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Subject: THE EMPIRE OF TIME by Crawford Kilian
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                   THE EMPIRE OF TIME by Crawford Kilian
                           Del Rey, 1978, $2.50.
                     A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper

     Jerry Pierce, crack agent for the Intertemporal Agency, goes back in
time to find out why an enormous disaster stuck Earth in the future.  He
meets an African Bushman named Anita !Kosi (who has some not very secret
powers).  They mention all sort of paradoxes without resolving or explaining
any of them.  Like, if someone gives William Blake a copy of his collected
works published in 1980 before he's written most of them, does he actually
bother to write them?  If he doesn't, do they vanish?  Kilian farbles around
this by having these be either alternate worlds or our world, only earlier
in time, depending on which suits his need.  Disappointing.

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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