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"The universe has opened up to Blake Walker when he discovered that his world, our own Earth, was just one of hundred ranked side by side on alternate timelines, each more strange and wondrous than the other, all coexisting at once, and all available to Blake Walker and the few natives of those other-Earths who could break the barriers between timelines."--Page 4, cover. Blake had become a citizen of an alternate world, and learns of a plot to use the secret of time travel to loot hundreds show more of other worlds. He travels across time and space to stop it. show lessTags
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Blake Walker has been inducted into the worlds spinning operations of Vroom after his unanticipated adventures in the previous book in the series.
Assigned a routine run to check up on a project to seed a deserted world with life, Blake's also instructed to make sure that the twin daughters of Erc Rogan, head of the patrol are safe. What he finds is a nest of sedition and treachery that sees one twin stolen off-world and the other lost on an uncoded level with Blake when their shuttle home was sabotaged!
Despite being almost fifty years old, this is still quite an exciting read and while Marfy and Marva, the twins, are not the focus of the story, they still manage to have a (female) presence in the story that is quite unusual even for show more Andre Norton for that era. show less
Assigned a routine run to check up on a project to seed a deserted world with life, Blake's also instructed to make sure that the twin daughters of Erc Rogan, head of the patrol are safe. What he finds is a nest of sedition and treachery that sees one twin stolen off-world and the other lost on an uncoded level with Blake when their shuttle home was sabotaged!
Despite being almost fifty years old, this is still quite an exciting read and while Marfy and Marva, the twins, are not the focus of the story, they still manage to have a (female) presence in the story that is quite unusual even for show more Andre Norton for that era. show less
I was pretty young when I read this. I had read [b:The Zero Stone|7808485|The Zero Stone|Andre Norton|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1344700585s/7808485.jpg|1171807] and [b:Moon of Three Rings|2957310|Moon of Three Rings|Andre Norton|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1325034007s/2957310.jpg|2986816] by Andre Norton before this and really loved them. I hated this book and never read another book by Andre Norton...
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Born Alice Mary Norton on February 17, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio, she legally changed her name to Andre Alice Norton in 1934. She attended the Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve) for a year then took evening courses in journalism and writing that were offered by Cleveland College, the adult division of show more the same university. Norton was a librarian for the Cleveland Library System then a reader at Gnome Press. After that position, she became a full-time writer. She is most noted for writing fantasy, in particular the Witch World series. Her first book The Prince of Commands was published in 1934. Other titles include Ralestone Luck, Magic in Ithkar, Voorloper, Uncharted Stars, The Gifts of Asti and All Cats are Gray. She also wrote under the pen names Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston She was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and the Nebula Grand Master Award. She has also received a Phoenix Award for overall writing achievement, a Jules Verne Award, and a Science Fiction Book Club Book of the Year Award for her title The Elvenbane. In 1997 she was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She died on March 17, 2005. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Quest Crosstime
- Original title
- Quest Crosstime
- Original publication date
- 1965
- People/Characters
- Marfy Rogan; Marva Rogan; Blake Walker
- Important places
- Vroom
- Dedication
- For Richard Benyo, who first visualized the "sterile" world.
- First words
- The land repelled.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was going to be a long day or night - or whatever hour had struck now - for Vroom.
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
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- PZ7 .N82 .Q — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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