Speaking of '90s cynicism. I just had this thought about time travel fiction I read during that decade. @arthur_affect
It's based on a Richard Matheson novel (Bid Time Return, 1975) but Matheson was clearly imitating a more famous and influential novel from 1970, Time and Again Which is a straight up tract about the guy desperately wishing to abandon the 1970s for the 1890s
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I tried to read that book, Time and Again. I couldn't get into it. There was a LOT of fantasizing about Victorian womanhood in it.
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Lol yeah the love interest is such a virginal Purity Sue
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And this is despite the fact that Finney thoroughly researched the 1890s and writes in great depth about the crushing poverty of the times, the rigid gender and class roles, the casual ignorance Somehow that's still better than the "spiritually deadened" present
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