Time Pressure
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A beautiful time-traveller from the far future appears near a hippie commune in the wintery mountains of Nova Scotia, prompting revelations and terror about the future of humanity…
"A Master!"
- Locus
“Like Heinlein in his prime, Mr. Robinson writes a crisp, tightly controlled prose about a future that is recognizably descended from today’s world, yet provocatively altered.”
- The New York Times
"If one were given the task of creating Spider Robinson from scratch, the best way to do it would be to snatch James Joyce from history, force-feed him Marx Brothers films and good jazz for the better part of a decade, then turn him loose on a world badly in need of a look at itself."
- Vancouver Sun
"Nobody's perfect. But Spider comes pretty damned close."
- Ben Bova
"Spider Robinson is the hottest writer to hit science fiction since Harlan Ellison, and he can match the master’s frenetic energy and emotional intensity, arm-break for gut-wrench.”
- The Los Angeles Times
"Spider Robinson is the Tom Robbins of the 21st century."
- John Varley
"Spider Robinson is a master storyteller…"
- Allen Steele
[Spider Robinson] "embodies the best of Sturgeon, Heinlein, and Asimov."
- David Gerrold
"Robinson's creative imagination is admirable."
- Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Life in Nova Scotia in the early '70s had just about everything your average hippie could hope for: beautiful scenery, tolerant locals, lots of other hippies and lots of drugs. So thinks Sam Meade, a guitar-playing American refugee from the Vietnam War draft, who is well on his way to becoming a hermit in his cabin, "Heartbreak Hotel.'' But all that changes when Sam discovers a beautiful naked woman asleep in his woods during a blizzard. Partly because he is an avid science fiction reader, and partly because he can find no other explanation for her behavior, Meade is convinced she is a time traveler and prepares himself and his best friend Snaker for the moment she regains consciousness. When she does awaken, Meade finds himself involved in a project that crosses time, reality, mores and gender. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, Robinson has picked up some of the threads of past works, specifically those in Mindkiller. Readers unfamiliar with Robinson's folksy narrative, meandering pace and penchant for the tangential, may weary of this story, which takes an unusually long time to start, then moves along smartly until it is slowed and ultimately killed by a somewhat long-winded attempt at tying up all the loose ends. Although Robinson's creative imagination is admirable, the execution of his ideas leaves much to be desired.
