TERRA SF 516 - Nelson Bond : Im Zeitexil

Nelson Bond : Im Zeitexil (Exiles of Time)
Terra SF 516, 28.04.1967
Deutsche Erstausgabe
Originalausgabe 1940
Aus dem Amerikanischen von ???
Titelbild : Karl Stephan

A Man and A Woman Are Snatched Thousands of Years to Save All Humanity from the Destructive Fury of a Runaway Comet in This Pulp Classic!

Lance Vidor and Vale Marlow were part of that band of humans shanghied backward through time, thousands of years, where they were known as the Exiles of Time. There Lance and Vale found they must struggle with other exiles to help Earth's civilization from the destruction of a runaway comet. But there were others among them, unscrupulous men who had been snatched through time too, and they saw a way to use the situation for their own gain and make themselves the rulers of the world and shapers of the future. And they were determined to stop at nothing, even if it meant that humankind might lose that titanic cosmic struggle passed down in legend as the Day of Ragnarok, bringing about the end of the world and the Twilight of the Gods. Lance and Vale had come thousands of years to fall in love, but they were willing to risk life itself, even if it meant stopping the evil plotters from their own age, if they could avert the end of humanity with their sacrifice. Or was there one way out?

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Eines der schwächeren Werke von Nelson Bond. So gut seine Kurzgeschichten und der Episodenroman um Lancelot Biggs auch sein mögen, "Exiles of Time" kommt lange nicht da ran. Das liegt unter anderem auch daran, daß die Geschichte selbst eine klassische Science Fantasy ist, deren Ablauf und Ende bereits zu Anfang für den heutigen Leser mehr als offensichtlich ist. Aber nicht nur, auch die Figuren selbst sind sehr scherenschnittartig beschrieben, kein Vergleich mit den echten Charakteren von "Lancelot Biggs". Trotzdem liest sich der Roman relativ flüsig weg, stilistisch ist Nelson Bond auch in seinen schwächeren Arbeiten ein Genuß.