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A new Time Traders adventure

Andre Norton
Sherwood Smith
 Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Was the cataclysmic blast that blew the island of Atlantis (aka Thera) to bits a natural disaster, or was it
something more sinister? In this latest fast-paced Time Traders adventure (Echoes in Time, etc.), SFWA
Grandmaster Norton and Smith (Earth: Final Conflict-Augur's Teacher) take on the legend of Atlantis
with a new twist-the blast had a bit of help from an alien species that our time-traveling heroes have
encountered at least once before. The "Baldies," named for their complete lack of body hair, are a
mysterious race of time travelers who appear to interfere in history to push humans toward some
catastrophic future event-but what that event is and why the Baldies need to interfere is something the
human time travelers have yet to discover. Dr. Gordon Ashe and friends are joined by a new companion,
Linnea Edel, an archeologist who finds an anomalous piece of jewelry at a dig on the island of Thera and
brings it to Gordon for examination. This piece of jewelry launches another harrowing time traveling
trip-this time to ancient Greece. Norton lends her considerable skill and familiarity with time travel SF to
this series, which poses some interesting questions about how humans view societies ancient, new and
alien. There's plenty of adventure, a fair scattering of archeological trivia and some new twists on the
alien-human relations that carry forward from the previous books.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist
The Time Patrol discovers that someone has tampered with events in ancient Atlantis, so it sends a team
back, disguised as seafaring traders. Soon after it arrives, its members discover two sets of aliens on the
scene. One is a familiar enemy, the Baldies, who are trying to mimmick their success elsewhere by
preventing the rise of technology on Earth; the other is a new alien race, whose habits provide some
explanation, if not an excuse, for the conduct of the Baldies. Trying to salvage Earth's... read more
Customer Reviews
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Hit and Run Time Travel, February 7, 2003
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Atlantis Endgame is the seventh novel in the Time Traders series, following Echoes in Time.
It tells the further adventures of Ross Murdock, his wife, Eveleen Riordan, and his partner,
Gordon Ashe. It also adds a new character, Linnea Edel, an old acquaintance of Gordon.
In this story, Linnea has found an anachronistic earring with a modern jeweler's mark in a
site on Thera, the probable location of legendary ancient Atlantis. While interesting in and of
itself, it becomes extremely intriguing when found to be identical to an earring belonging to
Eveleen. This existence of this object in ancient layers of soil suggests that it was lost circa
1628 BC, shortly before the island was destroyed by an huge volcanic eruption. The Project
suspects Baldie intervention in the eruption and intends to send a team back in time to
investigate.
The Russian time travel group cooperates with the Project to send a small ship with six
agents aboard back to Kalliste, the ancient name of Thera before the eruption. There they
travel to Akrotiri, the major town on the island, where they discover signs of Baldie tech in the
volcano vents both on land and in the sea. Later a group of Baldies are seen on the beach,
apparently looking for indications of THEM. They also find a Baldie ship in the sea, but can't
locate the Baldie onshore base. They do find a couple of Fur Faces, a alien sentient species