Time Scout [Mass Market Paperback]

Robert Asprin (Author), Linda Evans (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

Pursuing a less dangerous career as a hotelier at Time Terminal 86, former time scout Kenneth "Kit" Carson finds his peace disrupted when a redhead travels through an illicit time gate that threatens to abandon her in time.

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In the twenty-first century, a global disaster makes time travel possible, and tourists regularly visit known parts of the past, although only in the tracks of time scouts who pioneer new time gates. Retired time scout Kit Carson has to deal with a granddaughter he never knew who is determined to become the first female time scout. Margo, semieducated and abused but tough and smart, learns weapons, languages, and self-discipline as she progresses from tourist to researcher to pioneer of a new gate--a status that almost ends in disaster and requires rescue by her grandfather and her lover-mentor. Engaging, fast moving, historically literate, and filled with Asprin's expertise on the techniques and philosophy of personal combat, this is first-class action sf. Roland Green

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Baen (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671876988
• ISBN-13: 978-0671876982
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,427,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent adventure novel, little science, June 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Time Scout (Mass Market Paperback)

Asprin and Evans' novel is a good adventure, with fun, interesting characters and a nicely moving plot. The story-line -- about time travel thru a series of closed-ened "threads of time" -- does not contain much to interest hard-science or technology fans, however. What is differeent about this time-travel concept is the complete INABILITY to change the past. Time travelers cannot alter history here. All in all a good read, if you want a fun story in an exotic setting.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty darn good..., September 26, 2000

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Canderso (Lexington, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Scout (Mass Market Paperback)

Anything by Robert Asprin is worth reading, and this book is a side of his work different than anything else of his I've read. While the style of the writing is a little stilted and sometimes sounds very unedited and choppy, his world comes through to the reader. And a neat world it is, too.

The characters and situations and even the location it's set against make you just sit back with a silly grin on your face--you really don't know why. There's nothing spectacular about his writing, but Asprin brings his usual sense of humor to a well-researched and lifelike background, and the combination is wonderful. The plot and locations leave this series open to so many stories, and I can only hope that Asprin will be the one to write them.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And so it begins........, August 8, 2002

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General Pete (SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Scout (Mass Market Paperback)

Here for the first time we the readers meet the honorable and tough as nails time scout Kenneth "Kit" Carson.

I have read all the other books in the series (see my reviews) and I like this one most of all for 2 reasons
In "Wagers of Sin" we see the story from Skeeter Jackson's perspective and in "Ripping Time" we see most of the story from the point of view of Marius (the ex-Roman slave) in this book a much more of a kaleidoscope effect is achieved you are everywhere at once by it up or down time.