I have posted a lot about Jack Havig's birthplace, Senlac, before.
"Senlac is a commercial center for an agricultural area; it maintains some light industry, and that's about the list." (p. 10)
A real-sounding place. These two opening pages of Chapter I could have been the beginning of a mainstream novel set in 1933. The science fiction starts on p. 11 although the reader does not necessarily recognize it as such yet. Eleanor Havig is distraught:
"'Johnny. Two of him. Then one again.' She choked. 'The other one!'" (p. 11)
Those in the know might recognize bilocation as a side-effect of time travel. When young Johnny/Jack travels a moment into the past, he temporarily coexists with his younger self. This is a very small beginning. The historical past and the future lie ahead of Jack and of his readers.
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As a matter of logic, I don't buy time travel with an inalterable timeline. There would have to be some sort of intelligence overseeing things and forcing them to stick to the script -- a Time Patrol built into the structure of the universe. But history is extremely contingent.
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