- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Del Rey; reprint edition (Aug 3 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345413822
- ISBN-13: 978-0345413826
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 23 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"COMPLEX AND . . . INTERESTING."
--Science Fiction Chronicle
--Science Fiction Chronicle
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The time has come . . . to reinvent time.
Oklahoma native Ben Culver possesses a sudden, strange power. Much like a sleepwalker, without awareness or intent, he begins to travel through time--into the past, into the future, and into serious trouble. Maude and Lucas Hawthorn, owners of an exclusive time travel agency in Kansas, hope to find Ben fast, before someone turns the sacred space-time continuum into cosmic Swiss cheese.
For Ben has unwittingly provided the means for the evil genius Kaffer to escape from his pyramid prison and accomplish his diabolical goal: wipe out the Whispers--the Hawthorns' time-jumping friends who are searching for their origins back in the very roots of time. And it is there, deep in time, that the Hawthorns must discover the secret of Ben's uncanny abilities, stop the timemonger, and save the world from the lost realities and alternate universes that threaten to end it forever . . .
Oklahoma native Ben Culver possesses a sudden, strange power. Much like a sleepwalker, without awareness or intent, he begins to travel through time--into the past, into the future, and into serious trouble. Maude and Lucas Hawthorn, owners of an exclusive time travel agency in Kansas, hope to find Ben fast, before someone turns the sacred space-time continuum into cosmic Swiss cheese.
For Ben has unwittingly provided the means for the evil genius Kaffer to escape from his pyramid prison and accomplish his diabolical goal: wipe out the Whispers--the Hawthorns' time-jumping friends who are searching for their origins back in the very roots of time. And it is there, deep in time, that the Hawthorns must discover the secret of Ben's uncanny abilities, stop the timemonger, and save the world from the lost realities and alternate universes that threaten to end it forever . . .
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2.0 out of 5 stars
One book too many,
By DPWally "dpwally" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Paradox Gate: Book Three of THE GATES OF TIME (Mass Market Paperback)
Number two of a trilogy is usually weaker than number one, but often the third installment reaches new heights. Not this time, the author should have stopped at two.The time travel theory, invented in "The Whispers" and expanded in "Faces of Infinity", is scrambled to poetic incoherence in "Paradox Gate". The pseudo-science of the first two books is no longer consistent, so I revoke poetic license. To his credit, the author makes it clear that none of the characters fully understand the revised theory, though that doesn't stop them from explaining it to each other in great detail. The plot is nonsensical. The characters, never a strong point in this series, have deteriorated further - primarily because the author has finally made an attempt to flesh them out. Nevertheless, I recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed the first two. It continues a narrative that remains intriguing and presents additional amusing anomolies.
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2.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
One book too many,
By DPWally "dpwally" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Paradox Gate: Book Three of THE GATES OF TIME (Mass Market Paperback)
Number two of a trilogy is usually weaker than number one, but often the third installment reaches new heights. Not this time, the author should have stopped at two.The time travel theory, invented in "The Whispers" and expanded in "Faces of Infinity", is scrambled to poetic incoherence in "Paradox Gate". The pseudo-science of the first two books is no longer consistent, so I revoke poetic license. To his credit, the author makes it clear that none of the characters fully understand the revised theory, though that doesn't stop them from explaining it to each other in great detail. The plot is nonsensical. The characters, never a strong point in this series, have deteriorated further - primarily because the author has finally made an attempt to flesh them out. Nevertheless, I recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed the first two. It continues a narrative that remains intriguing and presents additional amusing anomolies. |
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