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A Time of Changes
- Author
- Robert Silverberg
- Narrator
- Grover Gardner
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 22 June 2005
- Run Time
- 7 hours 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
What to expect
Set in the distant future, when human beings populate a variety of planets, A Time of Changes examines the society of Borthan. For thousands of years, Borthan has been ruled by a covenant that teaches that the individual self is to be despised. The sharing of personal thoughts and feelings with another represents the most heinous crime.
Kinnall Darival, an exiled prince of the country of Salla, has always outwardly observed this covenant. But inwardly, he commits a grave offense when he falls in love with his bondsister, Halum. By law, he cannot reveal his affections, nor act on them. But when an earthman reveals to him a miraculous drug that enables two persons to completely bare their souls to each other, Kinnall begins a covert revolution.
Critics Review
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“No matter if Silverberg is dealing with material that is practically straight fiction, or going way into the future…his is the hand of a master of his craft and imagination.”
Los Angeles Times
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“Robert Silverberg’s versatile, skeptical intelligence controls a lavish and splendid imagination. A Time of Changes is a canny fable of freedom and the ecstatic communion of souls.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Psychologically intense…[Gardner], a veteran audiobook narrator…uses pacing and intonation to add interest and variety.”
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“Psychologically intense.”
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Details
- Author
- Robert Silverberg
- Narrator
- Grover Gardner
- Duration
- 7 hours 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 June 2005
- ISBN
- 9781481560030
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction
Synopsis
Set in the distant future, when human beings populate a variety of planets, A Time of Changes examines the society of Borthan. For thousands of years, Borthan has been ruled by a covenant that teaches that the individual self is to be despised. The sharing of personal thoughts and feelings with another represents the most heinous crime.Kinnall Darival, an exiled prince of the country of Salla, has always outwardly observed this covenant. But inwardly, he commits a grave offense when he falls in love with his bondsister, Halum. By law, he cannot reveal his affections, nor act on them. But when an earthman reveals to him a miraculous drug that enables two persons to completely bare their souls to each other, Kinnall begins a covert revolution.
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