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Timescoop

Timescoop

John Brunner

A Pandora's box of evil Freitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past. Now all the riches of the ages were his for the taking. But mere wealth was not what Freitas was after. Supreme power was what he sought, and from the past he picked the men and women who could help him gain absolute mastery over his rivals. But one thing he had not reckoned on - the power these creatures fro the past would have over him, the reign of terror about to begin...

“Well, like they say, nothing can set a precedent until it happens for the first time.”

John Brunner book Timescoop

Source: Timescoop (1969), Chapter 19 (p. 122)

“You’ve been competing against the past, and that’s a contest no one can win because the past has all the advantages. We’ve forgotten all its fiddling little drawbacks: the lice, the skin infections, the disgusting personal habits and the rest of it.”

John Brunner book Timescoop

Source: Timescoop (1969), Chapter 18 (p. 116)

“I don’t usually talk much about this, Chester, because my grandfather dinned it into me as a child that it doesn’t make any difference who you’re descended from unless you can do something yourself to match what your ancestors did to gain their own notoriety.”

John Brunner book Timescoop

Source: Timescoop (1969), Chapter 2 (p. 18)

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