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Zeitreisende Sterben Nie (2011)

by Jack McDevitt(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

340424396X (ISBN13: 9783404243969)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch

review 1: I am sorry to say that this book bored me off the bat and by page thirty I returned it to the library. The writer is to blame for this.He takes the roundabout route in telling how two friends discover that the device a dad of them left behind is actually a time travelling machine. You know the type of dad. A brilliant scientist who in his free time makes time travelling devices from computer spare parts and names them, how original, QPads.The dad has disappeared in time and the search for him is on.But instead of throwing the readers into an inspiring scene and picking up speed from there, the story starts out lackluster and drags on. I paged forward to see if it got any better, but it seems that timid exposition is Jack McDevitt's way of storytelling.No doubt this my own ... moreexperience and it doesn't help that I am not particular interested in time travelling nor in Sci-Fi. A boring book like this does not entice to read more.
review 2: I always enjoy time travel novels and this one was no exception although I thought that in some places this one got a little bit carried away. It was sometimes hard to follow all the travels through time to retrieve one of the travel devices, etc. Overall though, I did like the story which starts out at the funeral of one of the main characters, Shel, who then comes back using time travel. The story then tells how Shel came into possession of three time travel devices invented by his father and how Shel and his friend Dave end up traveling through time to try to locate his missing dad. I really enjoyed several of their adventures including trips to the library at Alexandria and their efforts to retrieve some of the lost plays of Sophocles. There were a few things that bothered me about the novel including no kind of explanation of how the time travel devices were supposed to work. Also, there seemed to be a lot of travel to times and locations that were comparatively minor in world history but no travel to see how the pyramids were built or to see first-hand the reported miracles of Christ. Anyway, overall I would still recommend this to readers of time-travel fiction. less

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