Saturday, December 01, 2001
There Will Be Time
by Poul Anderson
At last, a time travel story that comes up for a practical use for time travel besides setting up a bureaucracy to protect "history as we know it." (Not that I don't enjoy tales like that...) Of course, you have to wait until the end of the book to find out what it is, but that's no problem. There Will Be Time is an excellent tale concerning a man who has the ability to project himself through time and how he manages to use this talent. Well, it's more than that. We see his moral development as he interacts with the people he meets in past, present and future. In one sense, history is immutable for him, so the author is free to explore how a time traveler would shape the future rather than getting fixated on the past. All in all, it's a great novel. Even if it wasn't in a collection along with another keeper, The Year of the Quiet Sun, I would put this one on my shelf.
LibraryThing link
At last, a time travel story that comes up for a practical use for time travel besides setting up a bureaucracy to protect "history as we know it." (Not that I don't enjoy tales like that...) Of course, you have to wait until the end of the book to find out what it is, but that's no problem. There Will Be Time is an excellent tale concerning a man who has the ability to project himself through time and how he manages to use this talent. Well, it's more than that. We see his moral development as he interacts with the people he meets in past, present and future. In one sense, history is immutable for him, so the author is free to explore how a time traveler would shape the future rather than getting fixated on the past. All in all, it's a great novel. Even if it wasn't in a collection along with another keeper, The Year of the Quiet Sun, I would put this one on my shelf.
LibraryThing link
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// posted by John @ 11:41 AM 
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