by James Blish · Livros do Brasil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723813579
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«O Xadrez do Tempo» is the science fiction novel by James Blish, published by Livros do Brasil in paperback (192 pages, in Portuguese).
The novel starts from the Dirac Transmitter, an instant communications device that gives an advantage to the terrestrial empire. Captain Robin Weinbaum discovers that someone intercepts his transmissions before they are sent, and the plot turns into a game of temporal paradoxes.
This novel was originally published as «The Quincunx of Time» in 1973; the 1994 Portuguese edition includes the translation by António Porto and the cover by A. Pedro.
For readers interested in 1970s science fiction and the work of James Blish.
James Benjamin "Jimmy" Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel A Case of Conscience won the Hugo Award. He is credited with creating the term "gas giant" to refer to large planetary bodies.
