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Title: The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0-8125-3519-7 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 July, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.07 (29 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not great but I liked it.
Comment: Other reviewers have either really hated this book or really loved it. I'm afraid I'm in the middle somewhere. I've read other Pohl books and remember liking them, that's why I picked this up. The characters aren't very well drawn and I didn't really care for his changing pov, especially among the various Pats. But it kept me interested enough to finish the book, and I already have the sequel. One thing I puzzeled about is that the characters don't really seem to have grasped the concept of being copies. They seem to think they are the originals when they are copies. Also, when they escape in the end, they don't seem to realize that a copy would be sent, but they would remain. Maybe the sequel will get into that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vintage Pohl - wry, dark, beautifully-written
Comment: ________________________________________
There's something strange going on at the derelict "Starlab"space
station - aka the "Starcophagus" - and Dr. Patrice Adcock is going up to
find out what's happening. Her party is kidnapped by reps of the
"Beloved Leaders" and fired off as tachyon images to a distant starbase.
It seems the Beloved are fighting a war with the Horch and want to
enlist humanity on their side.
The plot thickens when the Horch smuggle in disturbing images of
whole worlds destroyed by Beloved forces - dismissed by the Beloved
with "we merely transported them to their immortality at the
eschaton."
The Beloved run off a couple more copies of Dr. Pat for "breeding
purposes". She finds she rather likes being a triplet... but the extra copy
situation turns darker, with unsettling echoes of earlier uses of this old
and disturbing SF idea.
This is vintage Pohl - wry, dark, beautifully-written. I've seen some
unflattering reviews of this book, but this is first-rate
work,
not to be missed if you're a Fred Pohl fan - and who isn't?
Happy reading!
Pete Tillman
Rating: 3
Summary: i didn't hate it
Comment: But i didn't love it either. It has its moments, it has some interesting ideas, but what hurts it is the big chunk in the middle where they're all in the prison. that lasts for about 150 page, and it's pretty slow and uneventful. after that it picks up again and it's quite fun to read. I thought the alien was a little too childish looking (the ways it's described anyway) but I'll still read the next one just to find out what happens.
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Title: The Siege of Eternity by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0812577663 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Far Shore of Time by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0812577833 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: World at the End of Time by Fredrik Pohl ISBN: 0345371976 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 13 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: STARCHILD TRILOGY : STARCHILD TRILOGY by Pohl ISBN: 0671655582 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Annals of the Heechee by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0345325664 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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