Title: Time of the Fox
Author: Matthew J. Costello
Publisher: ROC/Penguin USA
Year: 1990
ISBN: 0451450418
Description: 331 pages; 18 cm.
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In a strange red-tiled building located in a different Columbia University in a very
different New York City, physicists have invented a time machine, capable of
sending the "personas" of people -- though not their actual bodies -- backwards and
forwards in time. A contempory studies student, obsessed on the Beatles early history
manages to get himself sent back in time, not knowing that there was no way to
come back. Also not knowing that someone else had gone back in time, and was determined
to change history.
This is the first of a three book series, chronicling the adventures of grad student
Jim Tiber, as he starts out on an incredible adventure. What starts out with him
attempting to find out just what changed the early Beatles from a rough skiffle band
into a music powerhouse, rapidly changes into Jim having to defeat the evil
mechanizations of the other time travellers -- Stalinists who went underground
at the time of Glasnost.
Jim finds himself fighting alongside the Desert Fox, Field Marshall Rommel, then
sent to wartime Berlin to help prevent history's greatest art theft, in a dizzying
tale that goes non-stop. An excellent read.
Rating: (out of 100) 82. Decent characters, very good plot, and an interesting
scenario.
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