Part of the A. E. van Vogt cache in Oxfam from which I got Empire of the Atom was this, Quest for the Future.This one is more blatantly a fix-up; but even beyond that, blatantly makes no sense at all. Even having finished it, I have no idea why Selanie and her father were selling gadgets from the future as trinkets on a train.
But even then the characters appear to have emotions and thoughts and are more human beings than, say, Greg Bear's people.
The "Far Centaurus" thread probably made sense on its own; but as a means of time-travelling to the future, going in a spaceship to get cold-sleep seems like waay overkill; and the way he just happens to fall into friendship with the richest man on the planet is weird.
I'm kinda split on whether VV's introduction of incomprehensible tech and events is good or bad. Sometimes, with other authors, this can work. I think in this case it doesn't; the entire thing is just so arbitrary and disconnected.
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