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A secret government project develops an army of 250 telepaths, but no one is prepared for their demands to live as free and equal human beings. (Amazon)Tags
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My brother-in-law has raved about the Tales of Continuing Time series, and after a few years of fruitless used book store searching, I finally broke down and bought two of the series at inflated prices through abebooks.com. This first book of the series is uneven. There's not much to the story, although several of the individual scenes are compelling, including a truly stunning car chase scene and a memorable final confrontation between the good guy and the bad guy. The protagonist Carl Castanaveras is an interestingly flawed superman, essentially serving a transitional role, bridging from a not-too-far-in-the-future post-war world into a farther-in-the-future world with mysterious time travelers, two surviving descendant telepaths, and show more a heroic hacker-thief. I assume that some combination of these characters will carry the story forward in the subsequent volumes. show less
A friend loaned me this many, many years ago and I've had a hankering to reread it (and the following volumes) but it and the others are out of print and very hard to find. I recently discovered that Moran has made a number of his books, including this one, available as editions on his blog. I downloaded them immediately and enjoyed my reread of what is actually quite a bleak book about the genetic engineering of a line of telepaths and what happens to them.
A disjointed and confusing novel about the emergance of a new genetic line of Homo Sapiens. Telepaths, who appear to be the ancestors of time travellers. Who are popping in and out of the story and making things even more confusing. Story segments were not segued well and it felt very herky-jerky. I guess this is a series, but I won't be reading any more.
This is one of the two better of DKM's books, along with "The Long Run."
The worst thing, the very WORST thing, about adding my books here, is that the list of things I need to re-read keeps getting longer and longer. The three books in this series (Emerald Eyes, The Long Run, and The Last Dancer) are in that group.
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- Emerald Eyes is dedicated to my father, Richard Joseph Moran, who is one of the best storytellers who ever lived. He taught me to read, and bought every typewriter I have ever owned, but I just got him a computer to do his w... (show all)riting and to keep track of his stocks, so I think we're even now. He has pissed me off worse and more often than any other human being who has ever lived. He is one of the very, very few people out there who cares about me even when I fuck up. I love him a lot. (Bantam Paperback dedication)
The Tales of the Continuing Time are dedicated to a whole bunch of writers - everyone that I ever read, according to one reviewer. That seems fair.
This book is dedicated to Amy Stout-Moran. She was the editor at Bantam Books who first bought this novel; she is the mother of my son and the love of my life. (QuietVision edition)
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