I love time travel. We’ve all experienced time travel whenever
we’ve opened a book and been transported to another place and time. When you
slap the book closed, it returns you to where you started. Well, sorta. You may
lose a few hours, but nothing's free.
All books do this, but I particularly like the time travel genre.
Two of my favorite time travel books are A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Lightening. In 1889, Mark Twain sent his
character Hank Morgan back in time to the reign of King Arthur in the sixth
century. Like all of Twain’s work, life lessons are delivered with humor and
skillful storytelling. Another great time travel novel is Lightening by Dean
Koontz. Written in 1988, Lightening takes a unique perspective that cannot be
described without a spoiler. Despite being over thirty years old, the novel has traveled to the present wholly intact.
Up until recently, I didn’t believe time travel was real. Then my nephew showed me his time travel machine. After testing it, I assure you that it works perfectly. Instead of flashing lights, electric pulses, or whirling brass spindles, he made his machine with duct tape, a kitchen timer, and a bathroom scale. He duct-taped the kitchen timer to the bathroom scale. That’s it. When you’re ready to travel, you set the timer to where you want to go and then climb aboard. When you hear the timer’s ding, you’ve arrived.
Pretty nifty, huh?