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Name: Great Work of Time

Author: John Crowley
Year: 1989
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Genres/categories: Fantasy, Award winners, Science fiction

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9780553293197
0553293192
Winner of the World Fantasy award for best fantasy fiction novella in 1990.
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1990.

His name is Caspar Last, and this is the unique chronicle of the vacation he took from the twentieth century. It begins - or does it? - when Caspar, a genius, poor of course, and resentful at that, decides to use his "time machine" to bring back a modest fortune. It begins - or maybe it doesn't - with a mysterious bequest to a secret Otherhood charged with preserving and extending the British Empire at any cost. From the bold colonial days of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes through the wide-eyed and wondrous possibilities of the present to a strange and haunting future of magi and angels, of men and many races other than our own, John Crowley's time-travel masterpiece surfs bravely along "the infinite, infinitely broken coastline of Time" to tell a story that takes place neither here nor there, but everywhen.
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