· REVIEW: Time and Again by Jack Finney Jennie D Reviews Fiction / first person protagonist / New York City / Time-Travel 33 Comments When this book appeared in the Daily Deals sometime last year, I snapped it up. An artist signs up for a top secret government time-travel experiment that transport him to s New York. Based on Jack Finney's illustrated novel "Time and Again." Advertisement. Powered By. IMDB. The next stop in my time travel marathon (November being Science Fiction Month) and by far the best yet is Time and Again, a little known but much loved novel by Jack Finney that handles a fantastic premise -- a government project sends a man eighty-eight years into New York City's past -- with more imagination, sensuality and logic than any time travel story I've read. This is a wonderful book 4/5(20K).
Jack Finney. Time and Again. "Sleep. And when you awake everything you know about the 20th-century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is Janu. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have never heard the name Richard Nixon." Did illustrator Si Morley really step out of his 20th-century apartment one night. Jack Finney is the author of more than a dozen novels. He lives in Mill Valley, California. "A fanciful novel, a blend of science fiction, nostalgia, mystery and acid commentary on super-government and its helots." The New York Times "One of the most original, readable, and engaging novels to have come along in a long time.". Time and Again (), a work of science fiction by Jack Finney and the first in his Time duology, tells the story of a young man enlisted by the government to travel back in www.doorway.ru he falls for a woman from the nineteenth century, he must choose between the past and the present. Finney was an acclaimed science fiction writer, and Time and Again was his breakout novel.
Time and Again is a illustrated novel by American writer Jack Finney. The many illustrations in the book are real, though, as explained in an endnote, not all are from , the year in which the main action of the book takes place. A sequel, From Time to Time (), was published during the final year of the author's life. The book left room for a third novel, apparently never written. edit data. Mr. Finney specialized in thrillers and works of science fiction. Two of his novels, The Body Snatchers and Good Neighbor Sam became the basis of popular films, but it was Time and Again () that won him a devoted following. The novel, about an advertising artist who travels back to the New York of the s, quickly became a cult favorite, beloved especially by New Yorkers for its rich, painstakingly researched descriptions of life in the city more than a century ago. Time and Again. Jack Finney. Fantasy Masterworks Volume eGod. "Sleep. And when you awake everything you know about the 20th-century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is Janu. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary.
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