Timemaster - Softcover

Forward, Robert L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812516443 ISBN 13: 9780812516449

Publisher: Tor Books, 1993

Synopsis

Billionaire industrialist Randy Hunter communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight, and explores the universe in a novel that explores the technological possibilities of the future. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Robert L. Forward (www.FowardUnlimited.com) is a space scientist and businessman, lecturer, futurist, and science fact and hard science fiction writer with thirteen published books and over one hundred shorter pieces.

From Kirkus Reviews

Juvenile exercise in gee-whiz folderol from the physicist and author of Dragon's Egg and The Flight of the Dragonfly. Young, diminutive industrialist Randy Hunter has four ambitions: to be the best horseman in the world, to become the richest and most important man in the solar system, to explore the stars, and to live forever. The one cloud on his horizon is politician Oscar, Randy's drug-addicted boyhood rival, now a spiteful opponent of Randy's grandiose dreams. Sure enough, thanks to Randy's development of orbiting linear accelerators to hurl goods and people to and from the planets, he soon becomes the richest and most important, etc. Then, after one of his planetary exploration teams discovers a Silverhair, a sort of talking space plant that's composed of negative matter, Randy's scientists and technologists are able to develop interstellar travel, both by ship and by space-warp. Then, since (how did you guess?) he's going to achieve all his ambitions, he wins the International Horseman of the Decade award--in between trips to nearby stars (oh, yes, he's married to a beautiful and understanding wife, whom he wooed away from Oscar, and has two wonderful children, too). All this--and Randy has yet to invent time travel, defeat Oscar, who tries to catch him in a time-trap, and, of course, bring back the secret of immortality from the future. Stuffed with speculations and scientific projections, most of them pretty far-fetched, held together by a footling narrative that would probably dissatisfy the average ninth grader. As for the ideas content, then: heady and furiously energetic if none too probable. Otherwise: hogwash. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812516443
• ISBN 13: 9780812516449
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320