Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!ecl From: ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: THE EMPIRE OF TIME by Crawford Kilian Message-ID: <1176@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 13:15:51 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1176 Posted: Tue Sep 17 13:15:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 05:24:59 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.books:2312 net.sf-lovers:10116 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 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com