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I Will See You In Time
A cynical former government agent is recruited by a secret organization that uses special carousels to travel through time and he discovers the truth about his own past as well as finding an unexpected love. Written in the tradition of Jack Finney and Richard Matheson, the author is a former federal agent who has experienced time related synchronicity and other associated phenomena.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 5, 2011
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Walter Bosley
27 books55 followersAuthor of the Empire of the Wheel trilogy and other non-fiction works, as well as classic-style adventure fiction and esoteric pulp thrillers.
Founder of Lost Continent Library.
Founder of Lost Continent Library.
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March 25, 2015
In “I Will See You in Time,” Walter Bosley gives us a science fiction adventure story filled with concepts that are as mind-boggling as they are preposterous, backed by historical facts that are just too wild to have any basis in reality. On the other hand, there were a series of mysterious deaths in San Bernardino in 1915, malevolent occult societies did proliferate in the early part of the century, and ley lines do indeed exist with strange incidents occurring at their intersections. And, yes, San Francisco did have a really big earthquake. Admittedly, all of that may not mean anything more than Bosley is an expert researcher and a skilled storyteller. After all, is that not what a good writer does, stitch together fantastic ideas with realistic threads to create a sustained suspension of belief? Really, when you come down to it, the only “unreal” thing Bosley asks us to accept is that there is a super secret organization that uses carousels for traveling in time. If you’ve read Bosley’s nonfiction book “Latitude 33: Key to the Kingdom,” as I have, then he is not asking for a very big leap of faith. Still, despite all that, I am hardly ready to accept that Walter Bosley is anything more than a superb teller of tales.
It’s hard to capsulate the action in “I Will See You in Time” because it ropes together so many characters and events from across time and space, creating as it does myriad cross-connections between people, places and things that would seem to have no relation to each other. Because it is also a time travel story, not so much by way of HG Wells’ scientific philosophy as by Jack Finney’s romantic fantasy, his protagonists face the usual problems and paradoxes we have come to expect from the genre, all of which are deftly handled within the context of the story without too much disruption in the lives of the historical characters who play their parts to smaller or larger degrees. It is also a mystery, a puzzle with a few pieces of the puzzle tucked up someone’s sleeve, though we’re never really sure whose since people are not always what, or who, they seem to be. The reader is not alone in having to solve the mysteries or fathom the concepts presented, for the protagonist, from the moment he is inducted into this elite corps of carousel-riding time-traveling crime-fighting troubleshooters, must learn his job on the fly, picking up his knowledge as he goes. Fortunately for him, he has been at this game longer than he at first realizes.
Walter Bosley has written an excellent science fiction novel filled with action, romance, terror and more than a little whimsy. He has taken many disparate facts from California’s rich history and woven them into an almost seamless narrative. His protagonist is sympathetic and engaging, easily communicating his hopes and fears, joys and frustrations. From the very beginning of the novel it is easy to get caught up with the story and let yourself be swept along. It is a wild merry-go-round of a tale that might leave your head spinning.
It’s hard to capsulate the action in “I Will See You in Time” because it ropes together so many characters and events from across time and space, creating as it does myriad cross-connections between people, places and things that would seem to have no relation to each other. Because it is also a time travel story, not so much by way of HG Wells’ scientific philosophy as by Jack Finney’s romantic fantasy, his protagonists face the usual problems and paradoxes we have come to expect from the genre, all of which are deftly handled within the context of the story without too much disruption in the lives of the historical characters who play their parts to smaller or larger degrees. It is also a mystery, a puzzle with a few pieces of the puzzle tucked up someone’s sleeve, though we’re never really sure whose since people are not always what, or who, they seem to be. The reader is not alone in having to solve the mysteries or fathom the concepts presented, for the protagonist, from the moment he is inducted into this elite corps of carousel-riding time-traveling crime-fighting troubleshooters, must learn his job on the fly, picking up his knowledge as he goes. Fortunately for him, he has been at this game longer than he at first realizes.
Walter Bosley has written an excellent science fiction novel filled with action, romance, terror and more than a little whimsy. He has taken many disparate facts from California’s rich history and woven them into an almost seamless narrative. His protagonist is sympathetic and engaging, easily communicating his hopes and fears, joys and frustrations. From the very beginning of the novel it is easy to get caught up with the story and let yourself be swept along. It is a wild merry-go-round of a tale that might leave your head spinning.
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