Time after Time (1979 novel)
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Time after Time is a 1979 science fiction novel by Karl Alexander. Its plot speculates what might have happened if H. G. Wells had built a real time machine to travel to the 1970s in search of Jack the Ripper.
The novel was adapted to film the same year, under the same title, by Alexander's friend Nicholas Meyer who had optioned the story after reading the early pages. Meyer wrote his screenplay as Alexander finished the novel and the two freely shared ideas for their respective iterations. The film stars Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells, David Warner as Jack the Ripper, and Mary Steenbergen as Amy Robbins - a 20th century bank teller with whom Wells becomes involved and whom the Ripper eventually targets as a victim.
[edit] Editions
- Delacorte Press, April 1979, ISBN 0-440-08900-X
- Dell, September 1979, ISBN 0-440-18804-0 (paperback)
A musical version of the novel has Book & Lyrics by Stephen Cole and Music by Jeffrey Saver. In Nov. 2007 it had it's first reading as part of the American Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern University in Illinois. There is also a CD with several of the songs for sale.
