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Timescape
Published 1980 by Simon & Schuster · 412 pages
Nebula · 1981
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Gregory Benford on these ballots
4 award entries · 4 books · 1 wins · 1978–1989
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Synopsis
In 1998, scientists facing an ecological catastrophe attempt to send a warning message backward through time using tachyon beams. In 1962, a young physicist at the University of California begins detecting inexplicable interference in his experiments.
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