Coming from the future, our children's children walked through holes in the air. The holes were time tunnels and down them were fleeing our after-generations, escaping from an invasion of intelligent yet murderously savage aliens. From the author of "Ring Around the Sun".
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One of Simak's better books,
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This review is from: Our Children's Children (Hardcover)
Our descendants from 500 years in the future have to leave their own time frame because earth has been invaded by creatures which are systematically wiping out the population. Gale the leader states that the whole population of 3 billion people will be travelling through timegates to temporarily settle in the present day. They then plan to build new timegates which will carry them back to the Miocene era so they will not upset the natural evolution of man. The rush is on to get everyone through as soon as possible because the threat of one of the aliens arriving through time would be catastrophic because of their fast breeding cycle. One creature gets through and the chase is on to destroy it before it breeds. Simak creates a believable situation in regard to how our politicians and religious leaders react to the invasion from the future. This was a thoroughly enjoyable book and if the subject of time travel is your genre then I suggest you check this book out
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Fleeing from the Deadly Beasts!,
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This review is from: Our Children's Children (Paperback)
Clifford Simak (1904-1988) wrote a masterpiece, "City" (1952) rewarded with International Fantasy Award, two remarkable sci-fi novels "Way Station" (1963) Hugo Award winner and "Highway of Eternity" (1986) and many good short stories and novels."Our Children's Children" (1974) touch many of the author's major themes: aliens, time travel, and parallel universes. The story starts when a mass of people goes thru a "gate" that has materialized into thin air. They are forced émigrés from 500 years into the future escaping from an alien invasion that had defeated humankind. They are in transit to the Miocene, but they need to stop reorganize and construct new gateways to that far time period. The author deal with the innumerable problems that this huge migration produces: economical, political and even religious. Yet that is not all, aliens are able to infiltrate and add their menace to the ongoing chaos. How humanity handle this situation constitutes the core plot of the novel. A curious detail: these aliens made me think they were the blueprint of John Ringo's deadly centaurs. I recommend this book to sci-fi lovers. It is a very interesting stuff! Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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Simak was inspirational to me.,
This review is from: Our Children's Children (Mass Market Paperback)
Simak was brilliant here. First, he takes the "Peace movement" of his time 500 years into a future where mankind has overcome and eliminated war. Then he has them running to the shelter and protection of...the warlike present day. The irony and implications are thick, but rather than throw a spoiler out there I will say that his descriptions of the viscous aliens from the future were the inspiration for the bogies in my Pandoran War series.The Pandoran War
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