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There Is a Wolf in My Time Machine Study Guide

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by Larry Niven
About 12 pages (3,697 words)
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Themes and Characters

Hanville Svetz, the main character, is a time traveler. His job is to go back in time before the Atomic era and retrieve extinct animals for display in his own time. Like most people of his time, Svetz is xenophobic, which makes his job especially tough: "Svetz shuddered. Of all the things he hated about his profession, this was the worst; the ride home, staring up at a strange and dangerous extinct animal." In this case, he has captured a wolf. He is not an imposing figure, only a "pale, slender young man topped with thin blond hair." He seems like an ordinary man working at an extraordinary job, and he tends to deal with the problems that arise in his work much as most people would.

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There Is a Wolf in My Time Machine from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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