Time Stream · #2

To Sail the Century Sea

G. C. Edmondson

TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA

The naval yawl *Alice* has returned to her own time, and Lt. Commander Joseph Rate had great difficulty explaining hs crew's absense-without-leave as a freak display of time travel.

He warned them how dangerous it could be. They ignored everything he said, and crippled the careers of good men for almost ten years. By then they decided that time-travel worked, and Rate's warnings had been forgotten.

So – Rate and the crew of *Alice* are off into the time stream once again, nursemaiding a landlubber scientist and a gun-crazy Company assassin. Their mission is to abort one of the pivotal encounters of history and make the world safe for democracy at last...

Published
1981
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G. C. Edmondson

G. C. Edmondson was the working name of science fiction author Garry Edmonson (full name: José Mario Garry Ordoñez Edmondson y Cotton) (1922–1995). During World War II he served in the U. S. Marines. According to the obituary published in Locus Magazine, Edmondson was born in Rachauchitlán, Tabasco, Mexico. Although generally called a science fiction writer he also wrote Westerns under the names Kelly P. Gast, J. B. Masterson, and Jack Logan. As he could also speak six languages he did translating work as well. His science fiction career began in 1955 with a story in Astounding. Over the years he produced several novels which gained some…