Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!jo%SCRC-VIXEN@MIT-MC.ARPA From: jo%SCRC-VIXEN@MIT-MC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Time After Time/Time and Again Message-ID: <17109@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 16:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17109 Posted: Wed Feb 29 16:04:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 03:53:46 EST Lines: 24 From: Jonathan OstrowskyIn V9 #38, Andy Leslie reprinted a list of sf that was originally published in Playboy and later anthologized (by Playboy Press, I assume). The stories included the following: Double Take Jack Finney ! see P.S. P.S. Double Take is the short story that begat a GREAT book! ( and a POOR film) Time after Time Shmaltzy but fun. If memory serves me correctly, the Finney book in question is "Time and Again", a fine time-travel novel that features a wonderfully detailed recreation of another time and place (New York City in the late 19th century). "Time After Time", a Nicholas Meyer film, is in no way related to the Finney book. The movie takes place primarily in modern-day San Francisco; the plot concerns Jack the Ripper's escape from Victorian London via H.G. Wells's time machine, and Wells's pursuit of him. I disagree with Andy on this film: although the plot is highly implausible, the photography and acting (Malcolm McDowell, the wonderful Mary Steenburgen, and David Warner) are first-rate, and Meyer creates a high level of suspense. All in all, one of my favorite fairy tales.