The Time-Swept City
by Thomas F. Monteleone
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YOU ARE an astronaut turned into a machine, and now searching for your stolen humanity... a woman volunteering to be frozen for a hundred thousand years to await the return of your lover... a survivor of a holocaust stumbling over a nightmare landscape toward a dream-like city shimmering in the distance... a new kind of soldier beginning to doubt his mission as an infinitely powerful instrument of destruction... a man hunted by computers through the streets, buildings, and sewers of a vast show more and murderous metropolis... an explorer returning over time and space to the horror that he still thinks of as home... YOU ARE an inhabitant, a slave, a victim, an enemy, a witness of... THE TIME-SWEPT CITY. show lessTags
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I'm sure that this book had a coherent narrative in the author's mind but that narrative failed to make it to paper. One more tale of an interesting concept suffering from poor execution and a rather generic man vs machine plot.
What the book lacks in originality of expression, it makes up for in so many diversions and excursions that would make even Philip Jose Farmer look up from his bong long enough to frown.
What the book lacks in originality of expression, it makes up for in so many diversions and excursions that would make even Philip Jose Farmer look up from his bong long enough to frown.
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Tom Monteleone is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen popular novels. He has also edited 14 science fiction and horror anthologies
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- Canonical title
- The Time-Swept City
- Original title
- The Time-Swept City
- Original publication date
- 1977-10
- People/Characters
- Chicago
- Important places
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Epigraph
- Cities have a life of their own.
Like all living things they grow
to their own patter
not ours.
--Frederik Pohl - Dedication
- For Natalie...
Again and Always - First words
- Link had tasted the universe.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But it was too late...
- Blurbers
- Ellison, Harlan; Zelazny, Roger
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.25)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
