Timemaster

by Robert L. Forward and Martha D Trustee

Book Overview

Billionaire industrialist Randy Hunter communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight, and explores the universe in a novel that explores the technological possibilities of the future. Reprint.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812516443
• ISBN13: 9780812516449
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Rip Roaring adventure in a time paradox

So here we have domesticated Aliens made of exotic negative matter being the basis of interstellar travel. Throw in information transfer from the future and a really bad guy and you have adventure through space and time. This book is better than a lot of Forward's work as he doesn't try to tie up all the scientific ends in an Einsteinian way. It is more like a Campbell romp or an Heinlein adventure story. I enjoyed it and couldn't put it down which I can't say about the last Forward book I read.

One of Robert Forward's Best. . .

This reviewer has noted time and time again, that Dr. Forward's novels excel in "hard science" but not so much in depth of character or development of plot. In "Timemaster" we still have the outstanding science -- with enough of an improvement in character and plot to satisfy most Sci-Fi fans.When dealing with his "neg matter" plants -- and the opportunities such creatures would provide for relatively intstaneous space and time travel, Forward continues to fill his books with life forms radically different from anything we have (or can really imagine) on Earth -- and make them believable.This one is a good read. I highly recommend it.

One of my favorite books

I have read several of Dr. Forward's books, and this is, by far, my favorite---I read it twice and am considering a third reading. Dr. Forward writes "hard" science fiction, and Timemaster is no exception, sticking closely with the known laws of physics. The concepts presented in this book are intriguing and Mr. Hunter's solution to the problem of his nemesis in a delightful surprise. Highly recommended!

fun, fun, fun!

Reading Robert Forward's books is just plain fun. Forward takes an idea and develops the hell out of it and does everything you'd want to see done plus a few things you haven't thought of. In Timemaster the key discovery is that of negmatter. The ramifications of that discovery for one very lucky entrepreneur are explored. A high velocity space drive, wormholes and time machines fall out this one discovery and Forward explores them all, within the frameworks of a somewhat juvenile plot. It is the ideas and exploration that drive this story, and I read it with a delight that I can only remember from my days of reading Campbell-era SF when stories weren't so dystopian and serious.If you like hard, idea-driven SF, you don't want to miss this one.

One of Robert's best - Paradox Paradise

From start to end an imagantive and well written sci-fi story of future science that seems like magic today. This story uses many ideas in Rob's book 'Future Magic' and demonstrates them very well. I finished this book in a couple of days - a really gripping plot with a great open end - or was it the start!?