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Time Hunter: Child Of Time by George Mann and David J. Howe
01/12/2007 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Telos. 149 page enlarged paperback. Price: £ 9.99 (UK), $16.95 (US), $19.95 (CAN). ISBN: 978-1-84583-104-2. Buy Time Hunter Child Of Time in the USA - or Buy Time Hunter Child Of Time in the UK  check out website: www.telos.co.uk
The 'Time Hunter' series has finally reached its conclusion and this book ties up story threads that have been running through the complete series.
'Time Hunter' novellas published by Telos are a series of stories featuring two characters. Honoré Lechasseur is an ex-GI and sometime spiv who lives in London in 1951 and is a time sensitive. Emily Blandish is a time channeller from the far future who emerged in a London market place in 1951 with no knowledge of her previous life. Together, they are able to travel through time investigating mysterious occurrences. A different author writes each novella and they feature a specific adventure with a main story arc about the two characters also following through each one.
A mysterious set of bones are found in a London house in 1951. When Honoré investigates, he finds they are out of time. The time snake that only he and other time sensitives can see is twisting in many directions. He hasn't seen Emily for a while and they have tried to avoid time meddling since seeing their parallel selves make a selfish profession out of it.
Of course, they cannot resist this challenge and once again throw themselves into the time-snake attached to the mysterious bones. They arrive in a blighted place and find it is London in the year 2586 where civilisation is on the brink of destruction.
What follows is typical of all the previous stories in that it packs plenty in but overall, it leaves a sense of an idea that started out with promise but became too small to hang a whole series on. I like the two main characters and feel they are ill-used by their stories. In the end, they were bigger than the idea, too.
Sue Davies
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