- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Del Rey; First THUS edition (Mar 29 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345413814
- ISBN-13: 978-0345413819
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"Time is mine. I will not share it."
--Kaffer
An insanely evil genius, Kaffer escapes from the future by hijacking a state-of-the-art time machine. His mission: destroy all natural timejumpers and time-travel technology so he alone can become the King of Time--with the power to possess infinity and control the fate of the world.
But opposition comes in the form of a Kansas couple, Maude and Lucas Hawthorn; their far-thinking friends from the future, the Whispers; and an inventor who creates the building blocks of time-travel technology. It's a race to the finish, as Kaffer darts through time in his megalomaniacal quest to alter the past and eliminate all traces of the Hawthorns and their allies.
If the Hawthorns lose, the world will end as they know it . . .
--Kaffer
An insanely evil genius, Kaffer escapes from the future by hijacking a state-of-the-art time machine. His mission: destroy all natural timejumpers and time-travel technology so he alone can become the King of Time--with the power to possess infinity and control the fate of the world.
But opposition comes in the form of a Kansas couple, Maude and Lucas Hawthorn; their far-thinking friends from the future, the Whispers; and an inventor who creates the building blocks of time-travel technology. It's a race to the finish, as Kaffer darts through time in his megalomaniacal quest to alter the past and eliminate all traces of the Hawthorns and their allies.
If the Hawthorns lose, the world will end as they know it . . .
About the Author
Dan Parkinson is the author of The Whispers (Book One of The Gates of Time) and the Timecop novels (Viper's Spawn, The Scavenger, and Blood Ties) as well as many westerns and a number of successful TSR fantasy novels.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Slipping a little,
By DPWally "dpwally" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Faces of Infinity: Book 2 of THE GATES OF TIME (Mass Market Paperback)
As in the first book, the author illustrates a theory of time travel by having the reader experience it. Since the theory was established in "The Whispers", "Faces of Infinity" is free to add to it, which it does in an intriguing fashion. The pseudo-science remains internally consistent, so I'm willing to extend it poetic license to deviate from actual science.The overall plot is basic, it involves a villian and his henchmen versus various heros, attempted heros, people who think they're heros, well-meaning folk who tried their best, and people who have no idea what's going on. The author continues to have fun with the possibilities of time travel and absurd incidents with a wayward tractor-trailer. The characters, weak and 2-dimensional in the first book, have slipped further. They're not believeable as individuals or even as named reference points. There's a catastrophe elsewhere in the world (in the present); no casualties are mentioned but I have to assume millions or billions are dead. The narrative mentions the event in passing, the characters seem not to notice it. Inconceivable!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Slipping a little,
By DPWally "dpwally" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Faces of Infinity: Book 2 of THE GATES OF TIME (Mass Market Paperback)
As in the first book, the author illustrates a theory of time travel by having the reader experience it. Since the theory was established in "The Whispers", "Faces of Infinity" is free to add to it, which it does in an intriguing fashion. The pseudo-science remains internally consistent, so I'm willing to extend it poetic license to deviate from actual science.The overall plot is basic, it involves a villian and his henchmen versus various heros, attempted heros, people who think they're heros, well-meaning folk who tried their best, and people who have no idea what's going on. The author continues to have fun with the possibilities of time travel and absurd incidents with a wayward tractor-trailer. The characters, weak and 2-dimensional in the first book, have slipped further. They're not believeable as individuals or even as named reference points. There's a catastrophe elsewhere in the world (in the present); no casualties are mentioned but I have to assume millions or billions are dead. The narrative mentions the event in passing, the characters seem not to notice it. Inconceivable! |
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