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American author Jack Finney announced his major thematic material early in his career, in the short story "I'm Scared": "Haven't you noticed," the narrator comments, "... on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present""...

Jack Finney has never shown in his writing the fascination with the future as a setting which is so often central to science fiction. Instead he develops a mystique of the past, its lost opportunities and its lost values. He shares with science-fiction w...

Time and again, films use time travel By PETER KOBEL New York Times News Service Sunday, January 20, 2002 When the forthcoming DreamWorks-Warner Brothers remake of "The Time Machine" hits screens in March, audiences may notice that the director, Simon...

THE BODY ARTIST By Don DeLillo Scribner. 124 pp. $22 This very short novel by an American master can be read in a single sitting. But you probably should allow time for several sittings (or, better yet, several long walks) to...

There is currently a move afoot in Congress to mandate that Internet service providers police the activity of their subscribers. They claim that this would greatly reduce the volume of illegal Internet activity, such as child pornography, copyright infringements, and terrorist communications. However, I believe...

on their threat to sue Larry Silverstein's insurers--because they haven't promised that they won't try to get away with paying less? Statement after the jump. -Matthew Schuerman The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey ...