Talk:The Time Traders

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Opinion about Sherwood Smith's Writing Removed

I've removed this sentence that was tagged for citation. It was making an unwarranted and subjective comparison between Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith.

Sherwood Smith's collaborative volumes are more polished than Norton's solo work, while retaining the feel of the classic entries in the series.^{[citation needed]}

I have not read the non-Norton books in the series. But at any rate I note from Amazon reviews that there's a wide division of opinion about whether Norton, Smith, or Pauline M Griffin wrote the "best books". And that's exactly why Wikipedia avoids personal opinion, but allows the cited opinion of established professionals. Leptus Froggi (talk) 17:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Baldies and time travel

the "Baldies", a mysterious alien race that has used time travel to alter Earth. Is this something Smith added in the books she wrote? I've read the first four books in the series several times each, and the only connexion between the Baldies and time travel is in the first book; after learning that the Reds are looting one of their ships, the Baldies use the Soviets' time machines to come forward to the 20th century, blow up the Soviet base, and then return to their own time, blowing up the Soviet base there/then before leaving the Earth. There is nothing to indicate that the Baldies have their own time machines.