Roy had been preparing for the odd isolation of time travel, but nothing had prepared him for his final arrival on Atlantis—a shimmering city far beyond his imagination! The new technology had allowed Roy's consciousness to enter the mind of the heir to Atlantis' throne, observing history from the perspective of one of it's people. And what Roy found disturbed him. Strange dreams. Impossibly futuristic inventions and machines. In the midst of a dark, barbaric world still thawing from the ice age, how could such an advanced city exist at this time?
Roy knew this island's fate. According to legend, it would vanish into the sea. Roy also knew he had a limited amount of time to decipher the strange message in the Prince's mind—visions of cataclysmic events, mysterious rites to a faraway star. If Roy was in an Atlantis unlike anything the researchers had predicted, then what were its secrets? And when would it be destroyed?
This novella, written as a series of letters from time-traveler Roy Colton in Atlantis to a colleague elsewhere in the ancient world, is not well suited to audio. The first cassette, as Colton enters the mind of an heir to the throne and first surveys the wondrous city, is monotonous. The story picks up later as the prince notices the "demon" time-traveler hiding within his mind, setting up a confrontation and dialogue between them and giving Tom Parker the chance to go beyond the conversational tone of a letter. Parker effectively portrays both Colton and the prince, but the structure of the story gives him too little to do. J.A.S. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Robert Silverberg (1935- ) began to write while studying for his BA at Columbia University. His first published story was “Gorgon Planet” (1954). He began to publish prolifically in 1956, winning a Hugo Award that year as “Most Promising New Author.” He continued to contribute to such magazines as Science Fiction Adventures and Super-Science Fiction, using many different names. Over the years he maintained his astonishing creativity, writing psychologically intense novellas, notably, A Time of Changes and later, Sailing to Byzantium, both Nebula Award winners. He remains one of the most imaginative and versatile writers in science fiction, metamorphosing from a writer of standardized pulp fiction into a prose artist, a transformation unparalleled in his field.
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