With humankind surviving underground in the twenty-fifth-century's last city, a courageous man journeys back in time into Cuba's history to try to alter the past and stop the worldwide conflagration that would leave Earth a nuclear wasteland. Reprint.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Apocalypse Then,
By Kris (Oxnard, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dead Morn (Paperback)
This book impressed me as a novel by Roberto Fuentes, which he probably couldn't sell to a publisher, combined with a somewhat clumsy pseudo-scientific overlay by Piers Anthony, a writer who is as prolific in the book-writing world as ants on tossed candy.
Sr. Fuentes' contribution, the story of Cuba during the time of Castro's rise to power and the subsequent Bay of Pigs invasion and missile showdown, are very interesting. You will learn a lot about how the Castro regime got started, and you will meet Che Guevara, Raul Castro, Batista (the "dictator" overthrown by Castro), and a host of other true and actual players on that stage and era. The hero of the book, 197 aka Juan Bringas, goes through some stuff. By the way, along those lines, this is no children's book. The authors have provided readers, or subjected readers, to some pornographic scenery, and why not? That's precisely how Cuba was in those days of the late 1950s and early 1960s, or so I have been told. Juan also does some "hard" time in Cuba's notorious prison, switches allegiances at the drop of a hat, commits inter-age adultery, and never does make it back to the 25th century, where the whole thing started. That's partly why the science fiction, time travel angle seems like a tack-on. It carries no real meaning in the story, although the authors did try hard to make it seem integral. Anyway, it's not the most interesting book you'll ever read, but you will learn some things about Cuba and that era and Castro's political beginnings. Diximus
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A Great Writer, But a Mediocre Book,
By Marquessa@hotmail.com (California, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dead Morn (Paperback)
Piers Anthony is one of my favorite writers, but this has got to be his worst book. Usually he is intelectual in an entertaining way, but in this book he forces the reader to work for every revelation. While he has many interesting insights into the problems inherent in time travel, he only deals with them by tangling them into a snarl of yarn that only a kitten could appreciate. Although I give him an A for effort, this book is a C read, with a D- ending, at best.
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His worst work,
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This review is from: Dead Morn (Paperback)
Normally I have always like his work, but this is the exception. I was intrigued by his discussion of time travel and the perils inherent in it. However, the story fell flat. Nothing is worse than a good short story idea that is forced into a paperback. I almost put it down but continued on in hope that the ending would at least tie it all together and make it a worthwhile read, but alas, it was not to be. I finished it while on the beach and almost threw it into the ocean I was so disapointed.
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