Pages) More about Time and Again at Powell's Books or īlackout by Connie Willis (2010), about a scientific project of the future which sends scholars into WWII London during the Blitz. Into New York history likely won't mind much if they stitch fact a bitĪgain is an unusual novel, well worth reading for its stillĪll-too-relevant questions about how, whether and why humans should or should Of the illustrations transparently artificial. Gardens while the narrator contends with heavy January snows make the fiction Illustrate the novel, although leafy trees and women hoeing vegetable Drawings and photographs supposedly made by the narrator liberally The city will likely enjoy comparing the look and layout of the present city York sometimes push the story into the background, but readers familiar with Tangential sight-seeing excursions into historic New Though these moral quandaries don't develop intoĬonflicts as intense as some readers might wish, they are thought-provoking. The twentieth century that did not exist in the 1880s - global warming was not Nothing when he realizes people he has come to care about are in danger?Īnother ethical question relates to the increasing environmental pollution in If it's wrong to risk tampering with the past, is it right to do

With the people he encounters in the past, and his life becomes increasingly entangled Inevitably, though, he is forced to interact

Si is warned to keep a low profile, so his visits to the Despite the potential dangers and the strict ethical rules he will have to follow, Si's curiosity about the past andĪn unexplained personal tragedy involving his girlfriend make the project Si Morley is an advertising artist recruitedįor a top-secret government project, a so-far-unsuccessful experiment in By a character who travels in time from New York around 1970 (the year the novel was

Time and Again by Jack Finney