In Another Time

by Jillian Cantor

• Release: March 2019
• Format: Novel
• Genres: Romance, Music and Musicals, War
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

“Do you have a time machine,” he’d asked his father. It was hard to fathom, unbelievable even as he’d said it, but the idea fascinated him with little-boy wonder.

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1930 to 1939: Most of the story of young Hanna and Max.
• Circa AD 1940 to 1949: When Hanna awakens with no memory of the war.
• Circa AD 1950 to 1959: Hanna’s later life and Max’s eventual landing spot.

Timeline Models

• Multiple Naive Timelines: Max changed the Feinstein’s fate and maybe made other changes, but the changes are not examined in any detail.

Time Travel Methods

• Time Portal: The hallway is a wormhole-based portal.

Themes

• Save “Jimmy”!: Max saves his friends, the Feinsteins.
• Save “Lois”!: Max wants to save his love, Hanna.
• Self-Defeating Acts: Although not discussed, Max’s saving the Feinsteins is a self-defeating act.
• Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: The travel killed Max’s parents and is making Max ill.

Real-World Tags

• The Holocaust
• Nazi Rise to Power: 3573
• World War II

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From 1931 ⋙ to March 1933. Round trip. Note: In his first trip, Max sees Feinstein’s wife taken by the Sturmabteilung (SA).
2. From April 1932 ⋙ to summer 1934. Round trip. Note: Max sees the SA pulling Hanna away.
3. From March 1933 ⋙ to probably after the war. Round trip. Note: Max saves the Feinsteins' leaving them in the future.
4. From early 1934 ⋙ to 1950. Round trip. Note: Max visits Elsa and Hanna, returning to July 1934.
5. From 1935 ⋙ to probably after the war. Round trip. Note: Max saves Frau Feinstein’s sister and her son, leaving them in the future.
6. From 1938 ⋙ to 1958. Note: Unable to save Hanna but knowing that she is safe in the future, Max runs as far forward as he can.