The Far Shore of Time

***Spoiler Alert***
Like the other volumes of the Eschaton Sequence, The Far Shore of Time is mistitled. The series is not about doomsday, the distant future, or time travel but about alien abduction and the effects of creating multiple copies of individuals. In Far Shore, a copy of Dan Dannerman must escape from an alien prison, find some allies, return home, straighten out his love life, and save the Earth. Along the way, there is plenty of snark aimed at human and alien bureaucracies and their minions.

While this book was interesting enough to keep me reading to the end, and fast-paced enough to overlook some of the rough spots like Dannerman's longings for a copy, any copy, of his cousin Pat to love, I have one major complaint. While this books comes to a satisfactory conclusion for *a* book in the series, it does not work as the conclusion of the series itself. This is the Eschaton Sequence after all. To paraphrase an old commercial, "Where's the Eschaton?" The idea that two alien races are fighting for control of the end of time, when everyone who ever died will live again, is the most interesting aspect of this series, and all we get at the end of the book is the idea that "the fight will go on" against one or both of the alien show more races. It makes me think there were more books planned that were never written and/or published. show less