Time Scout

I love this series!! From the first descriptions of the Time Terminal, Kit Carson and the other denizens of Time Terminal 86 I was hooked. The idea of venturing through newly formed time gates to find out where and when they end up sounded like wonderful fantasy adventure. The characters are fun, the adventures are unique, and the locations realistic. This and the last - The House that Jack Built - are my favorites in the series.

It seems that no matter who Mr. Asprin writes with, his books continue to be funny & fun to read. The surprises thrown in are fun & frequent. The historical trivia dropped in so casually throughout the book left me feeling like I'd been there with them. A must read!

Here for the first time we the readers meet the honorable and tough as nails time scout Kenneth "Kit" Carson. I have read all the other books in the series (see my reviews) and I like this one most of all for 2 reasons In "Wagers of Sin" we see the story from Skeeter Jackson's perspective and in "Ripping Time" we see most of the story from the point of view of Marius (the ex-Roman slave) in this book a much more of a kaleidoscope effect is achieved you are everywhere at once by it up or down time.

Anything by Robert Asprin is worth reading, and this book is a side of his work different than anything else of his I've read. While the style of the writing is a little stilted and sometimes sounds very unedited and choppy, his world comes through to the reader. And a neat world it is, too.The characters and situations and even the location it's set against make you just sit back with a silly grin on your face--you really don't know why. There's nothing spectacular about his writing, but Asprin brings his usual sense of humor to a well-researched and lifelike background, and the combination is wonderful. The plot and locations leave this series open to so many stories, and I can only hope that Asprin will be the one to write them.

Asprin and Evans' novel is a good adventure, with fun, interesting characters and a nicely moving plot. The story-line -- about time travel thru a series of closed-ened "threads of time" -- does not contain much to interest hard-science or technology fans, however. What is differeent about this time-travel concept is the complete INABILITY to change the past. Time travelers cannot alter history here. All in all a good read, if you want a fun story in an exotic setting.