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"People from different time periods work together in a fascinating tale"

Phil Mantee, field agent of the Temporal Planning Commission, returns to his apartment one evening and encounters an old friend. Everyone thought Ernie Vacca had died two years ago in a mission for the TPC but here he was, alive and very dangerous. Ernie attacks Phil and leaves him for dead. Phil is not dead, but his consciousness has been separated from his body and sent into the Time Stream leaving him in a comatose condition. Psychic healer Gillian Thomas is brought in to help Phil, her former lover, and ends up in a coma from a drug reaction.

Also forced into the Time Stream, Gillian finds herself in the year 1983 with no way to return home. She learns that when Phil was sent into the Time Stream it caused ripples in the Time Stream going into the year 2378. In that time, the two times have become one and no one knows which the correct time frame was. People were nearly insane with confusion and paranoia and Society was on the edge of breaking down.

People from 1864 to 2378 are drawn into Gillian's desperate search for help. Their separate lives are intermingled with each others until each one can break free and find their own way. A 19th century mystic, a computer game programmer, a psychic sorter, and a group of 20th century science fiction fans race across time to save the future.

From the horse and carriage days of 1864 to travel in space by fabulous space ships, this was an engrossing tale. Each time period felt right. It was marvelous to see people from different times overcome the tremendous differences in their cultures and work together toward a common cause. I particularly liked the scene in the theater. A man from 1864 seeing the opening scenes from "2001: A Space Odyssey", stands in awe, both from what he sees on the screen and what he hears. The author did a fine job of tying the different time periods together in a fascinating tale of travel though time. THE SHOALS OF TIME is a very fine tale which I'm sure science fiction fans will enjoy.

PNR Reviews © Copyright July 2002
Reviewed by Brenda Gill

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted November 12, 2006

In 2001, the Office of Homeland Security was given the task of eliminating the threat of terrorism, not only within the US, but around the globe. The OHS was granted broad powers, autonomy, and told to do whatever it took to accomplish its objective. To succeed, the OHS will eventually have to be given the authority to act globally as well.

What if an agency like the OHS became the centerpiece of a global peace effort, and that in turn created the need for a global government with the power to maintain the peace provided by that agency? What if it was so successful that peace was enforced for over a century? Now imagine your world and its people faced with the threat of extinction, and the one thing preventing you from doing something about it was that very same agency. What would you do?

The "Shoals of Time" is about such a world. Except that after the conflict between peacekeeper and revolutionary was reduced to a game of cat and mouse between their leaders, the cheese escaped into the past.

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