Speaking of '90s cynicism. I just had this thought about time travel fiction I read during that decade. @arthur_affect
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Many time travel novels from that decade seemed to take the tack that the modern world was terrible, and escape to the past was preferable.
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For example, in this book I just reviewed, Reflections in the Nile, there was a line about how the heroine wanted to escape the time of "malls, McDonalds and machine guns" to escape to the distant past of the Bronze Age.https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/f-reviews/review-reflections-in-the-nile-by-j-suzanne-frank/ …
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Replying to @suburbanbeatnik
I mean, it's not unique to that time period, there's the 1980 movie Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve that's basically a reverse Kate and Leopold (a man becomes obsessed with traveling to the past because he's in love with a woman in a photo)
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Replying to @suburbanbeatnik
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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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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