#scifi nerds, I need your help identifying an #SF novel I read decades ago.
The main characters each possess some sort of device which gives them essentially infinite power. They use it to create and destroy whatever they want, to travel all over the planet, basically anything.
They don't understand how the devices work. Turns out they're connected to giant machines—maybe originally for terraforming?—that are starting to break down, and the knowledge of how to fix them has long since been lost.
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@jik maybe Moorcock's 1981 "Dancers at the End of Time"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancers_at_the_End_of_Time
Yes! I think that's it as well! (I was a huge Moorcock fan in the 1980s)! It sounds wicked familiar! @reallyzen @jik
@DoomsdaysCW @reallyzen Hmm. So.
It turns out I actually have all three of the Dancers at the end of Time books on my bookshelf in the "books I haven't looked at in decades" section.
So it _could be_ that.
But I read the Wikipedia plot summaries, and they don't sound quite like the book(s) I remember.
Here's my theory: I probably read them when I was a pre-teen, so maybe a lot of the stuff in the synopsis just went completely over my head then, and didn't stick in my brain?
@DoomsdaysCW @reallyzen The thing that's tripping me up is that it seems like time travel plays a significant role in the Dancers books, and I don't remember that _at all_ in the books I read.
But like I said, maybe I just forgot?
As a teen I read a classic book in which one character stood out to me above all others, such that I remember the entire book as being about him. @25 years later I re-read it, and realized that the character I remembered so strongly doesn’t even appear until @ page 250!