Ace Double D-491 Paperback Original (1961). Cover Art by Ed Emshwiller
From the Introduction on the first page:
THE ONLY CERTAINTY WAS CONSTANT CHANGE
"My name is Greta Forzane. Twenty-nine and a party girl would describe me. I was born in Chicago, of Scandinavian parents, but now I operate chiefly outside space and time -- not in Heaven or Hell, if there are such places, but not in the cosmos or universe you know either.
"My job is to nurse back to health and kid back to sanity Soldiers badly roughed up in the biggest war going. This war is the Change War, a war of time travelers -- in fact, our private name for being in this war is being on the Big Time. Our Soldiers fight by going back to change the past, or even ahead to change the future, in ways to help our side win the final victory, a billion or more years from now . . . "
That's a bit of the opening of one of the most unusual, original, and downright entertaining science-fiction novels ever written. The 17th World Science Fiction Convention awarded it a "Hugo" as the best novel of the year -- and when you've read it, you'll find yourself in breathless agreement.
Ace Double D-491 Paperback Original (1961). Cover Art by Ed Emshwiller
From the Introduction on the first page:
THE ONLY CERTAINTY WAS CONSTANT CHANGE
"My name is Greta Forzane. Twenty-nine and a party girl would describe me. I was born in Chicago, of Scandinavian parents, but now I operate chiefly outside space and time -- not in Heaven or Hell, if there are such places, but not in the cosmos or universe you know either.
"My job is to nurse back to health and kid back to sanity Soldiers badly roughed up in the biggest war going. This war is the Change War, a war of time travelers -- in fact, our private name for being in this war is being on the Big Time. Our Soldiers fight by going back to change the past, or even ahead to change the future, in ways to help our side win the final victory, a billion or more years from now . . . "
That's a bit of the opening of one of the most unusual, original, and downright entertaining science-fiction novels ever written. The 17th World Science Fiction Convention awarded it a "Hugo" as the best novel of the year -- and when you've read it, you'll find yourself in breathless agreement.