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The Technicolor Time Machine - Harry Harrison Book Review

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"Very funny book, I laughed out loud all the way through. A 60's film maker has little money to make a film, and decides to film a historical epic using a time machine which he has just acquired. Lots of chaotic fun ensues, especially with the crazy Norse berserker who is to play the leading role......(for some crazy reason Ottar turns up in a bill the galactic hero book also) Very funny, especially when the director starts to lose his marbles under the stress towards the end."
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy story on current Earth
Time Travel: - largely backwards/past
Parody Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - business executive
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - wild
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
Terrain - Water - Forests
Earth setting: - 20th century - general past
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - some scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - impregnation/reproduction
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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