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Old 01-16-2017, 07:33 AM   #25191
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Next up: Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak. I'm pretty sure I read this years ago in paper, but it's interesting enough to continue.
It started out reasonably well. But it drifts a bit, and the ending is poor. An odd time war with no evidence that the past can actually be changed. An unconvincing and thin reason for the time war. And a completely mysterious something that is very much underplayed.

There are also some enormous plot holes.
Spoiler:
The major one being a search for a person in a particular location, but over several thousand years. And the searchers arbitrarily limit the search in a nonsensical way and miss their target.


Not his best.

Next up: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. A sequel to Alloy of Law.

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