Saturday, June 11, 2005

Timeliner


Timeliner by Charles Eric Maine. I love old science fiction books, especially pre-1960. There is such a wonder about the universe. Readers definitely get a pre-Moon landing perspective. This is an old paperback I picked up and loved immensely. It is about a guy that does a Quantum Leap type of experiment and catapults himself forward in time into other people's bodies. Catch is, in order to jump again, the body has to die! He ends up going so far forward he starts to repeat time and ends up solving his own murder back in the present. Excellent story, and I wasn't expecting it to be. I can't find anything else by this author though. Here is the text from the book:

Timeliner
He was catapulted out of his own time into a chain of wondrous futures--a fantastic and compelling adventure in science fiction.
Timeliner! The fascinating and provocative story of Hugh Macklin--an alien lost in endless futures--fighting desperately to return to his own era.

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