# ID a SF book/series -- Engineer time travels, Poland becomes center of civilization?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [January 26, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-sf-book-series-engineer-time-travels-poland-becomes-center-of-civilization/931539 "2021-01-26T17:26:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-sf-book-series-engineer-time-travels-poland-becomes-center-of-civilization/931539/21 "2021-01-28T20:10:43Z")

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Bought it too 🙂

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-sf-book-series-engineer-time-travels-poland-becomes-center-of-civilization/931539/22 "2021-02-10T07:02:18Z")

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Just finished _The Traveler_. That was an entertaining read, with a lot of focus on engineering and Roman society. I’m really impressed witht he level of background knowledge the author obviously has. I could keep up to some extent and had fun guessing what things were intended for. The developments at the end were a nice surprise and I was sorry to have the book end already, made me curious of what was going to happen afterwards.

Thanks to @Chronos for the suggestion and to @CalMeacham for wriing!

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-sf-book-series-engineer-time-travels-poland-becomes-center-of-civilization/931539/23 "2021-02-10T13:48:53Z")

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> [@Tusculan](#):
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> Just finished _The Traveler_ . That was an entertaining read, with a lot of focus on engineering and Roman society. I’m really impressed witht he level of background knowledge the author obviously has. I could keep up to some extent and had fun guessing what things were intended for. The developments at the end were a nice surprise and I was sorry to have the book end already, made me curious of what was going to happen afterwards.

Your welcome for those kind words. I’m really touched.

If you get a chance, add a review to the Amazon page.

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