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Time Stream Series
I first started this series in 1982 on a trip to Europe. I bought all the books at one point, but lost them when moving between college and now. I managed to pick up the first book recently again.
The Time Scout Series (co-author with Robert Asprin)
I have yet to read book #2, Wagers of Sin. A time travel series. Time travel becomes possiible after some space statation explodes in Earth orbit, creating "time strings". Each time string creates a gate between two times and places. Some gates are stable, in that they open and close regularlly between the two times; while others are unstable in that they open or close once or a few times or at irregular intervals. I find it overly convenient that all to many time gates open and close in the one location the books time station is set, that being in an excavated cavern under the Himilayas in 1910. Also, only up timers from the late 20th century find and use the gates on a normal basis. I'd expect down timers to have found gates and used them to explore time. And I'd expect them to have fought the uptimers occassionally. An interesting notion for gaming though is that time travelers can not kill, or save from death, anybody who is historically important. Nor can an up-timer be in the same time period more than once. If they overlap, they just vanish apparently. That rule can be used to keep players in line.
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