Up the Line

Name: Up the Line
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 9798212886949

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Basil Langdon

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/28/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Up the Line is a ribald, Byzantine tale of time-tourism from multiple Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author Robert Silverberg.It’s 2059 and Jud Elliott—former law clerk and failed Harvard history student—is at loose ends. Having left his previous job out of boredom, he finally takes a position as a Time Courier showing tourists around medieval and ancient Byzantium. Maybe that unfinished master’s degree will come in handy after all …Jud is careful and he (mostly) plays by the rules, not wanting to get on the wrong side of the Time Patrol. But, on one trip up the line, he meets and falls in love with his great-great-multi-great grandmother and suddenly the rules don’t seem as important anymore …

About Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is the winner of many Hugo and Nebula awards for his novels and short fiction. His work began appearing during the 1950s; he has received high acclaim for, among many others, such novels as Lord Valentine’s Castle (the first in the Majipoor series), Tower of Glass, Dying Inside, and Nightwings.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Edgar on August 29, 2020

Una bogeria canalla de paradoxes temporals molt divertida i paròdica, situada a Constantinoble, un lloc poc habitual en què se situen històries de viatges en el temps. En certs aspectes ha envellit una mica malament i hi ha bromes i situacions que amb la perspectiva actual serien inadmissibles. Però......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on February 10, 2023

This is a time travel comedy SF from 1969 with sex, drugs (but no rock’n’roll) playing with a Freudian theme. I guess it tried to be novel, daring and progressive when it was written, but actually hasn’t aged well. I read it as a part of the monthly reading for February 2023 at Hugo & Nebula Awards:......more

Goodreads review by Mireia on September 25, 2020

Si s'haguessin descobert els viatges en el temps, estic segura que, tal com passa en aquest llibre, els farien servir les persones riques per fer turisme. La novel·la de Silverberg planteja unes paradoxes interessantíssimes, també m'ha agradat que sigui un llibre molt fresc i lleuger. Però a mi m'ha......more

Goodreads review by Scott on November 12, 2012

A peculiar book, containing some delightful time-travel shenanigans and some of the very best science fictional handwaving and lampshading ever written about the paradoxes involved. Truly, that section of the book is a glory and a wonder. Up the Line is also very, very much of its time in one unfort......more

Goodreads review by Space on November 06, 2012

It was good. It was real good. Really really good. You know my favorite thing about reading time-travel books is the paradoxes. I like a good yarn with a lot of temporal paradoxes. And this had a lot of those. It also had a lot more Greek history than I cared to know. Really, he beat the shit out of......more