The Big Time

At the time of the release of this ebook edition of The Big Time, it remains the only Hugo Award-winning work in the public domain. That makes it a very special treasure indeed! The Big Time tells the tale of a group of servicemembers who work in facilities isolated from regular space-time. They're involved in a war conducted by two shadowy groups that spans time itself, with all of humanity as pawns on an ever-changing historical battlefield. It explores a fascinating range of themes including time travel, the purpose of war, isolation, and love in the face of it all. Confined to a single room outside of time itself, a small band of soldiers wait out an endless war being fought across all of human history. Claustrophobic, inventive, and surprisingly intimate for a story about a war spanning millennia, The Big Time is a landmark of science fiction that won the Hugo Award and remains strikingly fresh today. Perfect for readers who love their science fiction cerebral, character-driven, and unafraid of big ideas. The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)