Thrice upon a Time
James P. Hogan,Mass Market Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Random House Publishing Group
James P. Hogan,Mass Market Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Random House Publishing Group
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345275189 (0345275187)
Publish date: February 12th 1980
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1980-11-06)The most well thought out model of time-travel I have ever seen in a novel was in Hogan's "Thrice Upon a Time". This book ascribes to the "reset" theory of world-lines; if you send a message into the past (no matter travels cross-time in this book but it doesn't seem to ...
There are two kinds of time travel works of fiction. The one were the time travel just happens and the other one were the author takes you through every step of the science and the possible paradoxes involved. This book is of the later category. The author really understands physics and logic and kn...
I'm afraid I agree with an Amazon review I saw that this would have done much better as a short story or novella. This is a work of hard science fiction, with an emphasis on hard science and not so good on the fiction. Hogan has done better--I quite liked his characters in Realtime Interrupt, but he...