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Another book
Posted Aug 21, 2002
'A Dangerous Road'- Kris Nelscott
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Ratings
Posted Aug 16, 2002
I've yet to think of anything terribly interesting to write about here. 
I tend to find most of my excitement through books, movies, tv, music, etc. So, I thought I'd put down things that had passed through my brain lately, and give it a smiley rating. If you're at all familiar with your smileys you should be able to figure out what I thought of them. If you're not familar with smileys just go to the smiley page. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/Smiley
Disclaimer: These are my opinions only. Feel free to disagree.
Books:
'The depths of time'- Roger MacBride Allen
'K-PAX II- On a beam of light'- Gene Brewer
'Q-Squared'- Peter David
(Have read this before. It's still good)
Movies:
'Frequency' starring Dennis Quaid
TV:
Mutant X
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31 July 2002
Posted Jul 31, 2002
I finished reading a fantastic book the other day. ‘The Depths of Time’ by Roger MacBride Allen. A great science fiction novel.
Man has spread out across the galaxy, settling on terraformed worlds. Faster than light travel isn’t possible, but they have gotten around it by using timeshafts. Timeshafts are ingenious. As an example; a ship will travel 50 years ‘uptime’ with its crew in cold sleep. The captain is then woken to pilot the ship through a timeshaft, which takes them back in time (downtime)100 years. The ship then travels a further 50 years ‘uptime’ and arrives at its destination only a few days or weeks after it left.
The chronologic patrol guards these timeshafts, so they cannot be misused. Their main mission is not to let anything from the future go back and contaminate the past time line.
Things get tricky when some intruders come uptime through the timeshaft, killing the crew of the CP ship at one end. They then try to go back, so the commander of the other CP ship is forced to permanently close the timeshaft, stranding his crew almost 80 years into the future. The commander’s name, though he did everything right, becomes cursed because he closed the shaft. This is only the beginning, of a much longer and more intriguing story.
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