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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
Blog Address: http://newsciencefictionandfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/
November 6, 2017
Historian Time-Travels To Roman Empire in
Andrew Seddon's SF Tale
A Review of
Andrew Seddon Ring Of Time (Splashdown Books, 2014)
259 pp $13.99 ISBN: 978-1-927154-38-0
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
As its sub-title indicates, this book consists of "Tales of a Time-Traveling Historian in the Roman Empire". Very little is said about the time-travel machine and the time-travel paradoxes beyond the assertion that any time-travel to the past will not change the past because it already is part of the past. The focus of the story is on what happens to the time-traveler, Professor Robert Cragg, after he is transported to various times and places in the Roman Empire to obtain information needed for a more complete historical account. Cragg is the narrator of these excursions, which are similar to those of a spy being sent "under cover" (i.e. with a false name and identity) to gather "intelligence" (i.e. information). All kinds of interesting and exciting and dangerous things happen to him during these forays, culminating in a surprise ending. And the author of this tale makes it all come alive. I do not know if time travel is possible or not, but if it is, I recommend that the agency in charge hire a writer as good as Andrew Seddon to write the reports on it!
Information on the author is available at his website andrewseddon.com
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