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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Time Travel for Fun and Profit,
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This review is from: The Technicolor Time Machine (Mass Market Paperback)
Time Travel for Fun and Profit
A Review of "The Technicolor Time Machine" by Harry Harrison Publication History Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine - "The Time-Machined Saga" March 1967. ISBN-10: 020286703X The Technicolor Time Machine, 1967, Publisher: Doubleday. Technicolor Time Machine, 1968, Publisher: Berkley Medallion. The Technicolor Time Machine, 1976, 1980 and 1981, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-86007-887-6 and 0-523-48506-9 The Technicolor Time Machine, 1985 and 1991, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-812-53970-2 and 0-812-51607-9 This book is a science fiction comedy about a motley group of movie makers who travel to the eleventh century to film a Viking adventure. For such a short book there are an amazing number of surprises, plot twists and turnabouts. This is a fun book to read. "The Technicolor Time Machine" is funny book as well as a stimulating adventure story. See Also: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1967 (Volume LXXIX, No. 1) The Technicolor Time Machine The Technicolor Time Machine (A TOR Book) The Technicolor Time Machine; Vikings vs. Hollywood and the Blood is Real I enjoyed this book; I wholeheartedly recommend it to others.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Time travel was never this much fun...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Technicolor Time Machine (Mass Market Paperback)
Harrison preceded the "Back to the Future" series by a number of years, and achieves much better and funnier results in one book than the three movies. And he pulls this off without any time paradoxes that are the staple of most time travel books.The story proceeds at a madcap pace and all the Hollywood stereotypes are more than adequately captured.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hollywood producer uses time machine to bring picture in,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Technicolor Time Machine (Mass Market Paperback)
Harrison's classic about a movie producer who is out of money and out of time and solves his problems with a time machine. Book solves the mystery of the Viking encampment found on the North American continent (Vineland). Immortal punchline from book: "You can find anything in Hollywood"
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A funny tale of time travel paradox.,
This review is from: The Technicolor Time Machine (Paperback)
This is a genuinely funny time travel paradox story, that really makes you think. It very cleverly introduces and explains the idea of time travel paradox, in a way that even a novice to science fiction could understand, and that a veteran will also learn from. Harrison does this by having plain ordinary people (well, if you can call a desperate movie mogul and a film director plain and ordinary), as the central character. The inevitable nutty scientist, who invents the time machine, has to explain it to them in a way that an impatient non-technical mogul can grasp, and if he can get it, anyone can! The story is that Climactic Studios is going broke. They need one great epic movie to get them out of trouble. But the banks are breathing down their necks, and they are only days away from bankruptcy. Here's where a time machine comes in very handy! (In a lovely touch, referring back to the unwieldy names early science fiction used to find for things, the nutty scientist calls the machine a "Vraemetron", after the Lithuanian - I think -for time. No nice flowery name, oh no! It's a "vraemetron"!). What follows is a really funny story of vain Hollywood types, going back in time to shoot a Viking Saga. There they meet the Viking hero, Thorfinn Karsefni, who turns out to be a bit of a slob, and cares for nothing except for booze, food and women (fits in quite well with the Hollywood types then). Barney, the director and hero of the book, travels back and forth in time, desperately trying to avoid bumping into himself, and leaving cryptic clues for people just for the fun of it. The storyline is easy to follow, yet complex enough to keep it interesting. The paradoxes are well explained, yet keep throwing up new problems to be solved. The characters are all well developed, and I really got to like them. When the book finally finished, I actually missed them! Afterwards, it made me want to research all about Vikings, which I did! Just think of the hours of pleasure you can give your friends explaining everything you just learned! This is a great book - funny, accessible, and intellectually stimulating. Not too long, it's ideal for a train or plane ride, or maybe a nice relaxing evening in front of the fire. Just great.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious book,
By bitteroldhag (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Technicolor Time Machine (Mass Market Paperback)
This is one of the funniest books I've ever read outside of Terri Pratchett. It need to be reissued because Ottar's penchant for Jack Daniels and Slithey Tove's penchant for sex is beyond funny. This is Harry Harrison's best book. I have had it for 25 year and read it again and again. Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
hilarious and truthful,
By Joe Lime (New Palestine, Indiana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Technicolor Time Machine (Paperback)
Technicolor Time Machine is not only classic 60's Harry Harrison (fast,perfect characters,bizarre plots)but an acerbic and dead on send up of both the movie business and the scientific community. Washed up producers,ivory tower physicists,buxom starlets and Vikings--all at cross purposes and all perfectly drawn. Please read!
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The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison,
By CHARLES BEGG (CAMARILLO, CA, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Technicolor Time Machine (Paperback)
As a high school kid in the 60's, I was devouring books as fast as I could get my hands on them. When I read "The Technicolor Time Machine" it opened a whole new genre of science fiction and especially time travel fiction. Harry Harrison's humor and attention to detail were so delightfully refreshing that they grabbed my imagination for a lifetime. I was very happy to find copies of this book available on Amazon, and I look forward to re-acquainting myself with this marvelous story.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Time Travel for Fun and Profit,
By A Review of "The Technicolor Time Machine" by Harry Harrison Publication History Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine - "The Time-Machined Saga" March 1967. ISBN-10: 020286703X The Technicolor Time Machine, 1967, Publisher: Doubleday. Technicolor Time Machine, 1968, Publisher: Berkley Medallion. The Technicolor Time Machine, 1976, 1980 and 1981, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-86007-887-6 and 0-523-48506-9 The Technicolor Time Machine, 1985 and 1991, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-812-53970-2 and 0-812-51607-9 This book is a science fiction comedy about a motley group of movie makers who travel to the eleventh century to film a Viking adventure. For such a short book there are an amazing number of surprises, plot twists and turnabouts. This is a fun book to read. "The Technicolor Time Machine" is funny book as well as a stimulating adventure story. See Also: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1967 (Volume LXXIX, No. 1) The Technicolor Time Machine I enjoyed this book; I wholeheartedly recommend it to others.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Time Travel for Fun and Profit,
By A Review of "The Technicolor Time Machine" by Harry Harrison Publication History Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine - "The Time-Machined Saga" March 1967. ISBN-10: 020286703X The Technicolor Time Machine, 1967, Publisher: Doubleday. Technicolor Time Machine, 1968, Publisher: Berkley Medallion. The Technicolor Time Machine, 1976, 1980 and 1981, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-86007-887-6 and 0-523-48506-9 The Technicolor Time Machine, 1985 and 1991, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-812-53970-2 and 0-812-51607-9 This book is a science fiction comedy about a motley group of movie makers who travel to the eleventh century to film a Viking adventure. For such a short book there are an amazing number of surprises, plot twists and turnabouts. This is a fun book to read. "The Technicolor Time Machine" is funny book as well as a stimulating adventure story. See Also: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1967 (Volume LXXIX, No. 1) The Technicolor Time Machine The Technicolor Time Machine (A TOR Book) The Technicolor Time Machine; Vikings vs. Hollywood and the Blood is Real I enjoyed this book; I wholeheartedly recommend it to others.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Time Travel for Fun and Profit,
By by Harry Harrison Publication History Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine - "The Time-Machined Saga" March 1967. ISBN-10: 020286703X The Technicolor Time Machine, 1967, Publisher: Doubleday. Technicolor Time Machine, 1968, Publisher: Berkley Medallion. The Technicolor Time Machine, 1976, 1980 and 1981, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-86007-887-6 and 0-523-48506-9 The Technicolor Time Machine, 1985 and 1991, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-812-53970-2 and 0-812-51607-9 This book is a science fiction comedy about a motley group of movie makers who travel to the eleventh century to film a Viking adventure. For such a short book there are an amazing number of surprises, plot twists and turnabouts. This is a fun book to read. "The Technicolor Time Machine" is funny book as well as a stimulating adventure story. See Also: Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine - "The Time-Machined Saga" March 1967. ISBN-10: 020286703X The Technicolor Time Machine, 1967, Publisher: Doubleday. Technicolor Time Machine, 1968, Publisher: Berkley Medallion. The Technicolor Time Machine, 1976, 1980 and 1981, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-86007-887-6 and 0-523-48506-9 The Technicolor Time Machine, 1985 and 1991, Publisher: Tor Books. ISBN 0-812-53970-2 and 0-812-51607-9 For such a short book there are an amazing number of surprises, plot twists and turnabouts. This is a fun book to read. "The Technicolor Time Machine" is funny book as well as a stimulating adventure story. See Also: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1967 (Volume LXXIX, No. 1) The Technicolor Time Machine The Technicolor Time Machine (A TOR Book) The Technicolor Time Machine; Vikings vs. Hollywood and the Blood is Real I enjoyed this book; I wholeheartedly recommend it to others. |
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