From Time to Time
- by Jack Finney
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- From Time to Time by Jack Finney (Simon and Shuster, February 1995).
Finney’s sequel to Time and Again initially finds Si Morley living a happy life in the 19th century with his 19th century family, while The Project in the future never even got started because he prevented the inventor’s parents from ever meeting. But vague memories linger in some of the Project member’s minds, and Morley can’t stay put.
—Michael Main
They’re back there in the past, trampling around, changing things, aren’t they? They don’t know it. They’re just living their happy lives, but changing small events. Mostly trivial, with no important effects. But every once in a while the effect of some small changed event moves on down to the—
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: the 1880s
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: 1912
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: home decade of the Project
- Timeline Models
- Multiple Naive Timelines
- Remembering Other Timelines
- Sensing Unfamiliar Timelines: Major Prien has vague memories of the timeline with the project.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Anachronistic Music, Dance, and Other Creations: 🎵 Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head . . . 🎵
- Changewars: Danziger and the Jotta Girl v. Morley and any other timeline changers.
- Fix History!: Stop WW I
- Future Is “Down”: “Back in the banks behind us is the past.”
- Messing with Someone’s Ancestors: Somehow, Si’s previous messing with Danziger’s parents has been undone, and the Project is back in business.
- Never Change the Past!: Once again, Danziger comes down on the side of never change the past.
- Public Notice from a Time Traveler in the Past: At least one stuck time traveler placed a classified ad in a newspaper: “Allice, Alice, I’m here . . ..”
- Stuck in Time: Si recalls several time travelers who were stuck in a time not their own.
- True Histories: True story of why the Titanic sunk.
- Real-World Tags
- Archibald Butt
- HMS Titanic
- Teddy Roosevelt
- World War I: With the Project back again, Morley accepts another mission to try to end World War I.
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- From Time to Time by Jack Finney (Simon and Shuster, February 1995).