- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Forge (Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765305798
- ISBN-13: 978-0765305794
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,725,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
In Need of A Shortcut,
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This review is from: A Shortcut in Time (Paperback)
What a shame that this book took eighty or so pages to really get going, because from thereon the time travel aspect was thoroughly enjoyable.
Josh Winkler finds a pathway through town, Euclid Heights, Illinois, that can transport you into the past or future. He finds a mystery girl turning up from 1908, and then it gradually builds up to the interesting bits. The ending leaves you a little surprised, though with time-travel you must expect things not to always remain the same when you get back to your own time. It certainly deserves a 4 star rating, and in the Time-Travel ratings it may not be the greatest tale of all time, but if you're a TT freak you shouldn't miss it by any means.
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3.3 out of 5 stars (42 customer reviews) 31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Be careful where you run in the rain . . .,
By Michael K. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Shortcut in Time (Paperback)
There are basically two kinds of time travel stories. There's the Sprague DeCamp/Robert Silverberg kind of story, full of large, historymaking events, and the Time Patrol to protect the continuum, and knowledgeable time travelers making things happen. And there's the Jack Finney kind of story, about ordinary people dealing with small-scale events in out-of-the-way towns and trying hard simply to cope with things that happen to them willy-nilly. Dickinson has written a warm, funny, affecting example of the second kind of story. Josh Winkler is a somewhat feckless artist living in Euclid Heights, Illinois, where crosswise shortcut paths known as "perp walks" disturb the town's gridded layout. He's married to a doctor, the sister of his brother Kurt's best friend when they were kids, before her brother drowned in the town pool and Kurt suffered permanent brain damage. Their fifteen-year-old daughter, Penny -- the best-drawn character in the book, I think -- is about all that's still keeping them together. Then Josh gets caught riding his bike in a storm on one of the perp walks and is tossed fifteen minutes into the past. But young Constance, who appears soon after, has a worse time of it, dragged into our own era from 1908. Can she get back? Can she adapt to our world? And what happens if someone else becomes an unintentional time traveler? Dickinson's style is quiet and thoughtful; he almost lets the story tell itself. An excellent piece of work.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Unanticipated consequences,
By Andrew W. Johns "ResQgeek" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Shortcut in Time (Paperback)
One of the reviews on the back cover compares this book to the time travel stories of Jack Finney. As I started reading this, I wasn't sure what that meant, but as the story progressed, it definitely developed an atmosphere that was very similar to Finney's style. However, this is a very different story, one that is much less upbeat in its consequences. The narrator, Josh Winkler, is an accidental time traveller, and while his actions in the past have an impact on the present, the changes he brings about don't necessarily make life easier or happier. While time travel is the hook in this story, it really seems to be more about the choices we make and their often unanticipated ramifications. The story opens with a tragic incident early in Josh's life, and ends with a number of unresolved questions lingering. The story doesn't come together in a neat package, tied together with a pretty ribbon at the end, which perhaps makes it all the more compelling.
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Why was this published?,
By Weaver Hall "Weaver" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Shortcut in Time (Paperback)
This book started very well. It had me interested, curious, thinking ahead. Good signs for a book. But then some holes start to appear and they slowly get bigger and bigger. And then after 287 pages it just ends on page 288. How did this get past the editors? Was this a joke by the publisher? "Hey lets see how many people will buy a incomplete book?"
The story was very interesting until he gets back to his "second time around" life. There are lots of hints leading you to think there is more to it. But nothing leads anywhere and all of a sudden it is over. What about the brother? How can there be a daughter if there was never a union with the mother? Time travel flaw!! I just can't get past how angry I am about the way this just fizzled out! I don't understand how others can give it a good review. It started strong and just FIZZLED and then THUD!!!! I am P#$$ed Off! |
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