Crux

by Albert E. Cowdrey

Centuries ago, the Time of Troubles left Earth shattered and nearly empty. But a few survivors in Central Asia and returnees from Luna City hung on to bring the human race back to life. Now the Government of the Universe is spread out among hundreds of worlds. Genghis Khan is idolized as the Great Unifier of Humanity, and democracy is a long-forgotten notion. Old racial and religious divisions have been swept away by the rising oceans which lap around...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765310376
• ISBN13: 9780765310378
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Time Travellers Against Tyranny

This is a story about a future present totalitarian state where conformity, arrest, and torture are commonplaces. The plot revolves around the creation of a wormhole device that enables time travel...a threat to the existing order of things. What follow are multiple attempts by various persons to go back in time to prevent a war that occasions the future present police state. The characters are reasonably well-developed, though at times they border on the cartoonish. We do see a few human touches intermixed with internecine power struggles and cruelty, and the heroes are sufficiently imperfect that most readers will probably be able to relate to them. The ending gives some satisfaction, though framed and underlined by much of the tragedy that suffuses this novel. It's a good read, though not a spectacular one.