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Timeliner Trilogy #3
Vestiges Of Time
ALIENS HAVE MEDDLED WITH TIME, CREATING COUNTLESS PARALLEL WORLDS IN THE PROCESS.
But as Eric Mathers desperately skudds through a dazzling array of Timelines, they crumble around him. The prophecy of a catastrophe in the far future is coming true now!
Eric's survival depends on two things. He must follow the directions of a phantom force known only as the Shadowy Man. And he must travel to a parallel Earth in search of a true time machine. But to obtain it Eric becomes the general of an army—of his own clones. And that is only the beginning...
But as Eric Mathers desperately skudds through a dazzling array of Timelines, they crumble around him. The prophecy of a catastrophe in the far future is coming true now!
Eric's survival depends on two things. He must follow the directions of a phantom force known only as the Shadowy Man. And he must travel to a parallel Earth in search of a true time machine. But to obtain it Eric becomes the general of an army—of his own clones. And that is only the beginning...
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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About the author
Richard C. Meredith
16 books8 followersRichard Carlton Meredith was an American writer, illustrator and graphic designer, best known as the author of science fiction short stories and novels including "We All Died at Breakaway Station" and The Timeliner Trilogy.
Meredith's works give unfamiliar twists to many familiar SF themes: A human Galactic empire and its struggle with a non-human rival (We All Died at Breakaway Station) or with independence-seeking human subjects (The Sky Is Filled with Ships); a theocratic dictatorship, nuclear and biological warfare, and the effort to change history by time travel (Run, Come See Jerusalem!); or the "sidewise" travel into alternate histories and the struggle for control over a multitude of divergent timelines (The Timeliner Trilogy).
Meredith's protagonists tend to be highly motivated and devoted people, wholeheartedly taking up Earth- or Universe-shaking causes to which they give their all - and often discovering that they had been duped into serving an evil cause, or that an action taken with the best of intentions actually makes a bad situation worse. A reader opening a Meredith book can by no means count on a happy ending - indeed, some of the books can be classed as dystopias.
In the preface to Breakaway Station, before the reader had yet met the protagonists, Meredith already tells that all of them would eventually die heroic deaths comparable to those of Leonidas and his three hundred at the Battle of Thermopylae — and indeed, the book duly comes to precisely that ending.
Meredith died unexpectedly on 8 March 1979, aged only 41, following a stroke brought on by a brain hemorrhage.He was survived by his wife and four children.
Meredith's works give unfamiliar twists to many familiar SF themes: A human Galactic empire and its struggle with a non-human rival (We All Died at Breakaway Station) or with independence-seeking human subjects (The Sky Is Filled with Ships); a theocratic dictatorship, nuclear and biological warfare, and the effort to change history by time travel (Run, Come See Jerusalem!); or the "sidewise" travel into alternate histories and the struggle for control over a multitude of divergent timelines (The Timeliner Trilogy).
Meredith's protagonists tend to be highly motivated and devoted people, wholeheartedly taking up Earth- or Universe-shaking causes to which they give their all - and often discovering that they had been duped into serving an evil cause, or that an action taken with the best of intentions actually makes a bad situation worse. A reader opening a Meredith book can by no means count on a happy ending - indeed, some of the books can be classed as dystopias.
In the preface to Breakaway Station, before the reader had yet met the protagonists, Meredith already tells that all of them would eventually die heroic deaths comparable to those of Leonidas and his three hundred at the Battle of Thermopylae — and indeed, the book duly comes to precisely that ending.
Meredith died unexpectedly on 8 March 1979, aged only 41, following a stroke brought on by a brain hemorrhage.He was survived by his wife and four children.
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May 23, 2020
This is the third book of the "Timeliner Trilogy" by Richard C. Meredith. Richard C. Meredith was an American writer, illustrator and graphic designer, best known as the author of science fiction short stories and novels including We All Died at Breakaway Station and The "Timeliner Trilogy". Tragically he died unexpectedly on March 8, 1979, aged only 41, following a stroke brought on by a brain hemorrhage.
In this book a message of an impending alien invasion that will wipe out all life on the many different earth's, both inhabited by the Krith and by humankind, is received from 2000 years in the future. The Krith form a special paramilitary team of humans that has the ability to cross parallel realities, preparing all possible futures for the attack. But when a timeliner named Eric Mathers is told that the pan-dimensional beings called the Krith may have a hidden agenda, he must attempt to discover if the war he has been fighting for the last fourteen years is really for the greater good or just part of the "greatest lie".
I actually read this trilogy in the seventies when it was first published and remembered how much I enjoyed it. I got all three books recently at a used book store and decided to revisit it as a pleasant reminder of the past. This is a great series and I recommend it highly.
In this book a message of an impending alien invasion that will wipe out all life on the many different earth's, both inhabited by the Krith and by humankind, is received from 2000 years in the future. The Krith form a special paramilitary team of humans that has the ability to cross parallel realities, preparing all possible futures for the attack. But when a timeliner named Eric Mathers is told that the pan-dimensional beings called the Krith may have a hidden agenda, he must attempt to discover if the war he has been fighting for the last fourteen years is really for the greater good or just part of the "greatest lie".
I actually read this trilogy in the seventies when it was first published and remembered how much I enjoyed it. I got all three books recently at a used book store and decided to revisit it as a pleasant reminder of the past. This is a great series and I recommend it highly.
March 26, 2015
Satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. Yes, there are more Adventures of the Traveling Penis, but apart from that Meredith ties up the plot threads pretty nicely. A sprawling, verbose, rich trilogy that mostly fulfills its ambitious goals. Not my favorite "big scifi", but not bad.
August 3, 2009
The last in the Timeliner trilogy, one of my favorite SF trilogies.
January 29, 2016
If you like time travel this is a good trilogy. Recommended
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