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Description edit
"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have never heard the name Richard Nixon." Did... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Simon Morley: The time traveler.
- Julia: Add a description of this character.
- Rube Prien
- Andrew Carmody
- Jake Pickering
- Kate
- Einstein
- Byrnes
- Dr. Danziger
- Felix
- Ada
- Oscar Rossoff
- Esterhazy
- Martin Lastvogel
- Byron Doverman
- Katie
- Maud Torrence
- Winfield
- Messinger
- Harper
- Doc Rossoff
- Mary
- Thompson
- Gillis
- Fessenden
- Guiteau
- Jacob Pickering
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Broadway
- Dakota
- Central Park
- City Hall Park
- Manhattan Island
- Madison Square
- Paris
- Park Row
- Beekman Street
- Nassau Street
- San Francisco
- Gramercy Park
- Washington
- Montana
- Wall Street
- Cuba
- Vermont
- Madison Avenue
- Brooklyn Bridge
- United States
- Denver
- California
- Lexington
- Central Avenue
First Sentence edit
IN SHIRT-SLEEVES, the way I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 20 of 37 in Millennium/Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by Riddle-Master, and followed by Mistress of Mistresses.
This is book 61 of 113 in Book Smart Reading List. (community list)
Preceded by Mr. Mani (Harvest in Translation), and followed by A Passage to India.
This is book 99 of 100 in Top 100 Mysteries of All Time (Mystery Writers of America, 1995). (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Steam Pig, and followed by Rosemary's Baby.
This is book 162 of 214 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Stand, and followed by The Adventures of Augie March.
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
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Page Count: 399
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Page Count: 399
Awards edit
- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (1994: Foreign-language Novel)
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- Dewey: 813.54
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