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Contents include: Introduction; On the watchtower at Plataea by garry Kilworth; She Shall have music by Graham Charnock; Dazzle by Scott Bradfield; Waltz in Flexitime by Michael Cobley; The resurrection Man by Ian Watson; Laiken Langstrand by Gwyneth Jones; Eden Sounding by John Clute; Confluence revisited by Brian Aldiss; Getting Together by Josephine saxton; The Gift by M John Harrison; The Wish by Colin Greenland; Remaking History by Kim Stanley Robinson; Approaching Perpendicular by Ian McDonald; mars by Michael Moorcock; A Madonna of the Machine by Tanith Lee
- GenresScience Fiction
269 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1988
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Christopher Evans
122 books13 followersChristopher D. Evans also writes as Christopher Carpenter, Nathan Elliott, Robert Knight and John Lyon.
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Christopher D. Evans was born in 1951 in Tredegar and educated at Cardiff University between 1969–1972, and Swansea University 1973–4. He now lives in South London, where he teaches science full-time at a secondary school. His first novel, Capella’s Golden Eyes, was published in 1980. With Robert Holdstock, he co-edited the Other Edens Series of original science fiction and fantasy anthologies which appeared in the late 1980s. Aztec Century (Gollancz, 1993) won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 1993 and was runner-up for the Wales Book of the Year Award. Christopher also writes as Christopher Carpenter, Nathan Elliott, Robert Knight and John Lyon.
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Christopher D. Evans was born in 1951 in Tredegar and educated at Cardiff University between 1969–1972, and Swansea University 1973–4. He now lives in South London, where he teaches science full-time at a secondary school. His first novel, Capella’s Golden Eyes, was published in 1980. With Robert Holdstock, he co-edited the Other Edens Series of original science fiction and fantasy anthologies which appeared in the late 1980s. Aztec Century (Gollancz, 1993) won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 1993 and was runner-up for the Wales Book of the Year Award. Christopher also writes as Christopher Carpenter, Nathan Elliott, Robert Knight and John Lyon.
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March 9, 2016
On the Watchtower at Plataea by Garry Kilworth
A very interesting story. Time vortices, opposing time travellers and an engaging view of the siege of Plataea by the Spartans.
The story opens telling us that the group of three time travellers are unable to go further back in time than 429 BC. During the course of the story we find out more about why... though not so much about how they actually time travel. What was interesting is that the team appears to be somewhat incorporeal to the inhabitants of the 'local' time, and yet they're able to handle their own equipment.
The description of the Spartans' siege of Plataea is vivid as well as amusing - when it comes down to the role the time travellers play as perceived gods. I enjoyed the analysis of the Athenians vs the Spartans - not knowing much about that period of history, it was interesting. But more intriguing was the other group of time travellers from the past (ancient Egypt!) who appeared to have discovered the same mode of time travel, thus creating a standoff between the two time travelling groups. To the disadvantage of those who have travelled back from the future.
I don't really have much more to say about it. An interesting and somewhat amusing, vividly written story.
A very interesting story. Time vortices, opposing time travellers and an engaging view of the siege of Plataea by the Spartans.
The story opens telling us that the group of three time travellers are unable to go further back in time than 429 BC. During the course of the story we find out more about why... though not so much about how they actually time travel. What was interesting is that the team appears to be somewhat incorporeal to the inhabitants of the 'local' time, and yet they're able to handle their own equipment.
The description of the Spartans' siege of Plataea is vivid as well as amusing - when it comes down to the role the time travellers play as perceived gods. I enjoyed the analysis of the Athenians vs the Spartans - not knowing much about that period of history, it was interesting. But more intriguing was the other group of time travellers from the past (ancient Egypt!) who appeared to have discovered the same mode of time travel, thus creating a standoff between the two time travelling groups. To the disadvantage of those who have travelled back from the future.
I don't really have much more to say about it. An interesting and somewhat amusing, vividly written story.
January 9, 2012
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another good collection of decent to excellent stories from 1988, of which the only one I will single out is "Confluence Revisited" by Brian Aldiss, a sequel to his 1967 alien dictionary piece "Confluence", which was originally published in Punch and collected in The Moment of Eclipse, A Tupolev Too Far and Man In His Time, not to mention the Puffin Book of Science Fiction. The sequel, written twenty years on (and also in A Tupolev Too Far, though I had forgotten), is more reflective but still drily witty - for instance, it is explained that the Myrinian word JA can be translated as "A type of depraved underground mammal; mathematics; one's appearance on certain mornings". We've all had those, though fewer of us will have need of WAN, "A type of tortoise used in races".
another good collection of decent to excellent stories from 1988, of which the only one I will single out is "Confluence Revisited" by Brian Aldiss, a sequel to his 1967 alien dictionary piece "Confluence", which was originally published in Punch and collected in The Moment of Eclipse, A Tupolev Too Far and Man In His Time, not to mention the Puffin Book of Science Fiction. The sequel, written twenty years on (and also in A Tupolev Too Far, though I had forgotten), is more reflective but still drily witty - for instance, it is explained that the Myrinian word JA can be translated as "A type of depraved underground mammal; mathematics; one's appearance on certain mornings". We've all had those, though fewer of us will have need of WAN, "A type of tortoise used in races".
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