Time and Again (novel)

The other shore of time ( original title Time and Again ) is a science fiction novel by American author Jack Finney, in 1970, on the topic of time travel. The remarkable thing about this novel is that it is not time travel with the help of technical possibilities, but by mental forces of time travelers are possible. The novel was first translated into German by Thomas Schlück and was published in 1981 by Heyne Verlag.

Action

In the fall of 1970 in New York as an artist largely unsuccessful artist Simon "Si" Morley Ruben Prien, a major in the U.S. Army, recruited for a secret government project. Without knowing what it is about - except that he was perhaps the only possible candidate of a million people - he announces his job at an advertising agency and seeks to address the Prien gave him. There is a large warehouse, in which a moving company is that uses the secret government project to camouflage. By Dr. Danziger, the head of the project, he learns that the possible implementation of time travel is to be examined here. It will be as accurate as possible destination and destination time simulated to the candidates physically, and especially mentally to adapt to the appropriate historic surroundings. This is carefully monitored by historians to avoid anachronisms. The fictional theory described in the novel exist past and present parallel. Accordingly, it should be possible to time travel candidates through a kind of self-hypnosis, move into any desired time when the surrounding area is approximately the same time and in a given present.

Kate Simon's girlfriend has her grandfather, Andrew Carmody, an adviser to President Cleveland, a stamped at January 23, 1882 letter with the strange place that the sending of this letter should be the fire destruction all over the world ... cause ... With this letter in hand grandfather committed suicide. Simon is at Danziger forward to traveling to this time to observe who has sent this letter. Each apartment at Dakota then an apartment is decorated in the style and with the technology of the year 1882. After several days of adaptation succeeds Simon, switch over for a short time into the year 1882.

In his second extended trip he observed a man at the throw of the letter and finds out the address of the sender. After his return to the year 1970, his knowledge is compared on the present with the general, to determine whether the present was changed by his journey through time. Because apparently nothing has been changed, Simon receives from Danzig 's permission the man continued to watch.

On the third journey he explores the address - a small pension - on, rents there and met the man, Jake Pickering, personally. He feels for Julia, the niece of the landlady, attracted, but it is considered by Pickering as his fiancée. The next day he overheard a conversation between Pickering and Kate's grandfather, in which Pickering blackmailed them.

Back in 1970, he is told that a change was effected by the presence of another time traveler, what Danziger wishes to close the project. However, it is overruled and resigns. Under new management, the project will continue and even Simon decides to keep going. Once back in 1882, he learns that Julia and Pickering have the engagement officially completed.

Simon tells Julia of Pickering's blackmail and they decide the handover of money by a provisional holey wood wall in Pickering to observe office. It is a dispute between Pickering and Carmody and the room goes up in flames. Simon and Julia are being discovered by Pickering and Carmody. At the last moment Simon and Julia can escape from the burning building. After experiencing Simon that this building until recently the seat of the World editor ( The New York World newspaper ) had been.

The disfigured by severe burns Pickering has now successfully assumed the identity of the deceased Andrew Carmody and lets Simon and Julia arrest. You geling to escape and out of the torch-bearing arm of the Statue of Liberty that stands in Madison Square at that time, they change to the year 1970.

First intrigued by the present, but then increasingly repelled by her, Julia returns to her time. When project Simon learns of the new line that he go back to the year 1882 and beyond Carmody Pickering President Cleveland should move to Cuba buy out the Spaniards and to declare a state of the United States, the U.S. problems with Fidel Castro in the to make the presence undone. Despite serious reservations, he says to. He ends his relationship with Kate and after a phone call with the former head of Danzig, he returns to the past. There he prevents Danziger's parents to know, so this was never born and the project has not begun. Simon remains in the 19th century.

Criticism

" The novel is one of the smartest and best -written time travel novels. "

Comments

  • The book is illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings. In the novel, Simon Morley claimed in some of them, that they were made by him.
  • In 1994, the novel won the French Grand Prix de l' Imaginaire in the category Best Foreign Novel.
  • The continuation in the stream of time (OT: From Time to Time ) was published in 1995.
  • Although it is a science fiction novel, the novel was viewed as detective novel because it contained less hard science fiction details. So he got into the United States the reader price of Murder Ink
  • Appeared in 1975 with Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, a similar novel in which a protagonist travels through self-hypnosis in a hotel through time. 1980, the novel was made ​​into a film Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, under the title.

Expenditure

English editions

  • Time and Again. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1970, ISBN 0-671-24295-4

German translations

  • The other side of time. Heyne, München 1981, ISBN 3-453-30702- X
  • From time to time. Bastion - Luebbe, Bergisch- Gladbach in 1995, ISBN 3-404-28225-6
  • Time traces. ( Along with the continuation in the stream of time ) Heyne, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-52431-6
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