H. Beam Piper

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen

Scott Vandehey

I didn't finish this book. I didn't even make it out of the first chapter. Reading older science fiction can be a challenge due to racism/sexism/etc. This book came highly recommended from my dad, who said it was basically the origin point for a lot of time travel tropes. However, the first chapter begins describing how they track different timelines based on which races rose to prominence. Naturally the Aryan timelines are held up as the best while others are dismissed. "Sino-Hindic: that wasn't a civilization; it was a bad case of cultural paralysis. And so was Into-Turanian…" Yeesh. I'm sure there's some good stuff in here that my dad was able to look past, but that's gonna be a hard pass for me.

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen

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