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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Subject: Book to avoid
Date: 17 Oct 88 14:35:15 GMT




	Time Police
	Warren Norwood

A book to avoid.  As the title tells you, somebody has discovered
time travel and set up an organisation to police history and make
sure nothing goes wrong.  But...

[mild spoiler warning]

Other than the idea, which of course has previously been used by
Poul Anderson, this book has nothing to recommend it.  The writing
is terrible; the plot looks like the result of remedial crochet
work; the characters are uniformly negligible.  The author gets
into an unresolvable plot screw-up every other chapter, and gets
out of it by having the hero black out or by changing the subject.

Save your money.  In fact, since the book has 'Volume 1' menacingly
visible on the front cover, you can save a lot of money.