A title like From the Files of the Time Rangers makes me think of great pulp classics, full of mind-controlling villains and heroes with insignia and needle guns. But Richard Bowes' creation is a much more complex work than that: a Mosaic Novel created from short stories that appeared in SCIFICTION and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction which have been reworked to a continuous flow. As the author so concisely puts it, this is a book with "chunks of fantasy and pieces of science fiction, myth and politics, ancient gods and cable TV embedded side by side". All these elements blend into one fantastic piece, one where humans are not totally pawns and gods are not totally powerful.

(Source: Golden Gryphon Press)