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This science fiction novel is an extension of Andre Norton’s Time Traders series. A joint team of Russian and American Time Agents, including Ross Murdock and his wife Eveleen, travel to a planet where a Russian team of Time Agents have disappeared without a trace. This is the same planet as in Galactic Derelict, which in our current time is populated by savages but has an abandoned archive of the voyage tapes needed for interstellar travel. The Russian team had gone to an earlier era, when the planet had a thriving civilization with many varieties of aliens co-existing in harmony, in hopes of finding additional voyage tapes. The joint team travels in time to a century after their disappearance, to find out what happened to the missing team and to complete their mission. The mix of aliens and cultures is fascinating, and the denouement is surprising. A pleasure to read.