Patton’s Spaceship

by John Barnes

Release: January 1997
Format: Novel
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

After the hyperviolent killing of his family, private eye Mark Strang morphs into a self-taught military operative, fighting in a 1960s alternate, Nazi Berkeley against those-who-would-control-all-timelines.

I classify the Timeline Wars as alternate history (or timelines) more so than time travel, but within those timelines, Mark does travel to different epochs.

The current president was a Nazi; his opponent in the 1960 election had been Strom Thurmond, and the paper seemed to be in hysterics about Thurmond the “sore loser” having the termerity to criticize the government that had won the election. Their reference to him as an “ultra-liberal crazy” came very close to making me laugh out loud. . . I suppose context is everything.

DEBUT

Patton’s Spaceship (HarperPrism, January 1997).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.