Nemydia Deep (Timequest, Book III) [Paperback]

William Tedford (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Leisure Books (Mm) (February 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843922923
• ISBN-13: 978-0843922929
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,830,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration for current movies?, June 2, 2006

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Bill F. Mackin (Hiawatha, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nemydia Deep (Timequest, Book III) (Paperback)

I am re-reading the TimeQuest trilogy for the first time since I bought it back around 1981. It was apparently reprinted in 1985
by a different publisher.

The premise of these stories is that the "Galaxy of Man" (Milky
Way) was invaded by aliens (the Kigon), and the Worlds of Man
sent out a bunch of ships to the Andromeda Galaxy to preserve
Man in case we lost the battle in the Milky Way. The ships were
not Faster-Than-Light, so they took thousands of years to get
there, but once there, they seeded many different planets.
Some of the new colonies drifted genetically to match their new
environments.

Back in the Galaxy of Man, Man evolved into "Star Gods", leaving
their corporeal form and reaching other levels of existence.
The StarGods sent out FTL ships to Andromeda to contact the
human colonies, and let them know that they could now return
to the Milky Way because the Kigon threat was gone.

The story centers on Chayn Jahil, a man grown by one of the
StarGods' ships during the trip to Andromeda. The ship educated
him on the way. In Andromeda, Chayn's job is to pilot the
ship (via mental link) to contact different colonies, and tell
them they can go back, or just to help them with whatever
problem they're having.

On the way, Chayn picks up a blue humanoid girl who he first
helps, then she assists him in the other 2 books.

In each of the 3 books, Chayn meets with a different colony
of Men, helps them with their crisis, and learns more about
his origins, the StarGods, and the universe in general.

I have the original printing, and there are a lot of typo's
in the text. The word "loose" is commonly misused where
the word "lose" was intended. If that kind of thing bothers
you, you might want to avoid these books. Maybe the later
reprint by another publisher is better.

What I find interesting is that several of the ideas that
appear in these books remind me of recent sci-fi movies.
In one, the humans being transported by a slow ship are held
in a sort of electronic world (like "The Matrix"). Chayn's
companion, Villimy Dy, reminds me a lot of the blue girl
in the TV series, "Farscape." You'll have to read them
yourself to discover the others.

Pretty good stories, not a LOT of suspense, but a wide
variety of science-based ideas and a creative premise.