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baron_waste August 24 2018, 08:00:28 UTC


Reading this, I fused the two and recalled a book you might like:  Gérard Klein’s Le temps n’a pas d’odeur.

• Ils étaient sept qu’Altaïr avait délégués dans le temps.
• Sept, entraînés à toutes les formes de combat, porteurs de toutes les armes concevables, virtuellement invincibles.
• Sept, orgueilleux et inquiets, qui maintes fois avaient déjà affronté ensemble le Passé et ses pièges.
• Leur mission? Stériliser un monde. Changer l’Histoire d’Ygone, petite planète, grande menace.
• Leurs adversaires? Ils devaient les découvrir dans un miroir.
• Leur destin? La défaite…

The Federation maintains its stability by a political Minority Report effort:  Supercommando time teams are sent back to neutralize, prevent rebellions, à la The Terminator.  Problem is, these rebellions are increasingly likely to happen so the Federation’s very existence is becoming increasingly unlikely, so such interventions are becoming more and more and more frequent, patch, patch, patching, holding it together as it all falls apart…  Until the very fabric of Time starts to come unraveled.

https://strangerthansf.com/scans/klein-daybeforetomorrow.jpg

Plus, it has one of the coolest names, the inventor of time travel:  Arcimboldo Urzeit.   [‘Zeit’ is German for “Time.”]

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jkahane August 24 2018, 16:33:51 UTC
It actually sounds like a very familiar book to me, but since it dates back to 1977, I can't remember whether I actually read it back then or not.

Anyway, thanks for the link. May have to add it to my already way to large TRQ. :)

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