Downtiming the Night Side
by Jack L. Chalker
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NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned to a nuclear power plant - a cover for a secret project sending observers back in time. When terrorists take it over and send two of their own back to change the past, Moosic is sent in pursuit. But they are all pawns in a time game to conquer the Earth.Tags
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I read this a long, long time ago (early 90s) and it still sticks in my mind. It's time travel, but don't get any ideas that it's the time travel of Jack Finney's world. This is a very bleak, even disturbing book, but it's worth reading for the plots and characterization. more on this soon...
I don't remember much of this book other than being fairly typical Chalker with lots of body-switching. This is around the time that I started to get somewhat bored with Chalker.
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Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17, 1944. He received a B. A. degree in English from Towson University and a graduate degree in English and history from Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1978, he taught history and geography in the Baltimore public school system. He founded a publishing show more house, The Mirage Press, Ltd., which produces nonfiction and bibliographic works on science fiction and fantasy. He was the author of several science fiction series including the Well World series, the Dancing Gods series, and the G. O. D. Inc. series. He received numerous honors including the Dedalus Award in 1983, the Gold Medal of the West Coast Review of Books award in 1984, the Skylark Award in 1980, and the Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award in 1979. He died of kidney failure and sepsis on February 11, 2005. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1985
- Dedication
- To all those time travelers who came before:
H. G. Wells, Jack Williamson, Murray Leinster,
Robert A. Heinlein, Randall Garrett and Fritz Leiber
most notably; and also to the one among all the others
who inspires... (show all) my plots:
Niccolo Machiavelli - First words
- It was with mounting frustration that the computers and the experts who controlled them were well primed for nuclear defense, laser defense, outright invasion from space, and other the other exotic ways in which the enemy mig... (show all)ht inflict damage, yet not totally effective against the slingshot.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Shumb nodded. "Well, come on, Alexi. Time to march forward into the past. On the way down we'll find a squad of protectors and order them to shoot the son-of-a-bitch."
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