Overview
Time and Robbery is a new novel by Rebecca Ore, author of Gaias Toys, Times Child, Slow Funeral, and other well-received books. Time and Robbery features the protagonist of Ores Centuries Ago and Very Fast, Vel, a gay immortal born in Paleolithic who jumps time at will. Unless Vel can help out his younger self, Vels tribes descendantsa big chunk of the 21st-century British populationwill be eliminated from the timeline. Present-day Vel, though, has problems of his own, so he takes a chance and outs himself (and his talented teen-aged daughter Quince) to Joe Tavistock, a subcontractor on the weak end of the plausible deniability chain dangling off British intelligence, making it Joes problem. Joe's superiors are dubious, and Joe doesn't know who to trust. The stakes are high not just for Vel, but for everyone involved. Terry Bisson, author of Fire on the Mountain and TVA Baby, writes of Time and Robbery, Rebecca is up to her old tricks here: surprising, puzzling, and delighting us at every turn; and in this sleek, lean detective tale, coolly twisting the tail of Time itself. Ore is that rarest of creatures, a writers' writer that readers also love.
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- ISBN-13: 9781933500874
- ISBN-10: 1933500875
- Publisher: Aqueduct Press
- Publish Date: March 2012
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 176
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