"MAN AGAINST TIME
"John Lux was an electronic scientist, a level-headed industrialist, an ordinary twentieth century man -- at least he thought he was an ordinary man.
"...until he discovered he could teleport himself.
"...until he discovered that forces 200,000 years beyond his time were trying to destroy him.
"...until he discovered that civilization of the future was being pampered into extinction in a kindergarten world and he was the only man in all eternity who could save it.
"But until John Lux discovered how to use his dormant neuro-radionic powers, he was a helpless pawn in a time war -- and both he and the planet were doomed..."
That's from the back cover. This book is, including an author's postscript, 160 pages long and not very substantial. I might go still further and say Time War is both an insufficient homage to A.E. Van Vogt and that its plot doesn't make a great deal of sense. At times it reads like a comic book of the time period, at times it reads like a much older book that the author dusted off for (re)publication, at still other times it feels like the author is going for a certain word count, recapitulating previous events at every opportunity.
If I were you I wouldn't bother with Time War -- not that you're likely to come across it anyway. Its author was never famous or even that well known, and I doubt that any publisher will ever bother to run this book through a printing press again. It's an artifact of what science fiction once was, and as such it can be occasionally charming if consistently unimpressive.
Lin Carter, by the way, was better known for his fantasy books than his works of science fiction. I haven't read any of those books and I probably never will.
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