Walter Braden Finney was a master of genre fiction, whose works often straddled the lines between thriller, science fiction, and history. His innovative approach to time travel and his meticulously researched depictions of the past, particularly New York life, garnered him a devoted following. Finney expertly wove suspense with nostalgic atmosphere, creating narratives that resonated with timeless human fears and desires.
This handsome new book combines three Finney favorites (The Woodrow Wilson Dime, Marion's Wall, The Night People) in an omnibus edition that brilliantly displays his bold and unmistakable imagination. Certain to delight anyone with a penchant for penetrating imaginary realms of fantasy and adventure.
One of the most beloved tales of our time!Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret government experiment.Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past.A story that will remain in the listener's memory, Time and Again is a remarkable blending of the troubled present and a nostalgic past, made vivid and extraordinarily moving by the images of a time that was ... and perhaps still is.
The classic novel of paranoia immortalised on film as THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
The continuing escapades of Simon Morley, a time-travelling New York advertising executive engaged in a U.S. government program to change history. Morley, who now has a wife in the 19th Century, returns to the present to take his orders for his next assignment: prevent the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and avert the outbreak of World War I. By the author of Time and Again
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 13: 9780684801056 Albert Einstein sagte, wir ähnelten Leuten in einem Boot ohne Ruder, das einen gewundenen Fluß hinabtreibt. Ringsum nehmen wir die Gegenwart wahr, weiter nichts. Die Vergangenheit in den Kurven und Biegungen hinter uns vermögen wir nicht mehr zu sehen. Aber sie ist dort vorhanden. Eine winzige Erweiterung von Einsteins gigantischer Theorie ist, daß der Mensch irgendwie in der Lage wäre, das Boot zu verlassen, ans Ufer zu treten und querfeldein zu einer der hinter uns liegenden Biegungen zurückzugehen. Si Morley ist ein geeigneter Kandidat für dieses geheime Projekt der US-Regierung, und er findet den Weg zurück ins New York des Jahres 1882 - und in eine völlig andere Welt."
Eine Reise in die VergangenheitSi Morley kann es zunächst nicht glauben, als ihm die Chance zu einer Zeitreise geboten wird. Trotz aller Skepsis bricht er schließlich ins 19. Jahrhundert auf, um den mysteriösen Selbstmord des Vaters seiner Freundin aufzuklären. Er erlebt das Abenteuer seines Lebens …
