The Eschaton Sequence is a trilogy of three Science Fiction novels: The Other End of Time (1996), The Siege of Eternity (1997), and The Far Shore of Time (1999).
Essentially, this is a First Contact story as a group of humans are sent to investigate alien signals warning of the destruction of Earth by the malevolent Horch. The group of astronomers, led by Dan Dannerman of the Bureau of National Investigation, are taken prisoner by aliens.
Pohl uses many of the tricks he’s developed in past novels: alien technology, clones, bureaucratic bumbling, and tricky humans.
I’ve been reading Frederik Pohl since the early 1960s beginning with Drunkard’s Walk (the nude on the cover may have influenced my choice). I also enjoyed the Pohl and Kornbluth collaborations.
I enjoyed The Eschaton Sequence but be aware it’s 801 pages long with some tedious chapters. GRADE: B- (for all three novels)
I’ve always liked Pohl’s short fiction at least as much as his novels. Ranging from “The Tunnel Under the World” to “The Meeting” (a completion of a Cyril Kornbluth fragment CMK didn’t get too far with before his early death) to the likes of “Mute Inglorious Tam” and “Shaffery Among the Immortals”…
Todd, I prefer the early Pohl (and his partnership with Kornbluth) more than the later Pohl.
Same here!
One of the resaons may be that I read many of their stories in German translation in the 50s – when my knowlege of English was still rudimentary because we first learned French and Latin at school. and had just a few English lessons
Wolf, I took three years of Latin in school. I don’t remember much of it now.
I’ve been reading Frederik Pohl since the early 1960s beginning with Drunkard’s Walk (the nude on the cover may have influenced my choice).
Lol.
Neeru, you can imagine why a teenager would be attracted to the nude on the cover of DRUNKARD’S WALK.