Yonder Comes the Other End of Time (Daw Collectors Book, No 663) [Paperback]

Suzette Haden Elgin (Author)

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• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: DAW (February 4, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886771102
• ISBN-13: 978-0886771102
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,716,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A clash of cultures, March 11, 2009

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This review is from: Yonder Comes the Other End of Time (Daw Collectors Book, No 663) (Paperback)

In this pendant volume, published five years after And Then There'll Be Fireworks, Elgin finally ties up the last dangling plot questions of the Ozark Fantasy Trilogy, and also brings the series together with her other major effort, the Coyote Jones novels (Communipath Worlds: The Communipaths, Furthest, and At The Seventh Level, Star Anchored, Star Angered). Coyote, for those who haven't met him before, is a redheaded, iconoclastic Special Agent for the Tri-Galactic Intelligence Service, specializing in tracking down and neutralizing "rogue" telepaths; he's also the most powerful projective telepath in known space--and deaf as a post mentally, which makes him immune to most psionic attacks, an important qualification for the job. His culture is literally knit together by psionics (the "communipaths," who provide an Earth-based culture flung across three different galaxies with a instantaneous and unfailing method of communication between worlds), and when an incredibly powerful mental message is detected emanating from what is believed to be an empty sector of space, it's Coyote who's sent to find out more. His mind-blindness allows him to detect the source of the message--the Planet Ozark--but the natives aren't very happy at being discovered, and he soon finds his flyer crashed and himself a guest (or is he a prisoner?) at Castle Brightwater, home of the very powerful but not-very-easy-to-get-along-with Responsible. Coyote's attempts to get Planet Ozark to join the Communipath worlds form the meat of the book.

It's in this volume--set nine years following the events of "Fireworks"--that we finally learn the true nature of the "Garnet Ring" and the "Out-Cabal" that threatened Planet Ozark's freedom in the previous trilogy, and also learn once and for all that the Ozarkers' "magic" is really psionics, just as I suspected (although the Ozarkers themselves aren't ready to admit it). We discover that their particular brand of Christianity is leavened with concepts of karma and reincarnation, though where the original colonists picked *those* up is never explained, and we get a glimpse of the Ozarkian legal system at work. We even learn that the Ship which anciently brought their ancestors to Ozark had no conventional fuel at all--it was powered entirely by "magic"! At the end, as we might expect of the notoriously independent Ozarkers, they refuse membership in the Tri-Galactic Federation (a decision heretofore unheard of), but enough hints are left open to suggest that this may eventually change; when Elgin may address the possibility (her last novel was published in 1993) remains open to question, but as a resolution of several much-needed issues, this volume is indispensable to anyone who enjoyed the Ozark books.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This is a sequel to the Ozark Trilogy, September 25, 2003

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J. Beason "Joe" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yonder Comes the Other End of Time (Daw Collectors Book, No 663) (Paperback)

Just a point of reference, contrary to another reviewer's assumption, this book comes after all three of the Ozark Trilogy books (Twelve Fair Kingdoms, The Grand Jubilee, And Then There'll Be Fireworks). To the best of my knowledge, there was no follow-up to this book, so the plotlines remain dangling.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well-written and engaging, but unsatisfying by itself., August 7, 1998

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This review is from: Yonder Comes the Other End of Time (Daw Collectors Book, No 663) (Paperback)

The story of the planet Ozark (managed by magic) at the time of its discovery by the TriGalactic Federation (kept in communication by telepaths) is good enough to overcome the fact that its protagonist is not particularly attractive. Understandably frustrated, he pouts, sulks, and has tantrums. Ozark declines membership in the Federation, but at the end of the book many questions and plot threads are unresolved: will Ozark be overtaken by the musical Phonans? what is the nature of (sisters?) Responsible and Troublesome? will the young people of Ozark eventually force Federation membership on the older generation? is "magic" really some modification of psi powers? Presumably, some or all of these are answered in _The Grand Jubilee_ and _And Then There'll Be Fireworks_, listed at Amazon as Ozark books 2 and 3; and perhaps also in _Twelve Fair Kingdoms_, whose synopsis suggests it's a prequel.