Time Snatcher, The

di Randall Garrett (Autore)

Scott Miller, 2025

A fugitive from the future has vanished into the American frontier, carrying knowledge that could rewrite centuries of history. To stop him, a Time Patrolman must step into a violent era where guns decide arguments, reputations become armor, and every wrong move risks locking the future into a permanent mistake. Blending into the past means more than wearing the right clothes or speaking the right slang. It means accepting rules where justice is personal, power hides behind respectability, and survival often demands choices the Time Patrol was never meant to allow. As the mission tightens, the line between enforcement and vengeance begins to blur, and the cost of intervention grows heavier with every delay. The deeper the patrolman goes, the more unstable the situation becomes. Preventing a single discovery could preserve history—or fracture it beyond repair. With time itself pushing back, he must decide how far he’s willing to go when the past refuses to stay quiet. Randall Garrett was a prolific and inventive voice in mid-20th-century speculative fiction, publishing widely in magazines such as Astounding Science Fiction, Analog, and If. He is best known for tightly structured science fiction that treats time travel as a system with rules, consequences, and enforcement rather than wish fulfillment. The Time Snatcher reflects Garrett’s interest in procedural logic, moral pressure, and the danger of letting advanced knowledge loose in eras unprepared to absorb it.

• Autore: Randall Garrett
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 00:31:13
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Scott Miller
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798318086458