The Man From Time, Frank Belknap Long
The Man From Time, Frank Belknap Long
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The Man From Time

Author: Frank Belknap Long

Narrator: Scott Miller

Unabridged: 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scott Miller

Published: 03/19/2023


Synopsis

The Man From Time by Frank Belknap Long - The method by which one man might be pinpointed in the vastness of all Eternity was the problem tackled by the versatile Frank Belknap Long in this story. And as all minds of great perceptiveness know, it would be a simple, human quality he'd find most effective even in solving Time-Space.Daring Moonson, he was called. It was a proud name, a brave name. But what good was a name that rang out like a summons to battle if the man who bore it could not repeat it aloud without fear?Moonson had tried telling himself that a man could conquer fear if he could but once summon the courage to laugh at all the sins that ever were, and do as he damned well pleased. An ancient phrase that—damned well. It went clear back to the Elizabethan Age, and Moonson had tried picturing himself as an Elizabethan man with a ruffle at his throat and a rapier in his clasp, brawling lustily in a tavern.In the Elizabethan Age men had thrown caution to the winds and lived with their whole bodies, not just with their minds alone. Perhaps that was why, even in the year 3689, defiant names still cropped up. Names like Independence Forest and Man, Live Forever!It was not easy for a man to live up to a name like Man, Live Forever! But Moonson was ready to believe that it could be done. There was something in human nature which made a man abandon caution and try to live up to the claims made for him by his parents at birth.It must be bad, Moonson thought. It must be bad if I can't control the trembling of my hands, the pounding of the blood at my temples. I am like a child shut up alone in the dark, hearing rats scurrying in a closet thick with cobwebs and the tapping of a blind man's cane on a deserted street at midnight.

About Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and nonfiction. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 1977.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Phil on August 19, 2024

A telepathic time traveler develops a fear of time itself and panics, abandoning his time machine and stranding himself in 1930s Los Angeles. Speaking no English, the man wanders in silence from place to place, allaying the fears of others through his mere presence, including one F. Scott Fitzgerald......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on January 27, 2020

This book had such great potential..but the plot seemed to drag, there wasn't much action in it or point to it.......more

Goodreads review by Adam on January 03, 2016

Daring Moonson is a time traveller. He has been all across time and space, but he fears he shall never live up to his name. Disheartened and bitter, he steps from his machine while it is in midflight, depositing himself at a random point in history. Sure in the knowledge that he will never be found,......more