He returns to his own time, is caught up again in the secret project and finds himself in 1912. In 'From Time to Time,' Morley, who decided to remain in the past with his beloved Julia, grows curious about the future. Once again the hero is Simon Morley, an advertising illustrator who was recruited into a secret government project in 'Time and Again.' In that novel, Morley found himself transported to the Manhattan of 1882, when he fell in love in an era of gaslight and horse-drawn carriages and sought to alter the future. Finney is holding out to his readers in his new novel is another excursion into the past he recreates so well, this time to the years just before World War I. Total sales of that edition now exceed 200,000, Mr. Finney's beguiling combination of illustrated science-fiction, romance, history and mystery that their eagerness to share their pleasure with friends through recommendations and gifts has kept the trade paperback selling at 10,000 or 12,000 copies a year. But many of its readers were so enchanted by Mr. Finney's longtime agent, said the hard-cover edition of the novel, published in 1970, sold 27,000 copies. 'Time and Again' is something of a publishing phenomenon. And the perennially popular 'Time and Again' has been reissued in its trade paperback edition under Simon & Schuster's Fireside imprint. The company has ordered a first printing of 90,000 copies. Finney's 1970 novel, 'Time and Again.'Īfter 25 years, its sequel - 'From Time to Time' - is to be published in February by Simon & Schuster. And the statement probably sums up the feelings of the legions of fans of Mr. The story of its creation tells much about why it takes some authors such a long time to write a book. The novel is about traveling through time. That statement says a lot about Jack Finney's new novel.

Time and Again by Jack Finney