![]() ![]() ![]() Both are out of print, but you can find the time travel stories pulled out of each into the 12 story collection About Time.īut despite this rich stockpile of time travel fantasies, that 72 story anthology, The Time Traveler’s Almanac, opens with a minor Richard Matheson short story, “The Death Ship.” Matheson wins again. Jack Finney’s first two short story collections, The Third Level and I Love Galesburg in the Springtime, are each about 50% time travel stories. I make allowances for Matheson because I enjoy so much of his work, but in the realm of time travel, I would prefer to see Finney’s legacy be the one to persist. It is not uncommon to charge Matheson with outright stealing of his premise from Jack Finney, just as his Hell House is accused of cribbing from Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. ![]() Time and Again was never filmed, but you’ll find many of its conceits in the movie Somewhere in Time, based on Richard Matheson’s Bid Time Return. The book was a big hit and remains beloved today, especially by New Yorkers who appreciate its researched and detailed journey back to 1880s Manhattan where a modern ad man slips back and finds his great love. Time and Again, published in 1970, is a novel length distillation of the time travel themes Jack Finney had been building shorts stories out of for the two decades prior. ![]()
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