Thursday, March 31, 2016

Timeliner by Charles Eric Maine (Corgi, 1955)



TIMELINER!

The fascinating and provocative story of Hugh Macklin--an alien lost in endless futures--fighting desperately to return to his own era.
 Here we have a late fifties cover adorned with abstract art--the sort of art that doesn't really tell us much about the story inside the book.   There's a man--presumably the protagonist--fractured into six tiny squares.  There's a hazily-rendered back view of a naked woman.  And the background is a mix of random lines and swirls in a fetching shade of grey.  It's all rather bleh.  Give me a science fiction cover depicting rockets, doughty astronauts and scantily clad space amazons in metallic bras any day!

 For the record, the book is about a man whose consciousness travels through time, jumping from host to host like the hero of "Quantum Leap".   It's a well-written, if not particularly great book, with a nice twist at the end.


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