I will not say a word about story here (there are people who done it before me) but I will say a few comments. First, author often says that past can not be manipulated which I think is not true, and based on that he leads story development in one way. Word “full circle” will come into Your mind when You read a book, and few paradoxes as well. Why can’t they travel in future? I know that that is explained later in text but that explanation is not good enough, and why couldn’t they change the past? After all Warden and Rangers are higly advanced civilization in technology, why couldn’t they come in some dark and forgotten past whith heavy machinery and create their own world? In this book there are questions who reamined unanswered or illogicaly answered, it looks like the author did not want to bother himself with that kind of questioning. Read this book, if you like Soap Operas and Heroism, if You like “hard”
SF or something that better deals with time travel, read Stephen Baxter’s “Time Ships”
A Quick Romp Through Time, February 17, 2001
You can always count on Poul Anderson for a good time travel story, and The Corridors of Time is no exception.
