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Renegades of Time by Raymond F. Jones5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Well, she’s not a princess, but the earthmen heroes think she’s pretty hot. There’s also the requisite beautiful princess. They have a mind control ability used to make inhabitants of worlds they covet destroy themselves. (Yes, I know Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.) There are bad guys who use a less advanced version of the magic and who get around their own world on the backs of flying beasts that are somewhere between giant eagles and pterodactyls. In Renegades, Jones brings his protagonists into contact with a world of good, but rather effete, guys who flit throughout all time and the entire multiverse using an unexplained technology that appears to be more magic than science. At the risk of reopening an old argument I would classify Renegades more as fantasy than true SF, based on the premise that science fiction represents logical extension of current society and technology, while the fantasy writer is constrained only by the limits of his or her imagination. ![]() That’s not bad, if you like the old works from the early years of modern science fiction. Renegades of Time was first published in 1975, but to me it reads more like a yarn from the pulp era. ![]()
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