מעשה בשני חברים טובים, הפיזיקאי אדריאן שלבורן (המכונה "של") ודייב חברו הפשוט, אשר כל חייו נותר בצילו. שניהם מתאהבים באותה אשה, אבל אדריאן זוכה בה ודייב אוכל את הלב וצופה בהם מאושרים יחדיו מבלי לומר מילה. כשאביו של "של" אשר נודע כפיזיקאי גאון, נעלם כאילו בלעה אותו האדמה, מגלים השניים כי הוא בנה מכונת זמן, ויחד משתמשים באותה מכונה כדי ללחפש אותו. הם נוסעים לתקופות רחוקות בהיסטוריה וחווים חוויות מרעישות. מתקופת הרנסאנס באיטליה, להתקוממות זכויות האדם בארצות הברית, יוון העתיקה וכו'. בין היתר, הם מסתב...

Not as good as I remember it being when I read it some years ago.

Well, I don't know. I'm not the kind of guy who typically finishes a book in four days, so I guess the way I ate this up must be a compliment, right? I'm very torn on what to say in this review. Typically I'm a sucker for time travel stories and a sucker for Jack McDevitt, so while this wasn't the best time travel story and it wasn't the best McDevitt story it doesn't seem like something I could realistically hate. Ultimately, I'd say it wasn't great, but it was a fast read an entertaining, so I...

Rather light and fluffy science fiction, a bit like Bill & Ted minus the goofiness. There isn't much conflict driving the plot, just some adventuring and sight-seeing.

Although admonished not to judge a book by its cover, I frequently set my expectations by what the back cover blurb says, regardless of the fact that it is frequently written by someone in the marketing dept. who not even read the book. Sometimes these expectations are not met, resulting in disappointment. But sometimes, the book is different than its cover in the best of ways. Such was this book. If I had to describe the book in one sentence, it might be, "A far more serious version of Bill and...

Better than I thought it'd be. Although in some places, I felt the lead characters, Shel and Dave, had a cavalier attitude in their use, (or abuse) of the time travelling device. Still a good book if you like time travelling novels.

When I was a little girl, there was a show on TV called The Time Tunnel. It was one of my favorites. Those time travelers were so cute. Later on, I fell in love with H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. My favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek involved time travel. I even used to watch those old Dr. Who shows on PBS and want to go traveling with the Doctor in the Tardis.Time Travelers Never Die is an old-fashioned time travel novel that reminds me a lot of those time traveling shows in t...

Time Travelers Never Die is about a science fiction writer named Jack McDevitt who's read a bunch of historical biographies and decides to write a novel that incorporates them all, even though there's no rhyme or reason why a time traveler would pick these random points in history.The "story" begins with David attending his friend Shel's funeral, only to find, upon returning home, that Shel is waiting for him. Shel and Dave are time travelers, so the fact that they die at some point in time does...

The person who read this book before me complained about it to me and told me that she didn't want a history lesson with her book. I love history, and I thought that a time travel story without a bit of history would be a lame time travel story indeed, so I picked it up after her. Now I kind of understand where she was going with her complaint. This book is all about the history with its time travel. Boy, is it. The characters really live it up in every possible moment in history (except the one...

Typical McDevitt book that keeps you engrossed while you do not want to question too much its premises; our bumbling but endearing heroes (Shel and Dave) travel throughout history and have many adventures, most due to their ineptness; the cameos of Aristarchus of Alexandria, the civil rights leaders of the 60's and some of the Founding Fathers are the best, with a Borgia and the goons in the south suitably menacing...A great ending and the book hangs together though it's more Time Traveler's Wi...