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Loading... The time traders (1958)by Andre Norton (Author)
None.  zeborah | Jun 6, 2013 |  baen ebook romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 | I don't really like Ross Murdock - he's a rather nasty person (with good reason, but still). On the other hand, he has excellent adventures. Recruited out of court, hauled along on a back-time trip that turned unexpectedly nasty, heading out again on a harder trip that got even worse... He's funny when Ashe reduces him to a boy again (rarely). And his desire to have Ashe respect him is amazingly transparent to the reader, though it's never explicitly stated. His stubbornness is exactly what's needed to produce the best possible result, from the Project's point of view...but I still don't like him much. Good but not excellent story. (  ) jjmcgaffey | Jun 18, 2012 | Entertaining but dated time travel story. (  ) salimbol | Mar 16, 2012 | Ross Murdock beats a jail sentence by volunteering for something called Operation Retrograde. He doesn’t care what it might be; he’s planning to skip out the first chance he gets. But he has to rethink his plans when he’s hustled off to a secret polar base filled with a few very strangely attired personnel. In the last quarter of the twentieth century the cold war has shifted its focus from space travel to time travel, and Ross is about to be sent 4,000 years into the past to find out what the Reds are up to, and the source of their newly acquired super gadgets. (  )1  MaowangVater | Nov 2, 2011 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
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There was, if I recall correctly, approximately one woman in the whole novel, which is quite a feat considering the range of small communities Our Hero travels through willingly or not; a greater range of races were included even though (England/Europe being chosen as the playground of the novel) they didn't feature for the greater part of the story.
A bit action-adventurey for my tastes, and the aliens' motives were obscure, but all-in-all perfectly readable. (