Time and Again (Simak novel)

Time and Again (sometimes written as Time & Again) is a 1951 novel by science fiction author Clifford D. Simak. An alternate paperback title was First He Died, and it was also serialized (with a different ending) as Time Quarry.[1]

The plot involved a long-lost spaceman returning to Earth from a distant planet where the "souls" of humans may live. His fuddled observations spark a religious schism and war, and "future folk insist [he] should be killed on sight as he will otherwise write a book that, because it tells a truth inconvenient to religious bigots, will cause the death of millions".[2] Evolutionary transcendence is a theme, as it was for a number of other Simak novels.[3] The novel is one of Simak's more popular works.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Galaxy's Five Star Shelf," Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1951, p.101.
  2. ↑ Keith Brooke, Strange Divisions and Alien Territories: The Sub-Genres of Science Fiction (2012), p. 70.
  3. ↑ Brian M. Stableford, Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia (2006), p. 482.
  4. ↑ Philip A. Greasley, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1: The Authors (2001), p. 467.


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