Roger macbride allen biography of albert einstein
The Book of Record of the Time Capsule tells the people of the Future where to find the secrets of the past.
Chock full of conspiracy theories, the one it's most concerned with is the very grand and very encompassing evolutionist-Communist conspiracy..
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(1957- ) US author who began writing with the TorchSpace-Opera series, The Torch of Honor (1985) and Rogue Powers (1986) – both assembled as Allies and Aliens (omni, rev 1995) – whose considerable impact may seem excessive to anyone familiar only with the books in synopsis, as neither might have appeared to offer anything new.
The Torch of Honor begins with a scene all too evocative of Robert A Heinlein's sf juveniles from three decades earlier, as a batch of space cadets graduates from academy into interstellar hot water after learning – in a scene which any viewer of John Ford's Cavalry Westerns would also recognize – of the death of many of their fellows in a space encounter.
But Allen, while clearly making no secret of his allegiance to nostalgia-inducing narrative conventions, remained very much a writer of the 1980s in the physical complexity and moral dubiety of the