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The Time Hoppers is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, first published by Doubleday in 1967. The plot concerns Joe Quellen, a 25th-century bureaucrat charged with investigating "hoppers", travelers from the future whose presence in the past has been documented for hundreds of years, and his brother-in-law, Norman Pomrath, an unemployed blue collar worker who ends up being presented with an opportunity to travel back in time.
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- Author
- Robert Silverberg
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 182
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Moewig, Sidgwick and Jackson
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780575040403
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“Sie sagten, die übervölkerte Welt sei schön. Die gläsernen Hochhäuser der Stadt, die sich dicht aneinanderreihten, das bunte Gewirr des Pöbels, der sich um die Schnellbootrampen drängte, das Spiel der Sonnenstrahlen auf Hunderten von glitzernden Umhängen – darin, so behaupteten die Ästheten, offenbare sich Schönheit.”
Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg
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