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White Wolf Rediscovery Trio
Three in Time: The Winds of Time/The Year of the Quiet Sun/There Will Be Time
The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.
592 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1997
About the author
Chad Oliver
168 books20 followersSymmes Chadwick Oliver (30 March 1928–9 August 1993) was an award winning science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He was also one of the founders of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop.
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May 10, 2026
Loved these three books.
August 25, 2012
An interesting trio of time-travel novels that was sitting on my shelf. They get better as they go on:
1) The Winds of Time by Chad Oliver just barely qualifies as a time travel story, but it's more of a thoughtful version of an old-fashioned Golden Age space-opera. It has a dark subtext (all of these stories do), but with good well-rounded characters (Earthly and not).
2) The Year of the Quiet Sun by WIlson Tucker is easily the darkest and most depressing. And the most political. It does a few clever things with time travel, but the future looks awful. Thankfully, the future from 1970 wasn't quite that hellish.
3) There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson is the best of the lot, and ends with optimism, without shrinking from future horror. It's really about the time travelers as well as the shape of things to come, about how one might use time travel, and build community. It also showcases some very broad, moderate political thinking.
1) The Winds of Time by Chad Oliver just barely qualifies as a time travel story, but it's more of a thoughtful version of an old-fashioned Golden Age space-opera. It has a dark subtext (all of these stories do), but with good well-rounded characters (Earthly and not).
2) The Year of the Quiet Sun by WIlson Tucker is easily the darkest and most depressing. And the most political. It does a few clever things with time travel, but the future looks awful. Thankfully, the future from 1970 wasn't quite that hellish.
3) There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson is the best of the lot, and ends with optimism, without shrinking from future horror. It's really about the time travelers as well as the shape of things to come, about how one might use time travel, and build community. It also showcases some very broad, moderate political thinking.
April 25, 2014
Classic lesser known time travel novels. The Year of the Quiet Sun is failed near future predictions regarding an expanded Vietnam war and worsening racial conflict. The Winds of Time is about melancholic alien explorers who crash land on Earth and must use hibernation to await an advanced tech civilization developing, if the humans don't blow themselves up first. There Will Be time is personally the best with an extremely few people born with the ability to jump in time. What would most people born with that ability be like?
February 19, 2016
Great Read. I especially liked the third story - There will be Time by Poul Anderson .
It is an epic!
It is an epic!
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