I wanted more!! so I searched for many years and finaly, This awsomely wonderful. " What I would surely call a positive part two." I was thrilled with the new Morlock and ther frienship bond that was created the Profesor and his traviling companion. I defenitly want to here more of there adventures More, More,More ..... Thank you Mr. Baxter.
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: I thought it got a bit long-winded in the middle, and was a bit techy for a Dick winner, but in all, a clever, enjoying read.
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Summary: BUY IT NOW!
Review: Fantastic! So chock-full of cool ideas you simply won't put it down. Baxter has skillfully kept all the time-traveling jaunts from becoming too confusing -- and done everything I've ever wanted to see in a time-travel story! Baxter has a terrific grasp on cosmological notions, and really makes the reader feel how both insignificant and significant an individual can be at the same time. Ideas and settings that most writers would use for an entire book are just short passages in Baxter's book -- he's always got more up his sleeve. Bye now -- I'm off to buy his other books now. I'm hooked.
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Summary: Good, but why is the time traveler so stupid?
Review: I was impressed with this book. First off, I thought Baxter wouldn't be able to keep up the H. G. Wells writing style, but he deffinately pulled it off. Also, the demented plot takes the time traveler to fantastic places spaning epochs that are increadibly imaginitive. The main thing I found annoying was: Why the heck is this genius time traveller so DUMB?! I mean, I would have figured out some of the stuff that he was baffled by, and I don't think I could build a time machine if someone gave me some Plattnerite!
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Summary: A very good approach to time-travel.
Review: This book approach to Time Travel is one of the Best I've ever read. This moves away from the "everything is written" approach and gives you an excelent explanation about "paradoxes". As other Baxter's books (and I really like his books) the plot is a little subdued to the explanations and science. I used to think that Asimov's "Eternity Inc." was one of the best books on time travel, but I would rank it second to this one (based on concepts and being "hard Sci-Fi", I hope I am not starting a polemic here). This book falls on the second cathegory, and it's
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Summary: One of the top 2-3 sci-fi books I've read
Review: Reading the notes of the people below who didn't like it, I guess I can understand why they would feel that way: The plot is really just a series of (almost accidental) adventures of the main character traveling though time, finding himself in the strangest of places under the strangest of circumstances. As much attention is paid to descriptions of the places and the circumstances surrounding their arrival there (and what they see through the windows of the time machine as they travel through time) as is to the plot itself. I guess you could say it doesn't have much of a plot at all. However, there is one aspect to the plot which kept going through my mind as I read the whole story . . . WHEN IS HE GOING TO GET BACK TO HIS OWN TIME (and timeLINE)?!?!? That in itself made the book for me, and the descriptions of the places made the book even better. This ranks up with the best of the best in hard science fiction. However, if you aren't a HUGE hard science fiction fan, I can see why someone might get bored with it, or perhaps find it absurd. Keep in mind, however, that some of the absurdity is what makes the book so good (not to mention the imagination). As for the morlocks being different from H.G. Well's creatures, they were SUPPOSED to be different - a result of the time traveler's first trip. I guess I had a little bit of a hard time imagining the morlock (the traveller's companion) just happening to know so much about the places and things they were seeing, but I could see why Baxter needed to do that. It's just one of those "suspend disbelief" things the reader of any piece of fiction often has to do to understand the story.
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Summary: A thrilling ride to both ends of time and space!
Review: Baxter has managed to build on Wells' premise, a novel that has as its scope no less than the entirity of space and time! Back to--and through--the Big Bang to what lies beyond; into the future on fragmenting timelines to follow human evolution to its ultimate end and purposes. An excellent read!
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