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Lädt ... Laying The Music To Restvon Dean Wesley Smith
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A former college professor turned bartender, Doc finds himself trying to save his friends from a ghost under a lake in the wilderness of Idaho. From diving into a sunken ghost town to trying to stay alive on the sinking deck of the Titanic, this time-travel science fiction novel reads like a rollercoaster ride with all the twists and turns. First published in paperback in 1989 from Warner Questar Books, Dean Wesley Smith's first published novel gives a lot of hints of his future series and his bestselling career spanning over a hundred and fifty novels. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I liked this novel. It wasn’t, by any means, a great novel but certainly an intriguing, pleasant first novel. I liked the use of historical settings for the novel: the flooding of Roosevelt, Idaho and the sinking of the Titanic. I liked the bored, weary character of “Doc” Kellogg Jones. But what I liked best was the image of trapped, prisoners on the Titanic doomed to bodily repeat six hours for eternity while retaining continual conscious. Smith does a good job at hinting at the many implications of this.
The rest of the plot, the time travelers, seemingly alien artifacts, ghosts, were standard sf issue but combined in a pleasant, novel way. Smith leaves a lot of questions unanswered: exactly how does the spirit world of Gretchen fit in? (I did find the death of Alex to be a bit of a plot contrivance to reunite him with Gretchen and not to have to deal with his presence in a world eighty years changed.) Who are the Seeders? (Human? Alien?) Who are the various groups and what are their principles and goals? Will Marjorie Thiel and Doc get together? A sequel could be done, but Smith evidently never did. I liked the enigmas. The story feels complete and the mysteries natural given the first-person narrative structure. ( )