{"product_id":"timeliner-charles-eric-maine-1955-bce-rinehart-company-inc-hardback","title":"Timeliner - Charles Eric Maine - 1955 BCE Rinehart \u0026 Company, Inc. Hardback - Lawrence S. Kamp Cover","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:\u003cbr\u003e• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover\u003cbr\u003e• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name\/notes inside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover art: \u003c\/strong\u003eLawrence S. Kamp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlurb\u003c\/strong\u003e: “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTIMELINER - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Eric Maine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll the laboratory animals used to test the dimensional quadrature device had perished. But Dr. Hugh Macklin was determined to run a low-power test with himself as sub-ject, unaware that one of his associates — and his own wife — had arranged to kill him during the ex-periment. Seconds after the switch had \"accidentally\" been thrown to full power, Macklin found himself eighty years in the future with a new body and name —on the moon!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt wasn't until he arrived at a point many thousands of years in the future—after several hair-rais-ing adventures-that Macklin encountered a civilization advanced enough to tell him what he was, what had happened. He had become one of the ten or so Time-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eliners of the universe, a \"psycho-temporal parasite,\" whom death \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecould not destroy but only send farther into a future to take over someone else's identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn all of Macklin's adventures over millennia, there was the \"fatal affinity\" for the woman who most resembled his wife, Lydia. Ulti-mately, time being a curve and not a straight progression, he finds himself in the most fantastic possible position, listening to the story of his own murder!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Eric Maine is an English author who has published a previous novel of science fiction in England. He is also a successful writer of television plays, and did the screenplay, \"Spaceways,\" the successful science-fiction.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rinehart \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111413354738,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/7685\/4977\/files\/DA783A57-98D4-48BB-8D7B-827935F9343F.jpg?v=1789737385","url":"https:\/\/postmarkedfromthestars.com\/products\/timeliner-charles-eric-maine-1955-bce-rinehart-company-inc-hardback","provider":"Postmarked from the Stars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}