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Millennium
Millennium
Author: John Varley
A group of scientists from the far future have hit upon the perfect method of moving people through time--they engineer disasters in what we call the present, and whisk the people away, forward in time, a fraction of a second before they are to die. When an investigator begins his investigation into a midair collision between two planes, he neve...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780425076743
ISBN-10: 0425076741
Publication Date: 5/1/1985
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Publisher: Berkley
Book Type: Paperback
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This book grabbed me right at the start and didn't let me go until we were done. Varley has done a great job of characterization here, and used the gimmick of time travel to tell a fun mystery-in-two-parts story. Two parts, because there's one thread of consciousness told from the perspective of a 1980s airline accident inspector, and one thread from a time-travel agent 40,000 years in the future.

Yes, this is the book that Varley wrote after the disaster of the movie of the same name; in fact the copyright is owned by MGM/UA. But where the movie was bad, this book is quite good.

The whole time I was reading it, I was thinking how much better it was than Fritz Leiber's Hugo-winning "The Big Time".


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