London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write the The time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells invention wasn't fiction? and what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit? Time after Time is a marvelous entertainment of shivery suspens and sly social comment . In moder-day San Francisco, the Ripper finds our violent age to his liking. Wells dislikes the brave new world of fast food and television, far from the utopia he envisioned. But he is cheered by the emancipation of women, praticulary on irresistable banker. For myster, romand and excitement, Time After Time is time well spent.