The book is classified as SF due to the time travel element but don’t expect aliens, runaway technology etc. The book continues as both do over the twenty-five year span and each time it’s different. World events as they remember them are going haywire thanks to their presence. One answer they wish they never got.Īnother response that goes wrong is from the State Department. They put a couple hundred ads in newspapers and magazines.

They want to get in touch with scientists at top universities to explain what’s happening to them. They want to find out why their return was so much later than before. Over a year goes by before she remembers him and they start up again. Her father refuses to let this nutty stranger see her. It’s the start of a beautiful friendship until….1988. She doesn’t have time for him until he mentions “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters” which haven’t been made yet. It was written and produced by Pamela Phillips. Its put together by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. He sees a poster for a movie called “Starsea.” It’s hugely popular and he goes to see it. He goes into Redding for his bi-yearly trip for supplies. He’s a recluse on his own farm in Northern California. In a Jazz club Sidney Bechet plays the old blues song, “I Had It But It’s All Gone Now.” That freaks him out and he and Sharla go to London. They go to Paris and live a sexually decadent lifestyle. He goes back to Vegas and picks up Sharla at one of the tables.

This time he’s cautious about how much money he makes. His Doctor says his heart is in great shape and can’t understand why he even getting a physical. He tells her about his wealth and she thinks he’s a nut and tells him never to contact her again. He goes to the beach where he met Linda and there she is. He builds a multi million dollar consultancy company called Future, Inc. He goes to Las Vegas where he can bet on sports and anything else that comes up. He bets a bundle on the World Series and cleans up. Using his knowledge he gets an older student to place a bet for him on the Kentucky Derby.

His roommate will end up in a disastrous marriage and commit suicide. It takes some getting used to especially since he knows what will happen to everyone. He’s a college student at Emory University in Atlanta. His mind is in his eighteen year old self. One day while on the phone to her he keels over at his desk and dies. Jeff Winston is the News Director of an all news radio station in New York. The book won the 1988 World Fantasy Award. I know I’ll be reading it again in the near future. This is one that doesn’t go to the second hand bookstore. It’s something a lot people think about and this book will make you think even more. This will also appeal to and mainstream fiction readers.

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