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Last Man Through the Gate [Kindle Edition]

Tim C. Taylor (Author), Andy Bigwood (Illustrator)
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Codrin has money, even status. A professor, no less. Not bad considering he’s only a Shreb. Until one day he loses it all, and has no choice but to gamble his family’s fate on a one-way ticket across the Gate. On the other side, in another world, he'll build a new life.

Except there is something wrong with the Gate…

Steampunk collides with time-travel to inspire this story of isolation, hope, and revelation.

At 22,000 words, this Greyhart Press novella would be about 90 pages in paperback.

“Like some hybrid of Van Vogt and Charles Harness, Tim C. Taylor surprises us with worlds at strange angles to ours, and to each other, in a delicious piece of writing which ramps up excitingly through time distortions, grief, conflict, and peril, to paradoxical revelation. An excellent and provocative read.” — Ian Watson on Last Man Through the Gate



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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 248 KB
  • Publisher: Greyhart Press (26 Sep 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B005PYXESG
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #55,409 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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Not What you expect 17 Oct 2011
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A book that keeps you reading. This started off as your average SciFi book but then things twist and turn and take you in unexpected directions. You can't stop reading because you want to know which way it's going to go next. It's a short read, not a full length novel, which is well worth the money. Try it, what have you got to lose... less than a pound. I'm off to check out his other books.
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Professor Codrin Altreanu is a Shreb persecuted by the Vengrians, with no obvious rosy future for him he decides to seek a new life in a parallel new world on the other side of the gate. Codrin plans to go first and get established before his wife Anita and their daughters followed. Unfortunately when Codin crossed the gate things started to go wrong and the gate started to malfunction. Without the gate working there was no way Codin could return and to make matters worse time was moving at a different speed to that in Jastrevetch. Codrin has various adventures mixing with others who had come through the gate and eventually was given work digging in the harbour to investigate a buried city from an earlier civilisation. When Codin managed to break through into a hangar that had laid sealed below the sea for centuries things started to look up. Codin returned to the old world but time had moved on more than he had bargained for. After more crossings through the gate Codin came back for the last time to the old world and took a path which took him to Elstow Abbey near Bedford.

Tim C Taylor writes in a relaxed but fast moving style. The characters are developed well and he pulls you into the environment with his descriptions. Unfortunately the story could have benefited by being written as a novel where there would be the opportunity to flesh out the situations. The restrictions of a novella left us with a bigger story trying to get out. Sci-fi writers have a wonderful spectrum of opportunities to expand their ideas, here TCT uses a membrane gate to travel in time to a parallel universe. I am certain that he will have other plots up his sleeve and various means of travelling to many other worlds and times. Anthony DeCosmo for example in his "Beyond Armageddon" series has 8 parallel worlds to play with. I will be waiting for Tim C Taylor to write another thrilling story which will explain how the lost city came to be under the sea and the history of the hangar and its contents.

A jolly good story that is hard to put down, more of the same please.
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By S. Horrigan TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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Codrin is a Shreb. He was a university professor, but was forced from his post during the latest round of persecution by the Vengrians. With no income and with no chance of things getting better Codrin decides to emigrate with his family through the gate to the New World. Unfortunately he is the "last man through the gate" that then malfunctions leaving him stranded from his family. Not only that but just before the gate shut down it appeared that time was running at different speeds on each side of the gate.

This is a quite reasonable short time travel/time slip style story where the time on each side of a dimensional runs at different speeds. The consequences of years passing on one side of the gate whilst only days pass on the other is nicely explored with the main character becoming an unwilling leader and ambassador for the people trapped on one side.

The story is just under 1500 Kindle locations and about an hour and a half of reading, but I have to say that I did find it a little too short, even though the author mentions in the afterword that the story has been extended from its original form. Some of the scene transitions seemed rather too sudden and some of the events just happened too fast and with too little explanation for me and there were still a lot of unanswered questions at the end.

Saying that though, I still enjoyed the story and would definitely read longer works by Tim C Taylor.

Overall: 3 stars - Actually 3.5 stars if that were possible. A reasonable read that passed the time pleasantly enough, but one that could in my opinion still be extended a little more to flesh out some really rather nice ideas.
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