Millennium
| Title | Millennium |
|---|---|
| Author | John Varley |
| Publication | Berkley |
| Size | 248p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 0425076741 |
| Topics |
American fiction--Science fiction Time travel--Fiction Plane crash--Fiction Post-apocalyptic world--Fiction Books adapted into a film or play |
| Notes | Millennium features a civilization that has dubbed itself "The Last Age". Due to millennia of warfare of every type (nineteen nuclear wars alone), the Earth has been heavily polluted and humanity's gene pool irreparably damaged. They have thus embarked on a desperate plan; time travel into the past, collect healthy humans, and send them to an uncontaminated planet to rebuild civilization. The time travelers can only take people that will have no further effect on the timeline: those who have vanished without a trace, or died without being observed; otherwise they would be changing the past, which risks a temporal paradox and perhaps even a catastrophic breakdown of the fabric of time. Though they collect everyone they can, they exert a great deal of effort on those destined to die in various disasters such as sinking ships and crashing airplanes. As such incidents leave no survivors to report interference and change the timeline, they can freely remove the living but soon-to-die victims, and replace them with convincing corpses they have manufactured in the future. But at one point, an artifact is left behind. The raid leader has to return in order for it to be recovered to prevent a breakdown in the fabric of time... [wikipedia] |
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