Timeliner
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| Author | Charles Eric Maine |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 192 pp |
Timeliner is a 1955 science fiction novel by British writer Charles Eric Maine. It was first published in the UK by Hodder & Stoughton; a paperback version by Bantam Books appeared the following year.
The story was originally written as a radio play called The Einstein Highway and was broadcast on the Light Programme of the BBC on 21 February 1954.[1]
Timeliner is a time travel story. A scientist working with "dimensional quadrature" is flung forward in time, to a period where his consciousness ousts that of another man. When that man dies, the protagonist leaps forward again, and so on. In each case, the personality he replaces belongs to a person who is close to a woman who resembles his wife.
