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Subject: THE OTHER TIME by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing
From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ
Date: 16 Jun 86 03:14:15 GMT




		 THE OTHER TIME by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing
			      Baen, 1984, $2.95.
		      A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper

     [Some spoilers]

     Don Fielding, archaeologist, somehow steps backward in time to the era
of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.  Naturally, he meets up with Cortez and
then with Montezuma.  He spends a lot of time considering the paradoxes
involved: can he change history? what happens to his world if he does?
Unfortunately, not much is resolved along those lines.

     Reynolds apparently wrote the first draft of this before he died; Ing
finished it.  One of them put in a lot of "local color"--how the Aztecs
lived and worked, their customs and rituals, and so forth.  The science
fiction content, other than the premise itself, is rather thin.  We never
find out how Fielding went back in time, or what his interference will do to
the present (i.e., the Twentieth Century).  Basically what we have here is
an historical adventure novel.

     I'm sure I read a very similar novel over the last year or so.  That
one was an alternate history in which the Spanish arrive a few years later,
when a non-nonsense king has replaced Montezuma.  The new king promptly
wipes out the Spanish and goes on to extend his empire into Texas and
northward.  Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the novel.  Like
that one, THE OTHER TIME isn't great, but it's fun to read.  to the Spanish
conquest.


					Evelyn C. Leeper
					...ihnp4!mtgzy!ecl
					(or ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl)


From archive (archive)
Subject: THE OTHER TIME by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing
From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ
Date: 16 Jun 86 06:14:15 SDT




		 THE OTHER TIME by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing
			      Baen, 1984, $2.95.
		      A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper

     [Some spoilers]

     Don Fielding, archaeologist, somehow steps backward in time to the era
of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.  Naturally, he meets up with Cortez and
then with Montezuma.  He spends a lot of time considering the paradoxes
involved: can he change history? what happens to his world if he does?
Unfortunately, not much is resolved along those lines.

     Reynolds apparently wrote the first draft of this before he died; Ing
finished it.  One of them put in a lot of "local color"--how the Aztecs
lived and worked, their customs and rituals, and so forth.  The science
fiction content, other than the premise itself, is rather thin.  We never
find out how Fielding went back in time, or what his interference will do to
the present (i.e., the Twentieth Century).  Basically what we have here is
an historical adventure novel.

     I'm sure I read a very similar novel over the last year or so.  That
one was an alternate history in which the Spanish arrive a few years later,
when a non-nonsense king has replaced Montezuma.  The new king promptly
wipes out the Spanish and goes on to extend his empire into Texas and
northward.  Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the novel.  Like
that one, THE OTHER TIME isn't great, but it's fun to read.  to the Spanish
conquest.


					Evelyn C. Leeper
					...ihnp4!mtgzy!ecl
					(or ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl)