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The Fury Out of Time (1965)

par Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

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The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris...to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human pilot, stone dead.

Bowden Karvel's theory, that the capsule's port of origin lay in the distant future, seemed a plausible explanation. But while investigating, the capsule was accidentally dispatched again through time...only to reappear with an alien navigator, this time destroying a small French town.

One thing seemed imperative: a human operator must man the intricate controls of the capsule, riding it forward to its mysterious point of origin. And Bowden Karvel seemed the perfect choice to make the trip...

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This is not set in the Jan Darzek universe, instead being set in contemporary (as at the time of writing) times (at lest mainly). As the book opens we meet Bowden Karvel, who's a disabled vet who becomes the main witness to the titular event as a... something comes crashing out of nowhere, sweeping through the bucolic American countryside in a spiral of catastrophe that looked to end up at the nearest air force base. Thankfully this doesn't happen but the destruction is fairly impressive all the same. Getting himself involved in the investigation Bowden comes to the conclusion that the devices is some form of time machine. not unreasonably, the general conclusion is that its come from the future but the device disappears before it can be tested. When a similar device appears in the French countryside, Bowden an a friend make their way to see what they can there - not too much as it happens but Bowden sees enough of the destruction this device made to see that the spiral was the other way round this time. A third appearance give Bowden his chance to try out the device himself, very well protected this time against the pressures that were thought to have killed the occupant found squished all over the insides of the machine this time.

After a number of adventures, first in the far future, where Bowden finds a society almost as devolved as HG Wells' Time Traveller but he manages to make his escape into an equally far distant past where he finds the original owners of the time machine - a group of aliens who had become marooned in the dinosaur infested past and it takes all of Bowden's persuasion to get them to put much effort into helping themselves to escape. In the end Bowden (cured of his disability in the far future) is left to consider his future...

Although it's fairly action packed, this isn't a particularly conflict filled book, with much of the action coming from Bowden's internal struggles over his future paths, first as a disabled person then a 'jaded' traveller. ( )
1 voter JohnFair | Mar 10, 2018 |
Quando si dice la sorpresa: questo vecchio Cosmo Argento a firma di un autore ormai dimenticato si rivela un piacevolissimo intrattenimento grazie a una notevole inventiva e a un ritmo coinvolgente che sa ponderare l’azione con attimi più riflessivi. A dir la verità, l’inizio non è che prometta benissimo, con il suo sguardo ironico ma di maniera sulle gerarchie militari combinate con le intrusioni dei servizi segreti in un insieme che rispecchia gli anni Sessanta in cui il libro fu scritto: bastano pochi capitoli perché ci si alzi di livello, in pratica già dalla spedizione con vacanza in Francia del protagonista affiancato al suo amico barman, per poi acuire definitivamente l’interesse quando si inizia a pendolare avanti e indietro nel tempo. Il viaggio temporale è un argomento scivoloso e Biggle dimostra di maneggiarlo con ammirevole misura descrivendo prima una società del futuro basata sulla specializzazione, la proprietà privata e la possibilità di commerciare qualsiasi cosa, inclusi gli esseri umani – in filigrana c’è forse la critica alle multinazionali coerente con il periodo – e in seguito trasferendosi nel Triassico a sfuggire ai dinosauri in compagnia dell’equipaggio di una nave aliena. Il barile a sei zampe di questi ultimi e le corporature alte e snodate, nonché glabre, dei terresti a venire sono funzionali assieme al tentativo riuscito di delinearne una psicologia precisa così da appassionare alle loro vicende non meno che a quelle di Bowden Karvel, un ex pilota dedito all’alcool (un incidente gli è costato una gamba e le missioni spaziali) che finisce un po’ per caso al centro della vicenda. Dalle sue parti, un oggetto misterioso compare dal nulla scatenando una forza distruttiva a spirale: appare evidente che possa viaggiare nel tempo, ma l’extraterrestre alla guida è spiaccicato e i comandi incomprensibili. Inavvertitamente, quello per ripartire viene trovato, ma poco dopo il coso riappare in Francia facendo un altro macello: Karvel si offre per provare ad andare nel futuro a bloccare ulteriori invii del letale mezzo di trasporto. Quando infine riesce a intendersi con i pronipoti, capisce di essere andato nel senso sbagliato, così, non prima di aver fomentato la rivolta terrestre contro gli altri mondi che sfruttano il pianeta-madre, ecco il grande salto all’indietro fino a incontrare gli smarriti Hras bisognosi di uranio per tornare a casa. Il finale interlocutorio per il protagonista è un ulteriore pregio di questo romanzo di genere le cui molte virtù riescono a non far quasi sentire l’inevitabile obsolescenza della parte scientifica per un passatempo con un alto tasso di divertimento. ( )
  catcarlo | Mar 3, 2018 |
Another good SF book by Biggle. I'm surprised I had never read his books years ago. He is one of the better classic SF writers that I've recently discovered.

This book starts out in the present (1960s) and is a bit slow. Stick with it. Things start to get better after couple of chapters and the last half is a fun read. ( )
1 voter ikeman100 | Aug 15, 2017 |
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The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris...to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human pilot, stone dead.

Bowden Karvel's theory, that the capsule's port of origin lay in the distant future, seemed a plausible explanation. But while investigating, the capsule was accidentally dispatched again through time...only to reappear with an alien navigator, this time destroying a small French town.

One thing seemed imperative: a human operator must man the intricate controls of the capsule, riding it forward to its mysterious point of origin. And Bowden Karvel seemed the perfect choice to make the trip...

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