The Other End Of Time

The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This the second time I read this book. In truth, I do remember bits of the first time. As I was reading it, some memories did come back. I remember the technology. Travel by tachyons cloning. The theory is the slowest a tachyon can travel is the speed of light. A computer breaks down anything into information and then transmit the information from one portal to another at the maximum speed a tachyon can travel. (billions of lightyears in a second.

The drawback is sending the portal from one location to another. If the advanced civilization is sending a portal from one location to another, it must be done physically. There is no FTL in this series so the trip is under or at the speed of light. A trip may take thousands of years. Once the portal arrives at its destination, travel between the portals is almost instantaneous.

Another aspect, remember (if you are familiar with Star Trek TOS) How Dr. McCoy did not like transporters? In the Eschatopn series, it becomes a reality, If you are familiar with computers and networking, you know that a packet creates copies of the original packet in case the information gets lost in transit, the copies are sent out. You see this in this series. The advanced civilizations can make copies and even manipulated the information the tachyon packet is carrying.Other than that, you have the classical aliens announce they arriving, aliens are here, aliens captures a few humans...make copies etc.

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