Sunday, August 7, 2016

The Time Traders (Time Traders/ Ross Murdock, #1)

The Time Traders (Time Traders/ Ross Murdock, #1)
author: Andre Norton
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1958
rating: 2
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date added: 2016/08/07
shelves: sword-and-laser
review:
'The Time Traders' by Andre Norton is a time travel book. I'm usually a sucker for those sort of stories, but this one felt a bit too tied to the time it was written.

It's the Cold War, and the US and Russia have discovered time travel. The race is on to find out what the Russians are doing with it. Ross Murdock is recruited to be part of a team that goes back. After being trained, he is sent out with a small team posing as Beaker traders. From that point on, things go sideways, including things that the team could have never anticipated.

Murdock is the action hero who never fails. He is like James Bond who never gets shot even though armies of people are firing at him. He never gets lost even though he gets lost. Even though he is beat up, he continues to prevail.

The "Russians" are shadowy bad guys who we barely see. The whole Cold War setting of this book just seemed to place it in a specific time, and the novel felt a bit too much like a men's adventure novel from the 1970s. Perhaps the problem is that I've read other better time travel stories lately.

This was a book club pick, but I know there are better Andre Norton books out there and I'd be willing to try a different one.


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