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A stunning new companion series to 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY from the world's most important SF writer and his acknowledged heir 1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and what appears to be an impossibly advanced piece of Russian technology. And then to a terrifying intervention by a helicopter from 2037. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in, Kipling, his friends and the helicopter crew stumble across Alexander the Great's army. Mankind's time odyssey has begun. It is a journey that will see Alexander avoid his premature death and carve out an Empire that expands from Carthage to China, beating the time-slipped army of Ghenghis Khan in a battle outside the ruins of Babylon in the process. And it will present mankind with two devastating truths. Aliens are amongst us and have been manipulating our past and our future. And that future extends only as far as 2037, for that is the date Earth will be destroyed. This is SF that spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on time travel and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre's masters at their groundbreaking best.
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This is the first of the “Time Odyssey” series. There are three books as of now, but it is written to make much more. Unfortunately, Mr. Clarke died in 2008, so this series will probably stay unfinished, and that's probably for the better.
Should you invest your time in this? If you know Stephen Baxter's work and you like it, go on. If you are under the spell of Arthur C. Clarke's name, do not. This isn't Clarke's. He probably contributed at high level, but the grunt work is Baxter's, and his style overwhelmingly dominates.
If you are still undecided and don't mind a small spoiler, only read it if you enjoy historical fiction, because that is mostly what this book is..
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3 primary booksA Time Odyssey is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.