Novel
Twice Upon a Time
- by Allen Appel
- (Carroll and Graf, April 1988)
Custer lives! And so do Crazy Horse, Thomas Edison, and Mark Twain. History is never dead for Professor Alex Balfour, whose unusual destiny imposes on him the most extraordinary adventures of all time. —from publicity material
I can’t stop it, you know that. It’s part of me. My father could do it, hell, maybe his father could do it. It has to be genetic, as much a part of my DNA as the color of my hair. The point is not so much why or how it happens, but what the purpose of it is. What is it I’m supposed to do? And does anything I do make a difference?
