Where Time Winds Blow
by Robert Holdstock
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'A planet where eerie time displacements, like winds, can dump alien artefacts from the past and future into now, or sweep things away from now into anywhen.''A planet that attracts both scientists and fortune hunters, rummaging among the strangenesses, risking oblivion, carrying with them their own hang-ups, desperations, odd urges and searches.'You won't easily forget this haunting, fully-realised world.' TRIBUNE.Tags
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An interesting SF story from Robert Holdstock. Where Time Winds Blow is set on the planet VanderZande and tells of a team of relic hunters - those who seek the debris from other times which is left when the wind blows. The addition of young Kris to the team is unsettling to old-timers Leo and Lena, both changed by their time on the planet and the character shifting electrical storms.
I had only read his fantasy previously and I am pleased to say that Holdstock reveals the details of his SF planet at a good pace and I liked the characters and world he created. Great ending too.
I had only read his fantasy previously and I am pleased to say that Holdstock reveals the details of his SF planet at a good pace and I liked the characters and world he created. Great ending too.
Quite an interesting adventure story!
Op VanderZandes wereld, alias Kamelios, waait de tijd van verleden naar toekomst. Leo Faulcon is lid van een onderzoeksteam onder leiding van Lena Tanoway. Zij zijn gewend geraakt aan het schouwspel dat de planeet biedt en hebben zich leren beschermen tegen de verradelijke krachten die de menselijke waardigheid voortdurend bedreigen. Door de komst van Kris Dojaan raakt Faulcon weer in de ban van de geheimzinnige tijdwind. In een roekeloze missie wil hij het geheim van Kamelios ontsluieren...
Mar 25, 2025Dutch
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On VanderZande’s World, also known as Kamelios, strange storms called fiersig can disturb moods and change personality. In addition, a peculiar valley is intermittently altered by winds which seem to project objects and locations through time. If engulfed by these time winds, people disappear. Worse, if caught up in the edge of a time eddy, only a part of you may be swept away. Human search show more parties scour the valley for artefacts revealed by the winds. The strange atmosphere of the planet has imbued their members with odd superstitions. A phantom human figure, which may or may not be a figment of the imagination, haunts the valley.
The first two sections of the book deal with the environment of this strange rift and the human society which has evolved there but in part three, after the inevitable happens, we are suddenly wrenched away to a totally different part of the planet in order for the author to indulge in philosophising through the medium of viewpoint character Leo Faulcon and to set up what is, to me, an unsatisfying ending.
The prose is occasionally Ballardian in tone but I found it too distanced. As a consequence I didn’t feel involved enough with the characters.
When Time Winds Blow rather confirms my previously heldopinion of Holdstock’s work. I’m afraid there is something about his style which does not engage me. show less
The first two sections of the book deal with the environment of this strange rift and the human society which has evolved there but in part three, after the inevitable happens, we are suddenly wrenched away to a totally different part of the planet in order for the author to indulge in philosophising through the medium of viewpoint character Leo Faulcon and to set up what is, to me, an unsatisfying ending.
The prose is occasionally Ballardian in tone but I found it too distanced. As a consequence I didn’t feel involved enough with the characters.
When Time Winds Blow rather confirms my previously heldopinion of Holdstock’s work. I’m afraid there is something about his style which does not engage me. show less
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- Canonical title
- Where Time Winds Blow
- Original publication date
- 1981
- People/Characters
- Leo Faulcon; Lena Tanoway; Kris Dojaan; Mark Dajaan; Audwyn; Allissia (show all 7); Gulio Ensavlion
- Important places
- Kamelios
- Dedication
- To Fellow Voyagers:
Chris, Garry, Chris, Chris and Andrew
T'ung Jen! - First words
- Towards dusk, five days after they had left the city, Lena Tanoway led her small team through the rugged foothills of the Ilmoroq mountains, and out onto the narrow coastal plain that bordered the Paluberion Sea.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He stepped towards them.
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