The Eighty-Minute Hour A Space Opera Author:Brian Wilson Aldiss World War III is coming to an end, but the real chaos is just beginning. Nuclear warfare during the conflict has given rise to a disturbance in the fabric of space and time. Time-turbulences run rampant, sending whatever is caught in their trap to different times and locations. Survivors find themselves in the past, present, or future -- or on o... more »ther planets. Leaders across the globe, as well as an advanced AI system, are all vying to learn as much as possible about these time anomalies -- and exploit them as best they can. But the disappearance of a mega-industrialist could have some answers . . .
Meanwhile, a band of heroes embarks on a perilous quest in an alternate world of swords and sorcery. A mad scientist is wreaking havoc on Mars. And just about everyone is bursting whimsically into song. Who knows if the mayhem will ever subside . . .« less