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Jud Elliott II is a failed Harvard history masters student in 2059. Bored with his job as a law clerk, he takes up a position with the Time Service as a Time Courier. After an introductory course, Jud shunts up and down the time line ("up the line" is travel into the past; "down the line" is forward
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has increased the audience at the event from the likely dozens to hundreds and even tens of thousands. Time-tour guides re-visiting the same event must also take care not to scan their surroundings too closely, lest they make eye contact with themselves leading another tour party.
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unfavorably, saying that if it were not for "the amount and kind of sex introduced" and the "long, descriptive passages on Constantinople," it "would be a short story or novelette." His review also discussed, at some length, various illogical elements in the novel's plotting.
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Jud's problems include not only stupid tourists, but also greedy and mentally unstable colleagues who attempt to cause various types of havoc with the past. He is forced to break the rules in order to patch things up without drawing the attention of the Time Patrol.
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When he meets and falls in love with the 'marvelous transtemporal paradox called Pulcheria' - his own multi-great-grandmother - Jud succumbs to the lure of the past, creates irreparable paradoxes, and faces the inescapable clutches of the Time Patrol.
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Silverberg's narrative includes some cleverly worked out details about the problems of time-travel tourism. For example, the number of tourists who over the years wish to witness the
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Silverberg's interest in the Byzantine era of Roman history is put to use with a vivid description of Constantinople during the reign of
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time travel, but only to "now-time," Jud's present of 2059) as a guide for tourists visiting ancient and medieval
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In the 1990s, a series of six books were written, set in the same fictional world as
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964
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Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964
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Index


Robert Silverberg
Ron Walotsky
Science fiction
Ballantine Books
Paperback
time travel
novel
science fiction
Robert Silverberg
counterculture of its day
Nebula Award
Best Novel
Hugo Award
Best Novel
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
Amazing Stories
paperback
Ballantine Books
Byzantium
Constantinople
Crucifixion of Jesus
Justinian
Nika riots
Algis Budrys
William F. Wu
Nick Baron
Debra Doyle
James D. Macdonald

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