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Millennium
Millennium
Author: John Varley
To Louise Baltimore and her fellow citizens of Earth in the 99th century, life offers bleak prospects. The world is on its deathbed, dying from the accumulated poisons of one too many wars. Suicide is common, since convincing reasons for hanging around for the planet's final gasps are few. — But there is a plan. Directed by the Big Computer, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780425076743
ISBN-10: 0425076741
Publication Date: 5/1/1985
Pages: 249
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 18 ratings
Publisher: Berkley
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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SteveTheDM avatar reviewed Millennium on + 204 more book reviews
This book grabbed me right at the start and didn't let me go until we were done. Varley has done a great job of characterization here, and used the gimmick of time travel to tell a fun mystery-in-two-parts story. Two parts, because there's one thread of consciousness told from the perspective of a 1980s airline accident inspector, and one thread from a time-travel agent 40,000 years in the future.

Yes, this is the book that Varley wrote after the disaster of the movie of the same name; in fact the copyright is owned by MGM/UA. But where the movie was bad, this book is quite good.

The whole time I was reading it, I was thinking how much better it was than Fritz Leiber's Hugo-winning "The Big Time".
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Fun page turner from John Varley, who is not only a fun popular novelist but also knows how to write. The book is written in alternating first person between Bill Smith who is a airplane crash scene investigator and Louise Baltimore who had something to do with the airplane crash being investigated. Varley did his research and I enjoyed the real life information on how Air Traffic Control works and how airplane crashes are researched.


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