The Caltraps of Time

Masson, David I.

ISBN 10: 0450029999 / ISBN 13: 9780450029998

Published by New English Library, 1976

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Tanned pages, some wear to cover edges, creased spine and cover, some staining to front cover, rubbed hinges, dealer stamp on front endpaper.

Seller Inventory # 4197

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Caltraps of Time
• Publisher: New English Library
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0450029999
• ISBN 13: 9780450029998
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Gordon C. Davies
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Time Travel

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Synopsis

"[David I. Masson] began publishing sf with "Traveller's Rest" for NEW WORLDS in 1965; his fiction, including this extraordinarily intense study in the distortion of PERCEPTION, was assembled in _The Caltraps of Time_ (coll 1968), which single volume established his strong reputation as a writer of vigorously experimental, vivid, often scientifically sound stories. Notable among them, and reflecting his close and informed interest in LINGUISTICS, were "Not so Certain" (1967) and the brilliant TIME-TRAVEL story "A Two-Timer" (1966), told entirely in language appropriate to 1683, the year from which the inadvertent time traveller is whisked into the future. Each of DIM's stories seems to be a solution to some cognitive or creative problem or challenge ..." (John Clute, _The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction_)