The Time Traders, Andre Norton
The Time Traders, Andre Norton
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The Time Traders

Author: Andre Norton

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Unabridged: 12 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/06/2021

Synopsis

DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME.

Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies—and weapons—far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source . . . and take it down.

When small-time criminal Ross Murdock and Apache rancher Travis Fox stumble separately onto America's secret time travel project, Operation Retrograde, they are faced with a challenge greater than either could have imagined possible. Their mere presence means that they know too much to go free. But Murdock and Fox have a thirst for adventure, and Operation Retrograde offers that in spades.

Both men will become time agents, finding reserves of inner heroism they had never expected. Their journeys will take the battle to the enemy, from ancient Britain to prehistoric America, and finally to the farthest reaches of interstellar space . . .

About Andre Norton

For well over a half century, Andre Norton was one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy authors in the world. With series such as Time Traders, Solar Queen, Forerunner, Beast Master, Crosstime, and Janus, as well as many stand-alone novels, her tales of adventure have drawn countless readers to science fiction. Her fantasy novels, including the bestselling Witch World series, her Magic series, and many other unrelated novels, have been popular with readers for decades. Lauded as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, she is the recipient of a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. An Ohio native, Norton lived for many years in Winter Park, Florida, and died in March 2005 at her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on May 11, 2021

If this book was a meal, it would be steak-with-two-veg, or maybe meatloaf - something straightforward, satisfying, and completely lacking in artifice. There is no narrative equivalent of a lobster-flavoured foam in Time Traders, no convoluted caramelized plot pinenuts or any other cutting edge lite......more

Goodreads review by Craig on May 30, 2022

The Time Traders is the first book in Norton's series of YA (called juveniles at the time) adventures featuring reformed delinquent Ross Murdock. The novel first appeared in 1958 (as did I!), and it is a fairly simple and straight forward story of making good through pluck and luck. The characters a......more

Goodreads review by Tim on August 01, 2013

This was one of my favorite science-fiction books when I was a kid. My brothers and I read it over and over. Of course, the cold war setting is now an anachronism, but for us it was everyday reality. I loved the characters, I loved the story, I loved the imagery. When we were really exhausted from a......more

Goodreads review by Isabella on August 29, 2024

Rating: 4.5 stars Yes, I picked up this book based purely on premise. What can I say, most things involving the words "time travel" are like a siren's song to me. And I seem to have had good fortune with this picking-it-up-because-time-travel recently, because The Time Traders was awesome! Basically,......more

Goodreads review by Ben on December 23, 2024

Book #2 of my 24 hour readathon. It wasn’t particularly bad, but I felt like the plot was trying to do too much. We already had time travel and Russians, and then all of the sudden there are aliens and Ax people. It’s always fun reading science fiction from the 1950’s though.......more

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