Jack Finney

About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again . The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape—through time travel—doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.

Un’intera città, Galesburg, Illinois (il cui college Finney frequentò da ragazzo) che resiste al progresso nelle sue forme più brutte e senza senso inviando dal passato convogli di tram e camion dei pompieri a scongiurare i pericoli della modernità. Una lettera lasciata da decenni e decenni in un cassetto segreto di una vecchia scrivania che innesca una incredibile storia d’amore. Una bottega all’apparenza normale in cui si trovano oggetti in grado di influenzare la vita di chi ne viene in possesso. Un condannato a morte che come ultimo desiderio richiede dei colori a olio con cui dipingerà sulle pareti della propria cella una porta che, forse, potrà condurlo alla libertà…. Sono solo alcune delle meravigliose e indimenticabili storie di tempo fuori dal Tempo raccolte in Amo Galesburg a Primavera, opera di un grande maestro della narrativa americana del Novecento e tra le più belle e affascinanti in assoluto della letteratura fantastica contemporanea.

An imaginative reconstruction of the people, events, newspapers, and courts of nineteenth-century America examines such period topics as the scandalous murder of a dentist, a tragic shipwreck, a lunatics ball, and more

Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again. Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic.

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved—the world as he knew it. First published in 1955, this classic thriller of the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy inspired three major motion pictures.

Małe kalifornijskie miasteczko Mill Valley w hrabstwie Marin. Pewnego dnia do gabinetu miejscowego lekarza, Milesa Bennella, przychodzi jego dawno niewidziana przyjaciółka, Becky Driscoll. Jest zaniepokojona dziwnym zachowaniem swojej kuzynki, która twierdzi, że jej wujek Ira zmienił się i jest całkiem inną osobą, niczym pozbawioną uczuć i emocji skorupą. Miles decyduje się odwiedzić rodzinę Becky, chcąc zweryfikować jej opowieść, ale niczego nie może potwierdzić – nie widzi żadnych różnic ani w wyglądzie, ani w zachowaniu Iry. Kilka dni później dowiaduje się jednak, że coraz więcej osób w Mill Valley zauważa znaczące zmiany u swoich bliskich... Pisarz Jack Belicec znajduje w piwnicy swojego domu tajemniczy kokon. W środku nocy jego wystraszona żona Theodora przybiega do doktora Bennella, by donieść mu o zatrważającym odkryciu – kokon zaczął zmieniać kształt i przemienia się w jej męża. Przerażony pisarz niszczy znalezisko. Wspólnie postanawiają rozwikłać zagadkę tajemniczych przemian w miasteczku. Udają się zatem po pomoc najpierw do kolegi Milesa – doktora Kaufmana, a potem do profesora Budlonga, autora artykułu opisującego niewyjaśnione wydarzenia w hrabstwie Marin na przestrzeni ostatnich miesięcy. Czyżby Ziemię czekała inwazja nieznanej formy życia tworzącej duplikaty ludzkich istot?

Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'. Most people know the story from seeing THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, the classic 1978 remake (one of the few Hollwood remakes said to better than the original, made in 1956) starring Donald Sutherland. Here's your chance to read the original source; a story that has resonated with readers and viewers for more than 50 years.

One of the most beloved tales of our time! Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret government experiment. Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past. A story that will remain in the listener's memory, Time and Again is a remarkable blending of the troubled present and a nostalgic past, made vivid and extraordinarily moving by the images of a time that was ... and perhaps still is.