Since Viehl penned Star Doc back in 2000, readers
have enjoyed the clever twists and turns in the life of Dr.
Cherijo Torin set on worlds with many of the same issues in
our current time expanded onto the broader canvas of a
universe populated with several sentient species and their
cultures, some closer to human than others.
In A DREAM CALLED TIME, Cherijo has returned to herself
after a 5 year absence. While her personality was in hiatus,
her life, including the relationship with her husband and
daughter, was lived by a stranger. For her, only a night has
passed, but she finds a different look in the eyes of her
loved ones. Her personal problems need to be put aside when
a new danger involving a form of the virulent sentient
crystal appears at the mouth of a nexus in space that leads
to a time far into the past, before life was seeded on the
worlds she knows today.
Can she fulfill the function she was built for and save the
lives of this timeline? What sacrifices will she be asked to
make in order to set things right?
It is always difficult to end a series, perhaps especially
when the ensemble of characters and their issues are written
so vividly, but Viehl does an outstanding job of tying the
books' storylines together in a conclusion spanning both
space and time.
Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has
emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers
technology far more advanced than anything she's ever seen.
Before she can unravel the alien ship's mystery, Cherijo's
own ship is sucked into the rift and transported through
time. Unless she can find a way to reopen the rift, they
will remain trapped in another time. And Cherijo will never
see her family-which she's only just been reunited
with-again...
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