This is a unique time travel story with a purpose. It is based on the short story “Air Raid” by John Varley. People who are predestined to fall off the twig are being pilfered from their time, replaced, and transferred to the future for a mysterious purpose. In the meantime, back in the present, aircraft accident investigator, Bill Smith, finds a missing “stunner” (not the Girl, Louise. The stunner is a gun) and suspects the truth. Can Louise retrieve the missing device and curb Bill’s interest? Or is it too late, and her project, along with us, is doomed?
I came to this book by way of the movie Millennium (1999). Now I find that it is a good starting place to read the many other books by John Varley.
Naturally, the book has more time to put in depth, and logic must be stripped to allow the movie to tell the story in a quicker time.
The book is bound to be a collector’s item.
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