Up the Line is a ribald, Byzantine tale of time-tourism from multiple Nebula and Hugo Awardāwinning author Robert Silverberg.
Itās 2059 and Jud Elliottāformer law clerk and failed Harvard history studentāis at loose ends. Having left his previous job out of boredom, he finally takes a position as a Time Courier showing tourists around medieval and ancient Byzantium. Maybe that unfinished masterās degree will come in handy after all ā¦
Jud is careful and he (mostly) plays by the rules, not wanting to get on the wrong side of the Time Patrol. But, on one trip up the line, he meets and falls in love with his great-great-multi-great grandmother and suddenly the rules donāt seem as important anymore ā¦
Up the Line is a ribald, Byzantine tale of time-tourism from multiple Nebula and Hugo Awardāwinning author Robert Silverberg.
Itās 2059 and Jud Elliottāformer law clerk and failed Harvard history studentāis at loose ends. Having left his previous job out of boredom, he finally takes a position as a Time Courier showing tourists around medieval and ancient Byzantium. Maybe that unfinished masterās degree will come in handy after all ā¦
Jud is careful and he (mostly) plays by the rules, not wanting to get on the wrong side of the Time Patrol. But, on one trip up the line, he meets and falls in love with his great-great-multi-great grandmother and suddenly the rules donāt seem as important anymore ā¦