num_pages: 352
description: Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, Sam promises that he will do anything he can to stop the war.During his training, Sam begins to show that he has a knack for science and engineering, and he is plucked from the daily grunt work of twenty-mile marches by his superiors to study subjects like code breaking, electronics, and physics in particular, a science that is growing more important to the war effort. While studying, Sam is seduced by a mysterious female physicist that is teaching one of his courses, and given her plans for a device that will end the war, perhaps even end the human predilection for war forever. But the device does something less, and more, than that.After his training, Sam is sent throughout Europe to solve both theoretical and practical problems for the Allies. He spends his free time playing jazz, and trying to construct the strange device. It's only much later that he discovers that it worked, but in a way that he could have never imagined.
language: English
title: In War Times
titlecomplete: In War Times
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, War, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, World War II
ratings_count: 325
series: Dance Family
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Tor Books