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Carregando... Time after Time (1979)de Karl Alexander
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. From a batch of books sent by Tor Books. Got very excited to read, until I started, then realized not only had I read it before, but I also saw the movie. Oh well. ( ) In 1893, H.G. Wells builds a time machine. Jack the Ripper steals it and travels to 1979 San Francisco. Wells then feels obliged to follow and bring the escaped killer to justice. It's a dumb concept, but Mr. Alexander makes an entertaining tale of it. He paints a believable picture of a temporal cross-cultural experience as Wells (and to a lesser extent, Jack) attempts to traverse 1979 San Francisco, fraught with 1893 Victorian assumptions and biases. --J. H. G. Wells, le fameux auteur de La Machine à explorer le temps et de La Guerre des Mondes, a bel et bien construit un appareil capable de voyager à travers les âges. Quand il se décide à en faire une démonstration à ses amis du tout Londres de 1893, il est loin d’imaginer qu’un de ses hôtes, le chirurgien Leslie John Stephenson, est en réalité Jack l’Éventreur. Et lorsque Scotland Yard sonne à sa porte à la recherche du meurtrier, celui-ci s’empare de la machine et s’enfuit dans le futur – San Francisco, en 1979. Wells, décidé à mettre fin à ses agissements et à le livrer à la justice, n’a d’autres choix que de partir à sa poursuite ; mais à son arrivée dans l’avenir, il va découvrir un monde qui, s’il ne manque pas de… charmes, fait montre d’une violence à même de faire passer Jack l’Éventreur pour un enfant de cœur… This novel accompanies the entertaining film of the same name where H G Wells follows Jack the Ripper forward in time to 1979. The book follows the same course, but has the added bonus of both H G's reflections on and marvelling at the technological advances he sees and his disappointments and disillusionment with the crime and injustices he experiences, which tell against the Utopian ideals he had anticipated for future society. All this gives the book added depth as well as many funny and some horrific and disturbing moments. Well worth tracking down. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieJack the Ripper (1) Pertence à série publicadaHeyne Science Fiction & Fantasy (06/3943) Está contido emTem a adaptaçãoFoi inspirada por
In 1979 Karl Alexander burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds had actually invented a time machine.When H.G. Wells showed his friends his fantastic time machine he never suspected that his college friend, Leslie John Stevenson, was in truth the Jack the Ripper.But, when Scotland Yard detectives show up at Wells's house looking for Stevenson, he steals the machine and flees to the future--1979 San Francisco. Knowing that he was responsible for the infamous murderer's escape, Wells pursues the Ripper into the future.Once in San Francisco, Wells realizes that he must now save a city, and a particular lovely young woman, from a new reign of terror at the hands of the feared Terror of Whitechapel. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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