Triangulation: End Of Time edited by Pete Butler
01/12/2007 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Parsec INK. 155 page enlarged paperback. Price: $12.00 (US). ISBN: 978-0-6151-5280-6. Buy Triangulation End Of Time in the USA - or Buy Triangulation End Of Time in the UK  check out website: parsecink.org
This is a collection of twenty short stories where the authors were briefed to base their stories on the theme of the end of time. Under such a criteria you might have expected to see all the stories written about the apocalypse or at lease the end of the universe. Oddly enough, only one story does this, 'Eshu And The Anthropic Principle by Geoffrey Thorne, although it is debatable as to whether it's the end or beginning of time or just re-starting. The other authors work out from different meanings from a personal ending to other forms of termination. As such, different stories will please different folks and choosing my favourites doesn't necessarily follow that they will be yours as well. As none of the authors are vastly recognised names, most do have their own websites and if you get a taster from this selection can look into them later.
'That Ain't a Mosey' is a combination old west style story when the town inhabitants are having a vampire evening.
Tim Pratt's 'Morris And The Machine' shows a problem with tampering with your own time-line. 'Conversation In An English Pub' by D.K. Latta has a time traveller killing off genre writers before they write their books to ensure a sanitised future.
The final time travel story, 'Final Episode' by Katherine Shaw is a lot happier affair as a traveller from 1979 arrives in 2005 and rather quickly has to take on what is going to happen before going back. This one has to be my favourite for the insight and comparison and a neat ending.
There are graphic violence warnings above some of the stories which seems very PC. I doubt if books such as this would be given to minors to read and I've seen too many SF fans unhappy with the politically correct brigade to think it has a place in our genre so perhaps editor Pete Butler is being a bit too cautious.
It would be fair to say that there are stories in here that should please everyone. Those that don't appeal are certainly readable.
GF Willmetts
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