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A new Time Traders adventure

Andre Norton

Sherwood Smith

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Was the cataclysmic blast that blew the island of Atlantis (aka Thera) to bits a natural disaster, or was it

something more sinister? In this latest fast-paced Time Traders adventure (Echoes in Time, etc.), SFWA

Grandmaster Norton and Smith (Earth: Final Conflict-Augur's Teacher) take on the legend of Atlantis

with a new twist-the blast had a bit of help from an alien species that our time-traveling heroes have

encountered at least once before. The "Baldies," named for their complete lack of body hair, are a

mysterious race of time travelers who appear to interfere in history to push humans toward some

catastrophic future event-but what that event is and why the Baldies need to interfere is something the

human time travelers have yet to discover. Dr. Gordon Ashe and friends are joined by a new companion,

Linnea Edel, an archeologist who finds an anomalous piece of jewelry at a dig on the island of Thera and

brings it to Gordon for examination. This piece of jewelry launches another harrowing time traveling

trip-this time to ancient Greece. Norton lends her considerable skill and familiarity with time travel SF to

this series, which poses some interesting questions about how humans view societies ancient, new and

alien. There's plenty of adventure, a fair scattering of archeological trivia and some new twists on the

alien-human relations that carry forward from the previous books.

From Booklist

The Time Patrol discovers that someone has tampered with events in ancient Atlantis, so it sends a team

back, disguised as seafaring traders. Soon after it arrives, its members discover two sets of aliens on the

scene. One is a familiar enemy, the Baldies, who are trying to mimmick their success elsewhere by

preventing the rise of technology on Earth; the other is a new alien race, whose habits provide some

explanation, if not an excuse, for the conduct of the Baldies. Trying to salvage Earth's... read more

Customer Reviews

Avg. Customer Review:

Hit and Run Time Travel, February 7, 2003

Reviewer:

Atlantis Endgame is the seventh novel in the Time Traders series, following Echoes in Time.

It tells the further adventures of Ross Murdock, his wife, Eveleen Riordan, and his partner,

Gordon Ashe. It also adds a new character, Linnea Edel, an old acquaintance of Gordon.

In this story, Linnea has found an anachronistic earring with a modern jeweler's mark in a

site on Thera, the probable location of legendary ancient Atlantis. While interesting in and of

itself, it becomes extremely intriguing when found to be identical to an earring belonging to

Eveleen. This existence of this object in ancient layers of soil suggests that it was lost circa

1628 BC, shortly before the island was destroyed by an huge volcanic eruption. The Project

suspects Baldie intervention in the eruption and intends to send a team back in time to

investigate.

The Russian time travel group cooperates with the Project to send a small ship with six

agents aboard back to Kalliste, the ancient name of Thera before the eruption. There they

travel to Akrotiri, the major town on the island, where they discover signs of Baldie tech in the

volcano vents both on land and in the sea. Later a group of Baldies are seen on the beach,

apparently looking for indications of THEM. They also find a Baldie ship in the sea, but can't

locate the Baldie onshore base. They do find a couple of Fur Faces, a alien sentient species

encountered only once before; however, they do not seem to be allies of the Baldies.

The natives are anxiously awaiting word from their oracle, but nothing new has been

spoken in the past few months. Some Kallistans have left the island anyway, terrified by the

frequent earthquakes and the steam, smoke, ash and rock ejected by the volcano. Linnea

claims to be an Egyptian Earth-Goddess priestess to infiltrate the Oracle's household and is

there when the seer orders the evacuation of the island.

This novel is driven by the imminent threat of eruption, so is more like a hit and run than

the almost leisurely exploration in the other tales in this series. The team are all disappointed

by the lack of opportunity to study this almost unknown culture, but Linnea, the newcomer, is

particularly frustrated by the time limit.

Recommended for all Norton fans and anyone who enjoys tales of ancient societies in a SF

setting.

Nice Baldies?, January 16, 2003

Reviewer:

This book is an exicting story which moves at a brisk pace. But it is part of a series, and in

this book the principle heavies are revised to be ecologists. It does not fir the earlier

portrayals of the baldies at all!

In the first two books of the series the baldies were the (ruthless) dominant race of an

interstellar empire. The revision of their charactor and motives does not fit the earlier books in

the series. That was a very jarring element to me.

Even so, the book was an excellent read.

Welcome addition to great old series, January 9, 2003

Reviewer:

When archeologists discover a modern earing burried beneath tons of lava, they see an

anomoly. Scientists at the time project see something different. A possible attempt by aliens

to redirect human history, destroying the modern world. A small team of project agents are

sent back to the ancient Greece of Minoan civilization--and Atlantis itself--to ensure that

humanity's destiny is not subverted.

Before the ancient civilization of Kalliste was destroyed in a huge volcanic explosion, it had

achieved technological levels not seen again until modern times. Clearly the world would have

been transformed had it survived--but would the transformation have been for the better?

Authors Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith add a degree of ethical complexity to a science

fiction adventure. The project agents think that they are doing the right thing, but so do the

two separate groups of aliens that they face.

The Time Traders series formed a part of many baby boomers introduction to science

fiction and still holds power today. Norton and Smith's decision to add ethical complexity to

the adventure gives strength to ATLANTIS ENDGAME. Young adult readers will find Norton and

Smith's style to be approachable while more mature readers will find a deceptive intellectual

subtlty. Emotional depths, however, are only hinted at.

ATLANTIS ENDGAME

A new Time Traders adventure

Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith

Contents

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

CHAPTER 27

CHAPTER 28

CHAPTER 29

CHAPTER 30

CHAPTER 1

“SURE WE HAVE the new software,” Ross Murdock said, scrupulously unaware of his

landlady peeping up at him over the tops of her spectacles as she drowned her potted

plants for what was probably the fourth time that day. “It’s a fine spreadsheet. Plenty of

new features.”

Gordon Ashe, following him up the stairs inside the hall, looked amused, but said

nothing until Ross had shut the apartment door behind him and locked it.

“Nosy landlady, I take it?” Ashe commented.

“The tenants here are better than TV, she seems to think. At least from the gossip she

rattles off to Eveleen when she can catch her.”

Ashe and Ross both surveyed the plain living room with its garage-sale furnishings.

Eveleen had done her best to add homey touches: a brightly colored braided rug on the

floor, a few very hardy houseplants, and one or two ancient artifacts brought up from the

past—nothing to raise eyebrows, should anyone drop in who knew about such things. But

Ross and Eveleen knew the real stories behind them—sometimes even had known the

person who had made them, thousands of years before.

Ashe shook his head. “Seems like a lot of trouble to go to, if you ask me. Project Star

would be happy enough to issue you living quarters, and the ones married couples get are

fairly plush. A lot nicer than this, if you want to know the truth.”

“But underground. And it’s still there, under their control. I’ve worked for the Project

just about my entire adult life, and I respect everyone in it, but I want my own place. My

own space. And so does Eveleen,” Ross added.

Ashe opened a hand. “But what happens when you’re gone on a mission? It’s Project

Star that handles your pay and banking, right?”

Ross nodded. “Yeah. They renew our yearly lease when it comes up. They cover the

utilities. And they pay the cleaning service that comes through here once a week. Those

guys dust and even water the plants.” Ross gave the leaves of a spider plant a flick. “So,

yeah. They hassle the details, but that’s only when we’re gone.”

Ashe, amused, said, “I confess I don’t see the difference. Plus you’ve got the added

annoyance of a nosy landlady.”

“But she’s not our boss. Maybe it’s the street kid in me, but I get itchy at the thought

of living under the boss’s roof, however benevolent.” Ross shrugged, looking sardonic.

“Makes no sense, does it?”

“Contrary,” Ashe replied. To him, it didn’t seem all that long ago when he was assigned

the nervy, distrustful troublemaker Ross Murdock, straight from juvenile court. Ross had

become one of the best agents in the ultrasecret Project Star in spite—or maybe

because—of his readiness to apply action first, and palaver afterward, to unexpected

problems.

Ashe dropped down onto one of the chairs, giving Ross a skewed smile. Did the

landlady also see the signs of the street kid in him?

ROSS BROUGHT OUT a couple of mugs of coffee, giving his old partner an appraising

glance. Why was Ashe so silent, staring through the coffee as if he were trying to scry his

future in it? Gordon Ashe was a tough, lean man around middle age, sun browned and fit.

His blue-eyed gaze was direct and intelligent, his dark hair worn short. His plain brown

suit conveyed a semblance of bland city-civilization, but he looked and moved like

someone who preferred being out of doors.

To break the lengthening silence, Ross said, “The landlady doesn’t seem to believe I’m

a computer software salesman.”

Ashe blinked and looked up. “I take it you don’t think I played a convincing buyer?” he

asked, the corners of his mouth deepening.

“Well, neither of us looks much like the TV version of your standard computer geek. In

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