- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: I Books; New edition edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743444973
- ISBN-13: 978-0743444972
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,220,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Minority Viewpoint,
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This review is from: Up the Line (Paperback)
This book deals with all the permutations, combinations, paradoxes and complications inherent in humans traveling back and forth in time. For me, it's a bit too much and I got satiated with page after page of what-ifs. Also, I was not fond of the book's major locales way back centuries ago, nor was I particularly fond of the main character, whose main concern in his time travels seemed to be centered on his crotch. Maybe it's me, but I connot recommend this book except maybe to a die-hard fan of time travel stories.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A bawdy Silverberg,
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This review is from: Up the Line (Paperback)
As best as I can remember, this is the first novel I read byRobert Silverberg. Since I was maybe 12 or 13, I was of course very intrigued by all the, ahem, fornicating bits. Of which there is a lot in this book. I hadn't run across such a combination before: sex and time travel. It certainly wasn't like _The Time Machine._ The main character (I certainly can't call him a hero) decides to join an organization that shuttles tourists back in time so they can visit famous historical events. He then screws up. Repeatedly, actually. This causes all kinds of paradoxes and problems. The ending is memorable. The only thing I will say about it is that is there no period on the last sentence of the book. Read the book and the reason for it will make perfect sense.
4.0 out of 5 stars
I'd give 4.5 stars if I could...,
By "cmb312" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Up the Line (Paperback)
It's that good, but that imperfect. It doesn't equal _Dying Inside_ (yes, I realize this comes up in every Silverberg review I write), but it is a close second. The subject matter, in terms of the protagonist's existential situation is similar.Byzantium is sheer beauty as represented by Silverberg, the student of history. Some of the longer passages of history in the tour sometimes seem tedious, but I wouldn't want them removed from the text. All the characters are well rendered, but they all seem to be suffering from a slight case of testosterone poisoning. Not too far outside the range of typical behavior for men, but I think maybe we've gotten a little milder in recent generations. This has a much tighter plot than most of my other favorite Silverberg works, and it's well done. I'm of mixed opinion on how a couple of the paradoxes were resolved. I don't think the resolutions were weak, per se, but I think that I would have interpreted some of the logic differently. The ending, by the way, is great. It has a certain amount of negativity to it that is common to Silverberg's work, but the undoing is extremely clever, and the last line makes the whole book that much more worth reading. Highly recommended and, as so often with Silverberg's longer works, saddended that it didn't win the Hugo or Nebula.
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