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The Map of Time: A Novel
Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical triple play of intertwined plots, in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence. What happens to the present if we rewrite the past? Félix J. Palma explores this provocative question, weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting—a story full of love and adventure that transports readers from a haunting setting in Victorian London to a magical reality where centuries collide and a writer’s mind seems to pull all the strings.
656 pages, Paperback
Published June 5, 2012
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November 26, 2025
"We all begun reading for one reason or another, don't you think."
"People see what they want to see."
"We can all be deceived at the fraud is convincing enough."
"True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the clip of self-knowledge."
"They were dangerous stories, stories that resisted being inhabited, and stories that pulled you apart while you were writing them.'
"Sometimes the best way to find out what you want is to choose what you did not want."
"All I could think of as I ran hand in hand with Alice through the mounting destruction was how little we valued human life in the end."
"Was there an end to time, or did it carry on forever? If it did end, then it had to happen at the exact moment when man became extinct and no other species were left on the planet, for what was time if there was no one to measure it, if there was nothing to experience it's passing, time can only be seen in the falling leaves, a wound that healed, a woodworms tunneling, rust that spread, and hearts that grew rarely. without anyone to discern it, time was nothing, nothing at all."
"Jack the ripper would have disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving behind in the unsolved mystery of his identity, over which as much ink would be spilled as a blood that flowed under his knife."
"People see what they want to see."
"We can all be deceived at the fraud is convincing enough."
"True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the clip of self-knowledge."
"They were dangerous stories, stories that resisted being inhabited, and stories that pulled you apart while you were writing them.'
"Sometimes the best way to find out what you want is to choose what you did not want."
"All I could think of as I ran hand in hand with Alice through the mounting destruction was how little we valued human life in the end."
"Was there an end to time, or did it carry on forever? If it did end, then it had to happen at the exact moment when man became extinct and no other species were left on the planet, for what was time if there was no one to measure it, if there was nothing to experience it's passing, time can only be seen in the falling leaves, a wound that healed, a woodworms tunneling, rust that spread, and hearts that grew rarely. without anyone to discern it, time was nothing, nothing at all."
"Jack the ripper would have disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving behind in the unsolved mystery of his identity, over which as much ink would be spilled as a blood that flowed under his knife."
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