false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171467288m/100379.jpg 100379 7 According to Larry Niven, time travel is logically impossible--sheer fantasy. So when time-agent Svetz heads back from polluted future Earth in search of extinct animals, he tends to sideslip into fantastic, fictional worlds. In short stories collected in <I>The Flight of the Horse</I> (1973), his quests for a horse, a Gila monster, and a whale unearthed a unicorn, a dragon, and Moby-Dick. Less comic but equally daft, <I>Rainbow Mars</I> combines both space and time travel to explore Mars in the deep past, before it was a dead world. Naturally it's populated by a menagerie of warring fictional Martians from Edgar Rice Burroughs (multi-armed sword-wielders), H.G. Wells (tentacles and heat rays), and less familiar authors. Svetz and companions are soon in big trouble. Complications include a gigantic alien tree extending into Mars's orbit--an organic version of the space elevator in Arthur C. Clarke's <I>The Fountains of Paradise</I>. One of these useful "beanstalks" on Earth seems a highly desirable facility, but there are hidden drawbacks, and most of the multiplying timelines lead to disaster. This is fun for experienced SF readers who can follow the in-jokes and the switchback ride through tangled alternative histories. The earlier, even funnier Svetz stories are included as a bonus. <I>--David Langford, Amazon.co.uk</I> 1301173 1999 Rainbow Mars total:155|5:8|4:35|3:68|2:33|1:11| 155 461 226 14 2023736 0312867778 9780312867775 13 2 2.97 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2023736.Rainbow_Mars 3 0 false Wed Jan 07 02:28:19 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 02:28:25 -0800 2009
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