Great Work of Time by John Crowley avg rating — ratings — published — 4 editions. Perhaps most impressively, Crowley takes the reader to different worlds and time periods, introducing a variety of characters and circumstances, and yet the reader doesn’t lose the thread of the story. What’s particularly endearing about Great Work of Time are the unexpected places Crowley takes this far-from-standard time travel story. The opening chapter about Casper Last and his quest for riches seems . From the bold colonial days of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes through the wide-eyed and wondrous possibilities of the present to a strange and haunting future of magi and angels, of men and many races other than our own, John Crowley's time-travel masterpiece surfs bravely along "the infinite, infinitely broken coastline of Time" to tell a story that takes place neither here nor there, but /5(12).
Great Work of Time (Bantam Spectra, ). Cover by Thomas Canty "Great Work of Time" was originally published in John Crowley's collection bltadwin.ru was nominated for the Locus and Nebula Awards, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. John Crowley's work doesn't fit easily into any sub-genre except Things John Crowley Has Written. Still, Great Work of Time has enough of the British Empire, airships, alternate histories, train terminals, misty London cityscapes, and men with bowler hats and tightly furled umbrellas to justify a steampunk cover, which might introduce a. John Crowley / ˈ k r aʊ l i / (born December 1, ) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and historical bltadwin.ru has also written bltadwin.ruy studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer.. Crowley is best known as the author of Little, Big (), a work which received World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a.
Great Work of Time by John Crowley avg rating — ratings — published — 4 editions. This general theory of effect is nothing new to the genre of time-travel, yet in his explication of this phenomenon, and in his execution of the story set forth in “Great Work of Time,” Crowley has accomplished something novel and frightening: novel, because the theory that he posits for time travel gives birth to a puzzle-box of plots, each one linked to the other in a myriad ways that a lesser writer would find impossible to describe with mere prose; frightening, because Crowley. Perhaps most impressively, Crowley takes the reader to different worlds and time periods, introducing a variety of characters and circumstances, and yet the reader doesn’t lose the thread of the story. What’s particularly endearing about Great Work of Time are the unexpected places Crowley takes this far-from-standard time travel story. The opening chapter about Casper Last and his quest for riches seems quite distant from Winterset’s struggle with killing a man to create a better world.
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