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Title: A trip through history and back again
Review: Richard Bowes' From the Files of the Time Rangers is one of those novels that fans of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and J.G. Ballard's Vermillion Sands should check into. It's a novel in stories, each story able to stand on its own, but all becoming something different together. It's a mosaic structure that Bowes uses to take trips into the various corners of Western history, and it works beautifully. If you like your contemporary fiction to reflect the roots of where we came from, this book is for you. At once science fiction in its conceit of time travel, and fantasy in its methods. Time travel for Bowes seems to be an act of memory and remembrance. After reading this book, you'll have a hard time forgetting it.
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