Time Traders: The Time Traders & Galactic Derelict
For this volume, Norton has updatedTheTime Traders (1958) andGalactic Derelict(1959) to take into account 40 years of political, social, and technological developments--such as computer games, a concluded cold war, and many more female characters in sf--without essentially changing them. InTime Traders, Ross Murdock has the choice of rehabilitation or volunteering for a secret research project, which turns out to be searching the past for the source of illicit technological innovations. InGalacticDerelict, Travis Fox stumbles on a time-travel project and has to be recruited for it; then he and his comrades take an involuntary trip aboard an alien starship that crashed on Earth before recorded history. The characters' can-do attitude and Norton's magic with a story have survived two generations in fine style, and these tales remain the same sort of quintessential fun asStar Wars, and with more intelligence. May there be a market for their further reprinting in 2040!Roland GreenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved