Millenium by John Varley

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	• Millennium John Varley Ace Trade, 1999 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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For time travel freaks

If you like movies that involve time travel (and who doesn't?) this is the book for you. I like to look for flaws in most time travel books/movies. There are usually many. Varley has written an engaging science fiction book that seems to be written with consideration taken for the critical eye of people like me. Layered over a plot that has you at the edge of your seat, Varley addresses technical aspects and consequences of time travel. I remember the old Chiffon Margarine TV commercial from the 70's ... "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Well, Varley teaches us a lesson similar to that in this book. It's not nice to fool Father Time.

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Great Time Travel Tale

I don't know why I was suprised to see this book on the shelves. A lot of great books are banged out into horrid movies, so it never occured to me to take a look at the source material for the lousy film of the same name. The characters in this story are so real that they suck you in with their narratives, making it impossible to put the book down, because you have to find out what happens. Louise and Bill make yet another time travel story sing with the kinds of details about their situations that take this from just one more story to place of its own. This is a great tale of what it takes to survive the end of mankind.

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Millenium by John Varley

One of the few science fiction novels about time travel that doesn't make my head hurt when I think about it afterward. Great characters, great plot, and one of the best exemplars of the "if this goes on" sf subgenre. And a kinda sorta happy ending, which still surprises me every time I read it.

Varley is also the author of what I think is one of the best sf short stories ever, "In the Hall of the Martian Kings," collected in The Persistance of Vision.

Not Free SF Reader

A book that has two viewpoings, the future, and the past. People from
the future have need for more people, so they look to the past, in
accident situations etc.

Some present day investigators get involved when the future types make an error, and have to come back to fix it.

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So so

I agree with the one reviewer that this is like a short story that was dragged out into a novel. There just isn't enough muscle to move the story along.

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