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%T Red Iron Nights
%A Glen Cook
%I ROC
%D September 1991
%O paperback, US$3.99
%P 270
%G ISBN 0-451-45108-2
Garrett, that tough-guy P.I. in a city full of elves, trolls, mages,
dwarves, ratmen, dwarves and corruption, is back. Maybe he shouldn't be; the
previous books (beginning with Sweet Silver Blues) were a lot of
fun, but this one reads as though Cook was just going through the motions.
Let's hope the series either improves or dies a quiet death.
%T A Bridge of Years
%A Robert Charles Wilson
%I Doubleday
%D September 1991
%O trade paperback, US$12.00
%P 333
%G ISBN
A corridor built by a human-descended superrace of the far future
stretches back through time, connecting eras and places in their
remote past. A soldier from the nightmare 21st century accidentally
breaks into one of the way stations and goes on the ultimate AWOL,
fleeing to the late 1950s. The way station, vacant, an
ordinary-appearing house in a small town, is left vacant and rented in
1989 by an ordinary man fleeing no less scarifying conflicts of his
own...and that's when the real story begins. Wilson explores as no
other author has what the pyschology of the time traveler, and what it
might really mean to be in love with the past. Despite a fair amount
of violence and action, this tale has a gentle, humanistic core. It's
well-written enough to incline one to tolerance for the dismissive way
the author treats the potential for temporal paradox. Recommended,
though not at trade-paperback prices.
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