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More fabulous fabulation on the theme of time-travel and its paradoxical implications for the unfortunate Trafalgar Hurlock and the rest of the Evolution Limitation Volunteers. In E.L.V. I, Trafalgar's team had discovered John, the practical joker who invented the mice who have destroyed the post-sleep world's data banks of history. Now they need to put things right for the future -- but that proves easier said than done. Bouncing around between the Stone Age, Florence in 1506 and a Roman amphitheatre, every correction that the team makes seems to lead to another historical paradox.
The Evolution Limitation Volunteers must navigate a series of escalating temporal paradoxes as they attempt to repair the historical data banks destroyed by a mischievous inventor. Trafalgar Hurlock leads his team through a chaotic series of jumps across human history, from the Stone Age to Renaissance Florence and ancient Rome. Each intervention intended to stabilize the timeline inadvertently triggers further complications, forcing the team to constantly adapt to shifting realities. The narrative maintains a frantic pace, tracking the group's struggle to outmaneuver the consequences of their own interference in the past.
The premise suggests a lighthearted approach to the complex subgenre of time-travel fiction, prioritizing comedic mishaps over hard scientific rigor. The narrative structure relies on the classic trope of historical tourism, using disparate settings like the Roman amphitheatre to create immediate, high-contrast conflict. Readers likely find the focus on the Evolution Limitation Volunteers' incompetence to be the primary driver of the story's humor. The work appears to lean into the absurdity of its own internal logic, offering a playful examination of how even well-intentioned interventions can unravel the fabric of history.
Page Count:
240
Publication Date:
1999-01-01
Publisher:
Voyager
ISBN-10:
0006498892
ISBN-13:
9780006498896
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