ROBERT SILVERBERG confronts the paradoxes of time travel in a brilliant new novel of the 25th century, when the only escape from suffocation in a totally controlled environment is to hop backward through time. Since time hopping rearranges the past on which the structure of current existence is based, it must be stopped — but not too quickly. The Time Hoppers is a paint-by-the-numbers novel with an intriguing world but little else. The questions raised by time travel are unoriginal and silly. Silverberg's prose is far below his best -- for a brilliant novel on overpopulation read his masterpiece The World Inside/5(13). ROBERT SILVERBERG confronts the paradoxes of time travel in a brilliant new novel of the 25th century, when the only escape from suffocation in a totally controlled environment is to hop backward through time.
Robert Silverberg (born Janu) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science www.doorway.ru is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. He has attended every Hugo Awards ceremony since the inaugural event in 1 • The Time Hoppers • () • novel by Robert Silverberg • Emperor, Swords, Pentacles (excerpt) • [ Starcats ] • short fiction by Phyllis Gotlieb Primary Verifications. Book Review: The Time Hoppers, Robert Silverberg () August 1, / Joachim Boaz. /5 (Average) For me Robert Silverberg has finally lost his aura. I knew it would happen eventually if I delved into his lesser read 60s works — but I'd been impressed recently with a string of his best.
ROBERT SILVERBERG confronts the paradoxes of time travel in a brilliant new novel of the 25th century, when the only escape from suffocation in a totally controlled environment is to hop backward through time. Since time hopping rearranges the past on which the structure of current existence is based, it must be stopped — but not too quickly. Of the two dozen or so Silverberg books that I have read so far, "The Time Hoppers" is the one that reminds me most forcefully of a novel by Philip K. Dick (although it is dedicated to Michael Moorcock AND although Silverberg, of course, is a much better, more disciplined writer than Dick). Robert Silverberg's novel originated with a short story entitled "Hopper" which he had published a few years previously. In it, a 25th century bureaucrat named Quellen is tasked with finding the person who has been sending people from the underemployed population back into the past for work.
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