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Great plot
RTC!

This novel, the first of the A Time Odyssey trilogy was written by two of my favorite science fiction authors, just four years before the death of ACC. I'm guessing ACC came up with the basic ideas used as the framework and Baxter filled in the plot details. That's what it felt like while I was reading it. It felt like a Stephen Baxter novel. In Time's Eye several groups of featured characters from different eras of humanity find themselves pulled out of time and put together in a sort of patchw...

Not too much memorable around this surprisingly boring story. 3 of 10 stars

This is a vastly entertaining trip into history. A few modern-day people are swept into an alternate world. People from vastly different ages in history find themselves in the same time period. What would happen if the Mongol Horde, led by Genghis Khan, were to confront the disciplined army of Alexander the Great? You will find the answer in this novel!Throughout the story, it is a mystery how these people from different ages got swept together into the same time period. It has to do with the su...

What can I expect from a title like that with hard-hitting authors like this? A little bit of the strengths of both and a few of their weaknesses, of course. Most of the characters feel like Clarke's inventions, but some of the odder characters kinda felt like Baxter. The real strength of this novel is the slicings of time and location, jaunting whole segments of the Earth's populace into mish-mashes quite like Riverworld.How do the armies of Genghis Kahn and Alexander the Great sound, clashing ...

Dear Sir Arthur C. Clarke,As a Poul Anderson fan, I enjoyed your collaborative novel Time’s Eye with Stephen Baxter. Not that Anderson has a monopoly on time travel / alternate history books and ideas, but some of his strongest works are in this sub-genre. This one reminded me of Anderson’s The Dancer From Atlantis, and it was also reminiscent of Philip Jose Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go, with the eclectic blend of historic folks from divergent times. I also enjoyed the references to your...

second read - 19 May 2021 – ***. The concept is that at one moment, the Earth is carved up and reassembled with patches from different periods drawn from 2 million years of human history. Many of those patches were actually unpopulated by humans at the time, but are thrown together with accurately-described environmental systems. Those with humans, as statistically expectable, are mostly drawn from pre-history and early human civilizations, and even some early hominids. The most modern represent...

First, let me just say that I have really enjoyed the works of Sir Arthur C. Clarke up until this point. I devoured 2001: A Space Odyssey with an abandon that I have not previously brought to a straight-up piece of Science Fiction. So, when I came across this one at a used book store, it was really the name that got me interested, even though the premise itself seemed interesting enough.However, I was sadly disappointed. The plot itself was a great idea, but the execution was rather piss-poor. I...

I thoroughly enjoyed Time’s Eye - it's got action, science, and solidly developed characters. It's also got an ancient history battle royale between Alexander the Great and his army vs. Genghis Khan and his Mongolian hoard. Time's Eye is the first in Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey series which takes place in the same universe as Clarke's 2001 stories. Inexplicably (at least initially), Earth is sliced up and stitched back together creating a mish-mash of timeframes. This scen...