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Time traveler Simon Morley leaves his voluntary exile in the 19th century to visit the 20th century of his origins and finds himself drawn into a desperate attempt to alter the events of history and prevent the onset of World War I. Combining meticulous historical research with a suspenseful plot, this long-awaited sequel to the author's classic Time & Again (1970) explores the delicate nature of cause and effect while simultaneously telling a timeless story of love and loss. A good title for most sf collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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YA?A long-awaited and exciting sequel to Time and Again (S.&S., 1986). Finney returns to the secret government project that studies time through time travel. Undercover agents Si Morley and Rubin Prien continue to test Dr. E.E. Danziger's theory: the past still exists and can be reached. In the previous book, Si left the present to marry the love of his life, Julia, and live in the 1880s. Here, he becomes curious about the future and returns to the present to check on it. Sketches and photographs make the time and place come alive. This is a real page turner, loaded with nostalgia, detail, suspense, and a mind-boggling ending, but it is necessary to have read the first book to appreciate it.?Linda Vretos, West Springfield High School, Springfield, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly
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In Finney's wonderful cult classic Time and Again (1970), Manhattan adman Simon Morley joined a secret government time-travel project, transported himself back to the New York City of 1882, fell in love and decided to remain in the past. This entertaining sequel, which traces Simon's attempts to alter a course of events in 1912 and thereby prevent WWI, lacks the magic and urgency of its predecessor but is diverting nonetheless. Bidding goodbye to his 19th-century wife, Simon first revisits the late 20th century, where remnants of the ``Project'' propose another experiment to redirect history. Finney (who also wrote The Body Snatchers) makes the most of this creaky premise as Simon, leaping back to 1912, meets Al Jolson, witnesses a dirigible launch, circles Manhattan in a biplane and befriends vaudeville actors. To complete the experiment, Simon must help Major Archie Butt-an aide to President Taft-return to the States from a crucial diplomatic mission. The hitch is that Butt is sailing on the Titanic-and Simon, who joins him on the ship's maiden voyage, must desperately try to stay the hand of fate and keep it from sinking. Like Time and Again, this mind-stretching escapist adventure is studded with period photos and news clippings that function as an integral part of the story. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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In this sequel to the cult classic Time and Again (LJ 10/1/70), our protagonist is still dreaming of going back in time to mend the world. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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A sequel to the classic Time and Again (1970) that, like many reprises of a once-good idea, fails to live up to the original. The novel continues the adventures of 30ish Si Morley, who while working for the Project, a secret US government research program investigating the possibility of time travel, abandoned his mission to live in the 1880s with the woman who is now his wife, Julia. Although quite at home in 19th-century New York City, Si decides to visit the present once more. Appropriately prepared- -plenty of gold coins for changing into dollars--he sits on a bench on the Brooklyn Bridge and, by visualizing the time he wants to move into, finds himself back in today's Manhattan. Within a few hours Ruben Prien, a historian and old Project hand who believes that events in the past can be changed to affect the present, has located Si and arranged a meeting. Funding has dried up for the Project (which still exists despite Si's attempts to destroy it), but interest in parallel time continues, says Ruben; in fact, he has an assignment all lined up for Si: to prevent the outbreak of World War I, without which the 20th century could be ``the best, the happiest, the human race ever knew.'' Si travels to 1912 in search of the mysterious Z, a man commissioned by Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft (though political rivals, both wanted peace) to sail to England with messages that will prevent the conflict. Si's leisurely hunt for Z often seems more a tour of vaudeville shows and New York landmarks--though a voyage on the Titanic is also necessary--than an urgent quest to save the world. The past turns out to be more obdurate than expected, and Si is left making plans for the great blizzard of 1888. Numerous old photographs and historical factoids pad the book. Zestless.