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Works by Tim Kring

Heroes: The Complete Second Season (2008) — Creator — 191 copies
Shift (2010) 138 copies
Heroes: The Complete Series (2015) 16 copies
Dig: Season One (2016) 1 copy
Sólo para tus ojos (2012) 1 copy

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Canonical name
Kring, Tim
Legal name
Kring, Richard Timothy
Birthdate
1957-07-09
Gender
male
Nationality
USA

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I refused to watch it.
 
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Zcorbain | Dec 12, 2021 |
An interesting idea but I found the excution VERY slow and had a difficult time caring for the main character as we didn't get to know him very well. They did do a good job protraying the atomsphere of the early cold war very well.
 
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Colleen5096 | 4 other reviews | Oct 29, 2020 |
People begin to realize they have special powers (telekinesis, healing, flying, time travel, invisibility, etc.) all over the United States. One individual named Sylar wants to gather all of the powers from targeted "heroes" in order to become the most powerful human of all. He will stop at nothing to meet his goal even if it means killing these people which brings the "heroes" together to help each other while also dealing with personal problems of their own.
 
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jek73 | Nov 16, 2018 |
Shift is the first of Tim Kring’s Orpheus trilogy: a blend of science fiction, fantasy and plain old spy story, it is based on the CIA’s Ultra programme, in which they experimented with LSD during the Cold War.

Inspired by The Manchurian Candidate, the Agency hoped to perfect a mind control drug. In this story, they succeed: it is 1963, and Chandler Forrestal can both read and manipulate minds.

The book contains cameos of historical characters like Lee Harvey Oswald, J Edgar Hoover and Mafia don Sam Giancana and explains their part in the assassination of JF Kennedy.… (more)
½
 
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adpaton | 4 other reviews | Dec 3, 2010 |

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Works
9
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669
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Rating
½ 3.5
Reviews
8
ISBNs
27
Languages
4

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