- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (31 Dec 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0812516443
- ISBN-13: 978-0812516449
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,224,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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One of the reigning masters of SF today presents a futuristic adventure in the classic mode about a billionaire industrialist, who communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight, and explores far-flung worlds filled with high-tech wonders. "A happy romp through a range of ideas about the universe and what we can do in it".--Poul Anderson.
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Dr. Robert L. Forward (www.FowardUnlimited.com) is a space scientist and businessman, lecturer, futurist, and science fact and hard science fiction writer with thirteen published books and over one hundred shorter pieces.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
From start to end an imagantive and well written sci-fi story of future science that seems like magic today. This story uses many ideas in Rob's book 'Future Magic' and demonstrates them very well. I finished this book in a couple of days - a really gripping plot with a great open end - or was it the start!?
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
One of Robert Forward's Best. . .
2 Oct 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This reviewer has noted time and time again, that Dr. Forward's novels excel in "hard science" but not so much in depth of character or development of plot. In "Timemaster" we still have the outstanding science -- with enough of an improvement in character and plot to satisfy most Sci-Fi fans.
When dealing with his "neg matter" plants -- and the opportunities such creatures would provide for relatively intstaneous space and time travel, Forward continues to fill his books with life forms radically different from anything we have (or can really imagine) on Earth -- and make them believable.
This one is a good read. I highly recommend it.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
One of my favorite books
20 Aug 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have read several of Dr. Forward's books, and this is, by far, my favorite---I read it twice and am considering a third reading. Dr. Forward writes "hard" science fiction, and Timemaster is no exception, sticking closely with the known laws of physics. The concepts presented in this book are intriguing and Mr. Hunter's solution to the problem of his nemesis in a delightful surprise. Highly recommended!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
fun, fun, fun!
9 July 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Reading Robert Forward's books is just plain fun. Forward takes an idea and develops the hell out of it and does everything you'd want to see done plus a few things you haven't thought of. In Timemaster the key discovery is that of negmatter. The ramifications of that discovery for one very lucky entrepreneur are explored. A high velocity space drive, wormholes and time machines fall out this one discovery and Forward explores them all, within the frameworks of a somewhat juvenile plot. It is the ideas and exploration that drive this story, and I read it with a delight that I can only remember from my days of reading Campbell-era SF when stories weren't so dystopian and serious.
If you like hard, idea-driven SF, you don't want to miss this one.
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