The Whispers

by Dan Parkinson

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." --Edwin Limmer It is a fateful day when Lucas Hawthorn awakes in his own home to find Edwin Limmer standing before him. Lucas first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345413806
• ISBN13: 9780345413802
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Master of story telling best living author

Having read all of Mr Parkinson's westens and navel fiction I finally came to this series.. It was magic absolute magic. sceens were painted in a few words and the humor is gut busting. the science theory behind the story is perfictly logical and I had no trouble following the plot as I read the book in bits and pieces on a trip to yellowstone over a week. Mr Parkinson does not describe every blade of grass and building in a sceen. he lets the readers mind fill in the details with wonderfully chosen strokes of his pen. and the dialog! the word ring true , exactly as some one in the position in the story should say the sly humor of what happenes when people get what they ask for. I wish I were as good a writer as Mr parkinson

4 dimensional story with 2 dimensional characters

My first impression of The Whispers is that it's hard to follow. Plot fragments skip from place to place and time to time, while characters skip through those fragments, not always in a consistent temporal direction. When the story introduced and described its theory of time, space, light, and gravity and the various modifications and corruptions involved, I had surprisingly little trouble understanding.Why? Because the early narrative led me through time travel from a first person perspective. I don't mean that the reader follows a character through time travel, but that the reader follows *himself* through time travel while working to comprehend the first few chapters. This is either masterful writing or a bizarre accident.That accomplished, the methods of time travel, their results, and their odd and occasionally hysterical interactions make a fascinating plot and send the reader into extended "what if" musings that often replace the book for a while.No doubt the science behind this is pure fiction, but I'm willing to allow poetic license for a work of fiction that keeps its pseudo-science internally consistent. An earlier customer reviewer criticized the book's historical accuracy, but that's not necessarily a problem in a story where the past is a fluid concept. "History" at the end of the book doesn't match "history" at the beginning of the book, why should either match the real world?The characters in The Whispers are, unfortunately, 2-dimensional. They often seem to be placeholders and reference points rather than actual individuals. The book has occasional insights into human behavior, a few of them brilliant, but they don't illuminate the characters.

Great book!

If you like science fiction, you'll really like this book. I'm only 15, so I didn't really understand it all, but it's a really good book! I highly recommend it to science-fiction fans.

Good Characters, Engrossing Story, and Time Travel Too!

An engrossing story that kept me turning the pages late into the night. I'm currently waiting for more volumes. A series I plan to keep up with.