The Depths of Time Chronicles of Solace Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Roger MacBride Allen Jeremy Gage Audible Studios Books
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Time is of the essence when you're stranded in the future....
Humanity is running out of time.
The settled universe is filled with terraformed worlds linked by timeshafts - temporal wormholes in deep space. These timeshafts are the only way to travel the vast distances between the stars.
The Chronologic Patrol is charged with guarding the timeshaft wormholes and preventing time paradoxes at all costs. But one critical mission ends in disaster, turning Anton Koffield, captain of the Upholder, into a dark legend....
As ships carrying relief supplies to a crippled planet approach a timeshaft, they are mercilessly set upon by mysterious attackers - their crews are murdered and the sanctity of time itself is at risk. In response, Koffield is forced to do the unthinkable He must stop the invasion by destroying the timeshaft. Marooned 80 years in the future, he lives as a cursed figure, the villain who killed a world.
And his odyssey through time has only just begun....
The Depths of Time Chronicles of Solace Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Roger MacBride Allen Jeremy Gage Audible Studios Books
This book I feel is getting a unfair press from some of the reviewers, I first found this book in the local library and was not sure what to expect. Folks complaining about the story not moving fast enough for them need to understand that this book was written with the intention of it being multiple books! The story seemed slow to these folks because they obviously have issues with character development and understanding the characteristics of a good story.The person who says 'they never answer the question regarding the intruders' apparently never finished the book because they do in fact cover exactly who they infact were.
When I finished this book I immediately ran to the library to find the second book only to discover the only copy they had in the area was lost... disappointed I went on with reading other books instead... I finally found this on my browsing in amazon and bought all three books...
This book in the series really hammers in the idea that sometimes the price of doing ones duty is a lifetime of blame, pain, and literally sacrificing of such a person because the court of public opinion demands a scape goat...regardless if the truth is it was what had to be done. I certainly found myself feeling angry at how the main character was treated... so I say the author did a excellent job laying out that - the pawn being sacrificed was just someone doing exactly what they were trained to do!
Again, anyone who says they do not care about what the main character is going through obviously are missing many key points of the story and should stick to picture books. I don't regret this purchase and am in the process of reading this three book series again right now. I only wish all three were out in UNABRDIGED Audiobooks... so far only the first is available which is disappointing...but I will certainly keep checking as I loved this story from beginning to end!
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The Depths of Time Chronicles of Solace Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Roger MacBride Allen Jeremy Gage Audible Studios Books Reviews
I had never read anything by Allen, but I thought this looked like an interesting story. The idea of being stranded in the future looked pretty intruiging. Unfortuantely, Allen does such an incredibly bad job of setting up how the timeshafts work and how they are guarded by the chronological patrol that it really spoils the rest of the story which is actually not too bad.
First, the timeshafts are explained both in the diagram at the front of the book, and also, by the story as being holes in time only, not in time and space, so where you enter the timeshaft is the same place you exit it. However, if this is the case, then the concept of uptime and downtime ends of the timeshaft that is relayed in the story doesn't make sense. Because the uptime end of a 100 year timeshaft from the year 4900 to 5000 would also be the dowtime end of the timeshaft from 5000 to 5100. Also, since the timeshafts would have to have that dual purpose, how do you indicate whether you are going uptime or downtime when entering the timeshaft? This is never explained, though it easily could have been by using different codes, or a different nexus. Finally, the CP ships are very clearly thought of as either uptime or downtime ships, when this obviously cannot be the case, the ships would need to serve a dual role, which is never mentioned and is actually contradicted by the way the story presents them.
Second, the story makes it clear that the timeshafts are built far from any developed system, requiring them to travel at least half the duration of the timeshaft in order to reach the timeshaft to ensure that a ship cannot arrive at its destination before it left. But if this is the case, then how do the CP ships return to "their" present? Presumably, they would need to go through the timeshaft before returning home, and the uptime ship would need to go through twice, but if this is the case or how it is accomplished is never mentioned. Also, with this delay because of travel time, how long do these ships stay at their station? No matter how you try to do it, it causes problems, either with the ships leaving their station or the relief ships getting there. But Allen never even tries to explain it, so we just don't know. Also, when the Upholder send word of the attack, how can the Standfast possibly be relieved so quickly, with the travel time being so great? It doesn't make any sense.
Finally, what I think is the biggest problem with how the time travel rules are implemented, is that the author makes it very clear that he doesn't understand them himself. Even if he does a poor job of it, it would be more excusable if he was consistent, but he is not. One example of this is when a ship has been stranded in the future, and the captain is discussing his options expresses that the CP would blow up his ship if he tried to enter the uptime end of a timeshaft to go downtime. Well, why would they do that, since that is exactly what the timeshafts are for? Actually, what really prevents them from returning to their own time is the objective time it would take to travel back to the timeshaft and then back to their destination. Also, the story mentions the Upholder crew being stranded 80 years in the future, but if they are guarding an 80 year time shaft, then they should actually be stranded at least 160 years in the future, since it would take them at least 40 years to travel to the timeshaft and 40 years to return from the time shaft in addition to the 80 years they gained by going through it. The fact that the author doesn't understand his own rules is very disappointing.
Despite the poor time travel setup, I was able to enjoy a lot of this book, the opening battle is pretty good. But these problems really do overshadow what could be a pretty good story. There are also other problems later in the story that are pretty annoying, but they pale in comparison to the time travel issues. One, in particular that bothered me was the fact that early on in the story they show many different ways that identity can be confirmed before accepting important commands, from codes to retina scans to fingerprints to DNA, but later for convenience, the story suggests that an entire ship can be reprogrammed using a simple numeric code.
I will probably look for more books by Allen that do not have the time travel aspect, because I'm sure I will like them much better. But I don't think I will continue with this series because of the terrible job that was done with the time travel.
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Most of the reviewers hit the weak points in the book, it is not hard sci-fi, the uptime/downtime wormhole has a few flaws in its theory, and at times, the story is long winded. When I first bought the book there was no indication it was the first in a series, which is a pet peeve of mine.
On the plus side, the book is really as much a mystery with a sci-fi premise and a case study in what drives a man, Admiral Koffield, when his career is basically ruined and he is stranded 100 years in the future, and his obsession with tracking down the man responsible.
Allen lays out his characters well, the reserved Admiral, his eventual sidekick Norla Chandry, (who is strikingly similar to Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchens from three of Jack McDevitt's books) and the megalomaniac man behind the curtain Oscar DeSilvo.
I would recommend it for the most part, because I thought the second book in the series was extremely entertaining and it was a break from some of the harder sci-fi that I read. To paraphrase, "with mild expectations come acceptable results."
This book I feel is getting a unfair press from some of the reviewers, I first found this book in the local library and was not sure what to expect. Folks complaining about the story not moving fast enough for them need to understand that this book was written with the intention of it being multiple books! The story seemed slow to these folks because they obviously have issues with character development and understanding the characteristics of a good story.
The person who says 'they never answer the question regarding the intruders' apparently never finished the book because they do in fact cover exactly who they infact were.
When I finished this book I immediately ran to the library to find the second book only to discover the only copy they had in the area was lost... disappointed I went on with reading other books instead... I finally found this on my browsing in and bought all three books...
This book in the series really hammers in the idea that sometimes the price of doing ones duty is a lifetime of blame, pain, and literally sacrificing of such a person because the court of public opinion demands a scape goat...regardless if the truth is it was what had to be done. I certainly found myself feeling angry at how the main character was treated... so I say the author did a excellent job laying out that - the pawn being sacrificed was just someone doing exactly what they were trained to do!
Again, anyone who says they do not care about what the main character is going through obviously are missing many key points of the story and should stick to picture books. I don't regret this purchase and am in the process of reading this three book series again right now. I only wish all three were out in UNABRDIGED Audiobooks... so far only the first is available which is disappointing...but I will certainly keep checking as I loved this story from beginning to end!
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