Saturday 19 February 2022

Three Clues To Time Travel

(It is snowing here so why not blog?)

There Will Be Time, I.

Jack Havig's distraught mother:

"'Johnny. Two of him. Then one again...The other one!'" (p. 11)

An sf reader should be able to understand that.

Eleanor Havig again:

"'You don't realize how often he disappears.'" (p. 12)

After a day-long disappearance, a man with face hidden by a hat and topcoat returns Jack to his parents, then apparently vanishes while Tom Havig embraces his son.

Title and blurb have already told us that the novel is about time travel but we should forget that and appreciate how the text introduces the concept.

Jack growing up in Senlac is like Clark Kent growing up in Smallville and Philip Wylie's Hugo Danner growing up in a small Colorado town. Both Jack and Clark have a close friend called Pete. Pete Ross accidentally learns Clark's secret whereas Pete Dunbar merely hears disguised bragging from Jack.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

What I thought of, if I found a seemingly lost child, considering how I have no mysterious powers, would be either to summon the police or take the child to a police station. Or a hospital, church, fire station.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

Of course but "Uncle Jack" knew where young Jack lived.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Yes, I knew that. I was wondering what I could or should do in an analogous case.

Ad astra! Sean