Downtiming the Nightside

By Jack L. Chalker and Chalker

Book Overview

NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned to a nuclear power plant - a cover for a secret project sending observers back in time. When terrorists take it over and send two of their own back to change the past, Moosic is sent in pursuit. But they are all pawns in a time game to conquer the Earth.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671721704
• ISBN13: 9780671721701
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

A realistic take on time travel that only Chalker could do.

What can I say other than if you are a Chalker fan, this book is a must. It appears as though it is a reprint of one of his earlier works. This is the most realistic look at time travel I have seen, (if time travel can be "realistic" at all)although Chalker manages to keep you glued to the pages, as he often does. The journeys of Moosic in this work are intriguing and fast moving. It is interesting to see how time allows us to think we can control it, only to be bound to obey its will in the end. This is the first book in a long while that it actually took up to the last page for me to say, "Oh yeah, now I get it!" You just gotta read this one folks!

The best time travel book I read

This book is great, a real exploration of some of the possibilities and implications of time travel. All kinds of good ideas other authors seem to have missed. The book is really intricate with the story twisting wildly, but it keeps you moving. Well worth the sliced tree its printed on.

What time travel on a realistic Earth would lead to

The mental and physical changes of Ron Moosic through the book created an interesting cycle. The strange and different Outworlders (like a shadow in the backgroud and never shown) proves the ever mistrust between humans and what future human evolution will bring.