The Depths of Time (Bantam Spectra Book) - Softcover

Allen, Roger MacBride

 
9780553378115: The Depths of Time (Bantam Spectra Book)

Synopsis

When ships approaching a crippled planet are set upon by mysterious attackers, Anton Koffield of the Chronological Patrol investigates and finds himself stranded eighty years in the future and accused of destroying an entire planet. Original.

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About the Author

Roger MacBride Allen is the author of seventeen novels and a number of short stories. He lived in Brazil for some years but now makes his home in Maryland with his wife and young son.

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he essence when you're stranded in the future.

Humanity is running out of time....

The settled universe is filled with terraformed worlds linked by timeshafts--temporal wormholes in deep space. These timeshafts are the only way to travel the vast distances between the stars....

As passengers and crew are placed in cold sleep, their ships spend decades crossing the interstellar void--traveling the wormholes and arriving at their destinations just days after leaving home. The Chronologic Patrol is charged with guarding these timeshaft wormholes and preventing time paradoxes at all costs. But one critical mission ends in disaster, turning Anton Koffield, captain of the Upholder, into a dark legend....As ships carrying relief supplies to a crippled planet approach a timeshaft, they are mercilessly set upon by mysterious attackers--their crews are murdered, the sanctity of time itself is at risk. In response, Koffield is forced to do the unthinkable: He m

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ISBN 10:  0553574973 ISBN 13:  9780553574975
Publisher: Bantam Books, 2001
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