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TIME ON MY HANDS (Paperback)

by Peter Delacorte (Author)
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Here's a genre you don't run into every day--a political time-travel novel. If you enjoyed A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, or Back to the Future you'll definitely want to give this a tumble. A brilliant physicist has discovered a time machine from the 22d century languishing in an obscure Paris technical museum, but is too old to try it out himself. Fortunately he meets up with a bored travel writer (our hero) who is up for the mission. The physicist, a political liberal, has only one request of him: when you go back in time, divert B-movie actor Ronald Reagan from becoming president. The writer makes the trip (several times), meets Reagan (several times), but ... well, let's just say changing the entire course of modern American politics isn't easy. And there's the additional problem of falling in love with a luscious blonde who's been dead since 1938. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Delacorte's third novel (following Games of Chance, LJ 11/15/80) features clever, amiable Gabriel Prince, who like Jack Finney's protagonist in Time and Again is a firm believer in his own personal destiny. Travel writer Prince meets eccentric Jasper Hudnut, a disaffected ex-physics professor with an H.G. Wellsian time machine and a single-minded obsession to change history's course by preventing Ronald Reagan from becoming president. Soon, Prince is undertaking the ultimate journey?back to 1938 Hollywood?to steer young actor Dutch Reagan into a different career path. Complicating his plan are the beautiful young starlet with whom he falls in love; a suspicious, malevolent screenwriter; and two murderous Frenchmen from the 22nd century intent on recovering their stolen property: a time machine that is beginning to malfunction dangerously. The downbeat ending may disappoint some readers, but this is a memorable, extraordinarily intelligent piece of fiction writing with a strong sense of time(s) and place(s).?Jo Manning, Miami Beach, Fla.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very competent time-travel story, Oct 5 2003
By James J. Horning "Jim H." (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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There's a whole sub-genre of science fiction dealing with time travel, often offering ingenious approaches to its paradoxes or deriving humorous consequences from them, and often of interest only to hard-core SF fans.

By contrast, this is a book that I can recommend to those who normally avoid SF, like my wife, as well as to SF fans. The premise is interesting: A man travels back from 1994 in an attempt to deflect Ronald Reagan from the path that led him to become President. The characters are well-drawn--both the real ones from Warner Brothers in the 1930s and the fictional ones--and as a reader I was drawn in to their stories. The storyline is compelling, and kept me up much of the night to see what would happen next.

I won't spoil the result for you, but I should note that if you think that Ronald Reagan was the best thing that ever happened to the United States, you probably won't enjoy the book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A likeable time travel novel, Sep 9 2003
By Debra Hamel (TwitterLit.com) - See all my reviews
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Travel writer Gabriel Prince, the protagonist of Peter Delacorte's Time on My Hands, spends a dreary afternoon in 1994 in Paris's Musée des Techniques. He encounters there the eccentric, 72-year-old Jasper Hudnut, formerly an academic physicist, who is intrigued by a jet-ski-looking machine he finds stashed in the museum's basement. Though Prince is a trifle unnerved by the occasional, near maniacal intensity of Hudnut's gaze, he accompanies his new acquaintance to a nearby café, where the conversation turns quickly to politics--specifically to Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s. Hudnut would prefer a world in which Reagan had never been elected. But unlike your average embittered liberal, content to complain about Reagan's ascendancy, Hudnut means to prevent it.

So begins Delacorte's delightful time travel novel, which is at least as likeable as Jack Finney's classic Time and Again--even for readers who do not share Hudnut's political views. Told in the first person, the book is Prince's account of his journey, at Hudnut's urging, to 1938 Hollywood, where the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Errol Flynn, not to mention B movie star "Dutch" Reagan, can regularly be spotted in the Warner Brothers commissary. But changing history is not as
easy as it looks. Sometimes you don't get it right on the first try. Delacorte's plot becomes deliciously complicated as Prince attempts repeatedly to manipulate events to his satisfaction. The ending of Time on My Hands will leave you pondering the book's twists, and hoping that Delacorte means it when he says he'd like to write a sequel.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Too Much Fluff, Aug 9 2003
By Big Mike From LA "Just One Opinion" (Encino, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This was a 300-page novel that was 400 pages long. I mean, there was so much fluff that I often found myself skipping pages because, paragraph after paragraph, nothing was happening. With a good bit of editing, this could have been a very good read. Sorry to have such a minority opinion, but that's the way I see it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars time travel lover
I enjoyed the basic story in this book however Mr. Delacorte needs to get over his Reagan hatred or at least subdue it a smidge! Read more
Published on Jun 15 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Adventure
This was a total blast. Except for a very short meandering spot midway through I smiled at our hero's adventures for the better part of a week. Read more
Published on Oct 23 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars What fun!
I had a wonderful time reading this book! I stumbled upon it from an Amazon recommendation and have since ordered one for my son to read also. Read more
Published on Aug 22 2002 by M. Brooks

3.0 out of 5 stars An okay time travel story
If you had access to a time machine, and you could go back to any period in the 20th century to preemptively clean up one of mankind's messes, who would you choose to visit... Read more
Published on Jun 10 2002 by Michael K. Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars I want more!
I enjoyed this book a lot. I want the author to do a sequel. It could involve totally different characters who come across the repaired machine, or the same character doing... Read more
Published on May 1 2002 by Erik

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read !
Peter Delacorte's novel Time On My Hands is the best read I've had in years! From the very first page, I was hooked. Read more
Published on April 5 2002 by Kristin Kardal

1.0 out of 5 stars Why?
Why would ANYONE want to prevent Ronald Reagan from becoming President? Is THAT the premise of a book?? Read more
Published on April 4 2002 by Grushenka

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and Wonderful...Where is the Sequel?
After reading Ken Grimwood's Replay, I developed an abiding interest in the subject of time travel. Left cold by Hollywood's most recent version, I returned easily to the realm... Read more
Published on Mar 26 2002 by Robert Wellen

4.0 out of 5 stars Time-tripping with history.
I found this book to be quite interesting. Though not quite up to the standard of other time travel novels, the book is an engaging read. Read more
Published on Nov 20 2001 by tvtv3

5.0 out of 5 stars Second Chances
Peter Delacorte's "Time on My Hands" measures up to the high standards for time travel novels previously set by the likes of Jack Finney and Allen Appel. Read more
Published on Oct 26 2001 by Sam Sattler

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