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Time Tunnel, a Science Fiction Novel Paperback – January 1, 1964

by Murray (pseudonym of Will F. Jenkins) [cover painting by Jack Gaughan] Leinster (Author)

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140 pages
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English
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Pyramid Books [1964]
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January 1, 1964
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JIBAS2W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pyramid Books [1964]; First Edition (January 1, 1964)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 140 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces

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Woodman34

A good read for people of all ages

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2017

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Been looking for this book for years, This is a classic si-fy That is suitable for reading for people of all ages. I would recommend this book to anyone.

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Amazonian

From Johnson's Flood to Saint Louis

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2014

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This novel published during the only season of the notable TV Series "The Time Tunnel" has the time travelers visiting places and times other than those visited in the series. Having this work by Murray Leinster, noted science fiction writer enriches a "Time Tunnel" aficionado's experience. An interesting read.

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Neat But Predictible Novel - Nothing To Do With The TV Series!

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2011

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Murray Leinster was quite the science fiction writer and was one of the Golden Age of Science Fiction's most prolific and imaginative one. He wrote a story in the 1940s that imagined the internet (A Logic Named Joe) and another that imagined parallel universes (Sideways in Time), as well as writing alternative histories, TV novelizations, etc., etc.

Murray used to knock together juvenile novels, too. One of which is by Pyramid Books, Time Tunnel. Unlike the TV series of the same name with scientific apparatus and two men lost through the time dimensions, Murray imagined a tunnel that was linked with two metal objects. One object was in the past and its same object occurred in the present. This created a "tunnel" where one could walk across and find he was in 1804 France.

Murray makes the same statement several times: is the universe an uncaring one where it does not matter if Man is here or not, or is the universe a purposeful one that has time tunnels as safety valves to prevent Man from totally extinguishing himself!

Despite these lofty ideas, the story rolls along in a quick fashion. The characters are not all that well developed and neither is the plot. In fact enough hints are dropped so that by the middle of the novel, you're pretty well assured how it will end. There were a few surprises though, despite its predictability, that made the story overall enjoyable.

Is it possible to go back in time and not accidentally kill your great great grandfather? Questions like this regarding logic and time paradox were peppered through a story of a pair of students who through a miraculous coincidence bump into each other in Paris as China prepares for nuclear war against Formosa and the West. Can this be undone?

Their former professor is willing to try. Being unhappily married and wanting change, he turns a time tunnel into a conduit for selling perfumes and old newspapers. Clearly not his purpose.

The story continues in a meandering sort of way but ends satisfactorily. A few more well developed characters could have made this a great tale. My main reason for reading this is to see the difference to the 1960s television program and there are many!

As it is, the book is good to stuff in ones' pocket and pass the time on the subway.

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The Doctor

different books with same title & author

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2011

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Well it certainly took you guys long enough to get me the right book three times and even after I gave you the code on the book. Well 1 out of 12 is still an excellent run.

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John F. Donigan

There are TWO books!

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2018

Both books are written by Leinster. He had a book published named Time Tunnel, before the TV series ran, with a black cover. He was asked to write a book based on the series so he wouldn't contest that new book. That book, The Time Tunnel, has a white cover, and was followed by Timeslip.

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Paul Weiss

A clever twist to resolve the paradox!

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2007

From the very birth of the conception of time travel, sci-fi authors and scientists alike have wrestled with the difficulties of time travel paradoxes most commonly expressed in the question of what would happen if you killed your grandfather during your trip to the past. In "Time Tunnel", Murray Leinster has treated his readers to what was probably the first (and quite possibly the best) instance of the infuriating mental tangles that one can encounter when the immutability of the progression of real time collides with the flexibility of time travel.

Leinster has crafted a positively ingenious combination of characters into a fascinating novel of high adventure that will both delight and fascinate his fans - a scientist who felt compelled to change the past in order to rescue the future from an impending atomic war between China and the US; young lovers who, fearing for their lives in a war-torn modern world, felt compelled to flee to a safer past; a 20th century burglar and con artist who realized the early 19th century was ripe for the plucking; and a playboy who was horrified to watch his grandfather die unmarried and childless.

The story begins in 1964 when Harrison, completing research for his PhD thesis in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, discovers long-buried correspondence showing that, in 1805, a gentleman named de Bassompierre had written to certain scientists handing out modern knowledge long before its acknowledged discovery. In one case, for example, "He wrote to Laplace, the astronomer, assuring him that Mars had two moons, very small and very close to its surface. He also said that there were three planets beyond Saturn, and that the one next out had a period of eighty-four years and two moons, one retrograde. He suggested that it should be called Uranus. He added that in the year 1808 there would be a nova in Persis, (which there was!) and he signed himself very respectfully, de Bassompierre." When Harrison and his friend, Pepe Ybarra, reach the conclusion that de Bassompierre was a time traveler who is attempting to change the future by handing out modern ideas before their time, the high jinks begin in earnest and the time travel conundrums drop into the readers' laps at a dizzying pace.

And the ending ... sigh! What a wonderfully clever simultaneous resolution of both the adventure plot-lines and the time travel paradoxes.

Recommended as a scintillating addition to the library of any reader who savours classic sci-fi from the pulp era.

Paul Weiss

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pony

WASTE of time

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2017

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If you think this book has anything to do with the TV series - think again. Yes, it's got the right title. Yes, it's written by the same author who wrote other books based on the TV series. But this book is in the same boat as Tony and Doug - floating around out there, making no sense, confused and just plain LOST. I am usually not a harsh critic but this one simply has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. If I could go back in time - I would save my money and NOT buy this dull and directionless book.

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