The Time Traders

The story is competently told, in that it kept me turning the pages to find out what happens next. However, in retrospect, it leaves me unsatisfied because the story as a whole is not particularly plausible or interesting. Reading it passed the time, but left me wondering whether my journey had been at all worthwhile.

Characterization is rather uninteresting and lacking in variety. Although the author's a woman, women hardly appear in it; perhaps partly because of the parameters of the story, and partly because of the tastes of readers at the time.

If you decide to read sf of the 1950s, you shouldn't expect much of the writing style. The writing here sometimes seems a bit clunky, but mostly I suppose it's no worse than many other tales of that period.

I first read it 5 years ago, and read it again now (2021) because I'd forgotten everything about it, so I felt I was reading it for the first time, again. At least for me, it's unmemorable.