- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Ballantine Books (Mm) (July 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345351673
- ISBN-13: 978-0345351678
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 2 x 1.3 cm
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Damn the torpedos and full speed ahead!
18 April 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This particular story takes a silly idea and does the only appropriate thing with it, which is to push it as far as it will go. The timid lose to the bold in a case such as this; caution makes such a tale unreadable. In fact, the only problem with this book is its timing; its publication just as the Cold War begins to collapse makes its mindset- and the casual assumption of complete human extermination from nuclear war- seem outdated.
But that's not the focus of the story. The focus of the story is the time machine, and the larcenous young composer who wants to be famous, mostly by stealing bits and pieces of other's work. The real pity of it is that Justin Pope has some measure of talent, but not quite enough; he wants to be famous in his own lifetime, and when he is still young, though his talent obviously needs years of quiet to fully develop. So he steals the time machine, drops his scientific helper in the past, and manages to kidnap and cure one of the musical geniuses of the past, so as to install him far in the future and claim his music as his own.
Straightforward so far. But- and here's where the fun creeps in- he's not the only one who can indulge in a bit of theft. The time machine, music, and even identity of certain people gets swapped around, tangling up in a bizarre manner that ought to end up in murder but never does. And the title makes more and more sense as the story progresses and couples pair off... but more I won't say. This is a romp more than anything, a fun little story based on "what if?" Even better, it goes on to "and then what? And then?" What a fun little read.
But that's not the focus of the story. The focus of the story is the time machine, and the larcenous young composer who wants to be famous, mostly by stealing bits and pieces of other's work. The real pity of it is that Justin Pope has some measure of talent, but not quite enough; he wants to be famous in his own lifetime, and when he is still young, though his talent obviously needs years of quiet to fully develop. So he steals the time machine, drops his scientific helper in the past, and manages to kidnap and cure one of the musical geniuses of the past, so as to install him far in the future and claim his music as his own.
Straightforward so far. But- and here's where the fun creeps in- he's not the only one who can indulge in a bit of theft. The time machine, music, and even identity of certain people gets swapped around, tangling up in a bizarre manner that ought to end up in murder but never does. And the title makes more and more sense as the story progresses and couples pair off... but more I won't say. This is a romp more than anything, a fun little story based on "what if?" Even better, it goes on to "and then what? And then?" What a fun little read.
Music, Tech, and highest-stakes finance...
29 July 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A time travel tale featuring dazzling dispute among
three couples... for the control of trime-travel.
Music, art, finance and tech all are tokens of
this game, in a story permeated with mischievous humour...
Truly, my alltime-favourite among time-travel books!
three couples... for the control of trime-travel.
Music, art, finance and tech all are tokens of
this game, in a story permeated with mischievous humour...
Truly, my alltime-favourite among time-travel books!
music, time travel and human indecency
27 Oct 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
a very entertaining and thoughtfukl treatment of time travel, music and the way that culture views thing over time. the cast includes a plagarist musician, a murderous engineering genius and a very wellknown 19th century composer well worth reading
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