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Time travel is also a frequent theme in science fiction. H.G. Wells, in The Time Machine, inspired other writers to explore the worlds of the past and, in particular, the future. Following Wells's lead in When The Sleeper Wakes, Canadian writers often sought ways to put their protagonists to sleep for centuries--so they could awaken in a world very different from their own.
In Laurence Manning's The Man Who Awoke, a wealthy banker discovers a way of sleeping for 5000 years at a time. Terence M. Green's Children of the Rainbow, juxtaposes events like the mutiny on The Bounty and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
In Robert Charles Wilson's A Bridge of Years the hero seeks refuge from his chaotic and depressing life by going through a time portal to a simpler, more sedate life in the early 1960s.
Children of the Rainbow
Green, Terence M.
Toronto: McCelland & Stewart, 1992.
Time travel takes an interesting twist when an Irishman imprisoned in the British penal colony of Norfolk Island in the nineteenth century and a direct descendant of a Bounty mutineer from the twenty-first century switch places.
The Man Who Awoke
Manning, Laurence.
Toronto: Ballantine Books, 1975.
Norman Winters slept soundly for 5000 years at a time. Each time he awoke, the world around him had changed to a surprising degree.
Chronoreg
Sernine, Daniel
Montréal: Éditions Québec/Amérique, 1992.
A counter-espionage officer must neutralize the leader of a guerilla movement and his psychopathic lieutenant by using various drugs, including Chronoreg, which allows the user to return to the past to try to change what has already happened.
Chronoreg. Daniel Sernine. Montréal: Éditions Québec/Amérique, 1992.
Le Ressuscité de l'Atlantide
Trudel, Jean-Louis
[S.l.]: Éditions Fleuve Noir, 1994.
He was a "thaw job". One of those zombies without a memory that had come out of their cryogenic chambers in the middle of the twenty-third century. He would become a celebrity in a world that was scarcely recognizable, one without war, famine or unemployment, that had begun interplanetary colonization. But who was he really? Por Matos Lingon, biologist and last survivor of Atlantis, or Jon Ricard, twentieth-century mercenary?
Courtesy of Éditions Fleuve noir.
Un Trésor sur Serendib
Trudel, Jean-Louis
Montréal: Médiaspaul, 1994.
Serendib is a new colony of Earth humans. Samuel has made the long trip to get there, but now he spends all his time in a hotel room or at the consulate. He meets Alain, a kid with a mysterious past and a disturbing story to tell. To help him, Samuel pulls himself out of this rut ... and regrets it immediately.
Un Trésor sur Serendib. Jean-Louis Trudel.
Cover illustration: Charles Vinh. Montréal: MÉDIASPAUL, 1994.
The Time Machine: An Invention
Wells, H.G.
New York: Random House, 1931.
This seminal work on time travel describes a depressing journey into another dimension in which the inventor of a time machine travels through time to witness the future stages of evolutionary degeneration.
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