But I was never quite sure why – was it just meant to be a psychological aid to the self-hypnosis? If it had any more significant function, then the project leaders seemed to be overestimating their ability to recreate the past *exactly*. For one thing, a lot supposedly depended on recreating an atmosphere of the time and place the time-traveler plans to travel to exactly. On the other, there are a lot of things about it that stretched credulity. Self-hypnosis? On the one hand, the mechanism is elegant in its simplicity. This was the first problem I had with Time and Again. The project turns out to involve time-travel, accomplished not by futuristic machines or magic stones but by something much simpler: self-hypnosis aided by and combined with a recreation of period detail down to the smallest instance. Cautiously agreeing to meet the man, Major Ruben Prien, at the project’s headquarters in Brooklyn the next day, Si quits his job and sets off on a venture into the unknown. Apparently based on testing that occurred years earlier, when Si was in the army, he’s been identified as a good candidate for the project.
One day he’s approached by a mysterious man about a secret government project. Simon Morley, our narrator, is a 20-something artist working in advertising in New York City in 1970. Checking the Amazon ratings – trepidatiously, to avoid spoilers – I saw that of the 600+ reviews, more than half were 5-star. I don’t read many time-travel romances, but two of my favorite novels – Outlander and The Time-Traveler’s Wife – feature time travel and strong romances. A time-travel novel with romantic elements? Right in my wheelhouse. I had first heard of it a long time ago and been intrigued. When this book appeared in the Daily Deals sometime last year, I snapped it up. Jennie D Reviews Fiction / first person protagonist / New York City / Time-Travel 33 Comments
JanuREVIEW: Time and Again by Jack Finney
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