Timequest: Rashanyn Dark

By William Tedford

Book Overview

Good reading copy. Some wear from normal use. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084392232X
• ISBN13: 9780843922325
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Banner of Truth
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Inspiration for current movies?

I am re-reading the TimeQuest trilogy for the first time since I bought it back around 1981. It was apparently reprinted in 1985 by a different publisher. The premise of these stories is that the "Galaxy of Man" (Milky Way) was invaded by aliens (the Kigon), and the Worlds of Man sent out a bunch of ships to the Andromeda Galaxy to preserve Man in case we lost the battle in the Milky Way. The ships were not Faster-Than-Light, so they took thousands of years to get there, but once there, they seeded many different planets. Some of the new colonies drifted genetically to match their new environments. Back in the Galaxy of Man, Man evolved into "Star Gods", leaving their corporeal form and reaching other levels of existence. The StarGods sent out FTL ships to Andromeda to contact the human colonies, and let them know that they could now return to the Milky Way because the Kigon threat was gone. The story centers on Chayn Jahil, a man grown by one of the StarGods' ships during the trip to Andromeda. The ship educated him on the way. In Andromeda, Chayn's job is to pilot the ship (via mental link) to contact different colonies, and tell them they can go back, or just to help them with whatever problem they're having. On the way, Chayn picks up a blue humanoid girl who he first helps, then she assists him in the other 2 books. In each of the 3 books, Chayn meets with a different colony of Men, helps them with their crisis, and learns more about his origins, the StarGods, and the universe in general. I have the original printing, and there are a lot of typo's in the text. The word "loose" is commonly misused where the word "lose" was intended. If that kind of thing bothers you, you might want to avoid these books. Maybe the later reprint by another publisher is better. What I find interesting is that several of the ideas that appear in these books remind me of recent sci-fi movies. In one, the humans being transported by a slow ship are held in a sort of electronic world (like "The Matrix"). Chayn's companion, Villimy Dy, reminds me a lot of the blue girl in the TV series, "Farscape." You'll have to read them yourself to discover the others. Pretty good stories, not a LOT of suspense, but a wide variety of science-based ideas and a creative premise.

Light but thought provoking.

Somewhat hard to get, this book is worth at least a read-through. Once the main characters, after adventuring through the stars, find a home on which they can settle, they still must integrate into a society that has dichotomies of high-tech and religious fanaticism in between attacks by aliens from a nearby black hole. A Very nicely woven story that give good visual images.