![]() ![]() Mingling fictional characters with real ones, Palma weaves a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting, a story full of love and adventure that also pays homage to the roots of science fiction while transporting its readers to a fascinating Victorian London for their own taste of time travel. Palma raises such questions in The Map of Time. But, what happens if we change history? F lix J. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and thereby save the lives of an aristocrat in love with a murdered prostitute from the past of a woman bent on fleeing the strictures of Victorian society and of his very own wife, who may have become a pawn in a 4th dimensional plot to murder the authors of Dracula, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, in order to alter their identities and steal their fictional creations. ![]() THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. The Map of Time, his first book published in the United States, was an instant New York Timesbestseller and received the prestigious 2008 Ateneo de Sevila XL Prize. ![]()
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