Crosstime

Blake Walker was found as an orphaned or abandoned child, and raised as the child of the police officer who found him. He has no memories before that day, but while wholly human, he doesn't look quite like any familiar ethnic group. He also has a strange ability; he has a very reliable sense for whe......more

An entertaining thriller about alternate timelines creating other worlds, with imaginative variations of Earth. I liked the creation of a "level hopping" between iterations, and the protagonist's use of his limited talents to be the hero. The imagination of an America where native and colonizer divi......more

an omnibus reprint of two connected alternate history novels from the 50s and 60s. I read them individually, probably in the 60s. This re-read confirms to me Norton's place in Science Fiction. Of course, some things are dated, but the plot rings true and so do the characters. In The Crossroads of Time......more

Two science-fiction books in one. The concept: other worlds on parallel times that have split from this world at different points in time. For instance what if Hitler had won---. One such world finds a way to travel, not back or forward in time, but across time. Both books deal with the same main ch......more