I just finished Time Nomads 12/21/2002. I liked Time Nomads. The flashback story was excellent, and the the regular story line was real good, and the hints of Ryan having a child out in the Deathlands were very interesting. I did notice a few things wrong like the refrence to Ryan's eyes insted of eye, and his Rugar becoming a Smith & Weson for a page. Other than that I had only 1 complaint about this book. I think that it was stupid to have Krysty and Ryan cross paths 10 years before Pilgrimage To Hell. I would give it a 9 but Krysty's cameo drops it to an 8.

Salamat

With eating hundred year old food the possibility of getting food poisoning makes sense, and Ryan gets a dose of it at the beginning of this novel. I was hoping the time travel would have something to do with the gateways themselves, but instead this story deals with the memory of a past event in Ryan's mind while he is in a poison induced coma.

This novel, through Ryan's memory, takes him back to the time with the Trader, with the warwags, before the first book. I liked this novel, it had more of a Pilgrimage to Hell feel to it, and was interesting to see events with the war wags as well as the first time Ryan saw Krysty, and also the prelude of sorts to the novel Seedling, involving the mother of Ryan's child.

A better book overall then the last two or three books, good action, and a suspenseful ending getting out of the ruined redoubt before it blows. The death of the Baron was anticlimactic though, he was the one character in the book that was kind of weak and boring.
A good adventure.

OK so this was the first DL novel I had read. It was quite a good introduction to the series, with a qick into to the usual crew and then a recap of Ryan when he was in Trader group.

However, apart from the information given as to a possibilty that Ryan had a son, this title just strikes me as and average when compared to previous titles that I have subsequently read.

As I said an average novel, not bad but not the best.

This is simply an awesome book, simply because it was yet another bold and ingenius idea for Laurence James to think of a way to take us readers back to the good 'ol War Wag years.
We are not only taken back to the interesting past - but shown just how Ryan and Trader hooked up!! I always loved the Trader - who doesn't? He was Ryan's father for crying out loud! That cigar chewing bad ass old man always made the series that much more interesting.
Whether it was a traderism or better yet - he was in it - always promised to be an interesting yarn. This also intros Sharona - Dean's mother - and when he was concieved.
Simply Laurence James brilliance...
Rest easy Laurence, God do I miss you and your wonderful writing style.

It was great to finally know a little bit of Ryan's past, as it really fills in some blanks that I've been wondering about.