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I am looking for a book that I read 10-15 years ago (I don’t know when it was published). It was a paperback fiction book having to do with a boy learning about his unwilling participation in Nazi genetic experiments. I seem to remember some aspect of ESP and/or twins, and possibly time travel of some kind.

Perhaps the novel was _Making History_ by Stephen Fry? It was published eleven years previous and many of the story elements mentioned correspond with those found within the novel. If not, or even if so, I suggest you read Sarban’s _The Sound Of His Horn_ which is included in the recently published _The Sarban Omnibus_. Potent reading that.

Update: Failing _Making History_, I have included some alternate history links below. My other suggestions would be one of James Rollins’ Sigma Force novels — perhaps _Black Order_, Chrisopher Priest’s _The Separation_, Ira Levin’s _The Boys From Brazil_, or Ken Follett’s _The Third Twin_.

FROM 35200 AD Photo Mugs MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA (Francis Flagg) A man from 35,000 years hence travels back in time and is delighted to encounter a live prehistoric man of 1927. ….

Time Rider [VHS] $9.99 As time-travel adventures go, this 1983 outing is an enjoyable one: a loosey-goosey shaggy-dog story about an ’80s kind of guy who gets tossed back to the ’70s–the 1870s, that is. Fred Ward plays the hero, a motocross racer who, along with his motorcycle, accidentally rides into the middle of a science experiment and is transported to the Old West. There, he runs into a cast of bad guys that incl…

Serenity (Widescreen edition) $3.48 Serenity offers perfect proof that Firefly deserved a better fate than premature TV cancellation. Joss Whedon’s acclaimed sci-fi Western hybrid series was ideally suited (in Browncoats, of course) for a big-screen conversion, and this action-packed adventure allows Whedon to fill in the Firefly backstory, especially the history and mystery of the spaceship Serenity’s volatile and traumatized stowa…

Idiocracy $7.12 Given that Office Space is a bona fide cult classic, it comes as some surprise that Mike Judge’s follow-up wasn’t more heavily promoted. Granted, this live-action comedy is a darker, more pointed proposition, but it’s unfortunate that few theater patrons got the opportunity to, well, judge for themselves. In Idiocracy, the King of the Hill creator visualizes what would happen if Devo’s proposition…

Deja Vu $1.89 Investigating the horrific terrorist bombing of a New Orleans river ferry, an ATF agent (Denzel Washington) receives high-tech assistance from a government surveillance system allowing him to plug himself into the past–perhaps literally–to track both the suspect (James Caviezel) and a victim (Paula Patton) whose death he comes to believe he may be able to prevent. Crackerjack thriller also stars…

Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time $14.99 Travel 3,700 years in the past and embark on an urgent mission to ensure the Earth’s survival. Travel to lost mythical civilizations and uncover the secret of the Earth’s past. As Agent Gage Blackwood, you’ll travel through time, assume multiple identities, interact with characters from ancient civilizations, and weave your way through an intricate web of puzzles. This epic, four-CD-ROM story line…

Command and Conquer the First Decade $12.19 Format: BoxAge: 13+Platform: Windows Relive a Decade of Real-time Strategy History Product Information This ultimate Command & Conquer collection features 12 Command & Conquer games on a single DVD.  The fate of the world rests in your hands as you orchestrate the elite armies of GDI, NOD, Allied and Soviet forces, plus superpowers like China, the US and the resourceful GLA.  RTS’s most unique …

Lightbringer $0.85 Prepare yourself for an exhilarating 3-D graphic adventure. Your mission is to travel to the Cydonia region of Mars to survey the planet for the prospect of human colonization. But your mission takes an unexpected turn….

Portal $11.68 Come Find Me Two Years Ago… Six words that propelled ice hockey playing tomboy, Arizona, into an alternate dimension. She suddenly found herself in the past. In one moment she went from being an ice hockey playing teenager in New Jersey to a glamorous cheerleader in California. She found herself transported from a happy life with her dad, Dillard, to a new, strange one living with her mother who…

Voice of the Lost: Medair Part 2 $6.79 Medair an Rynstar wants only to leave. Five hundred years after the Empire she served fell to the Ibisian invaders, Medair has betrayed her Emperor’s memory by helping the descendants of the invaders. She knows she will be reviled, that to thousands she is hero-become-villain. Her one goal is to return to the hidden cave where she slept out of time, and hope that she wakes in a world where the…

science fiction and Philosophy $93.95 A timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments. Raises questions and examines timely themes concerning the nature of the mind, time travel, artificial intelligence, neural enhancement, free will, the nature of persons, transhumanism, virtual reality, and neuroethics Draws on a broad range of books, films and television series, including The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Frankenstein, Brave New World, The Time Machine, and Back to the Future Considers the classic philosophical puzzles that appeal to the general reader, while also exploring new topics of interest to the more seasoned academic

The Art of Fiction $12.99 In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as atlas shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.

mark twain, Travel Books, and Tourism $23.96 This illuminating study reevaluates an often overlooked aspect of Mark Twain’s writing-his travel narratives-and demonstrates their centrality to his identity and thinking. Travel books, Jeffrey Melton asserts in this study, are vital to Mark Twain’s identity as a writer and to his cultural influence, and not just, as many critics have argued, preliminary sketches or failed attempts at fiction. Furthermore, the identity that Twain establishes for himself in these books as the arch “tourist” provides the most compelling perspective from which to view his entire body of work. Melton begins by outlining the conventions of travel writing in the 19th century and proceeds to document Twain’s subversion of those conventions to his own ends: a reinvention of the genre. The remainder of the study examines Twain’s travel narratives individually, charting a progression from the Old World in The Innocents Abroad and A Tramp Abroad, in which Twain confronts the limitations of the “tourist” experience of life and discovers the powers of imagination and self-delusion, to the New World in Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi, in which Twain seeks to reconcile his “outsider” identity with a search for home. The final section considers Twain’s last travel narrative, Following the Equator, as Twain searches for a complete escape from the “tourist” perspective and its imperialistic implications. In the process, Melton shows, Twain’s travelogues highlight the author’s philosophical and moral evolution as a writer from the worldviews of “innocence” to “experience.” Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism is the first full-length work to treat Twain’s travel narratives in depth and in specific context with his contemporary travel writers and with tourism. Academic libraries, students and scholars of American and southern literature, Mark Twain and travelogue enthusiasts-all will welcome this thoughtful look at the 19th century’s most popular and best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Alan Melton is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery.

The Fiction Class $11.99 A witty, honest, and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books, or has a difficult mother. And, let’s face it, that’s practically everybody . . . On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she’s a writer herself; she’s passionate about books; she’s even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel. On the other hand, she’s thirty-eight, single, and has been writing the same book for the last seven years. And she has been distracted recently: on the same day that Arabella teaches her class she also visits her mother in a nursing home outside the city. And every time they argue. Arabella wants the fighting to stop, but, as her mother puts it, “Just because we’re family, doesn’t mean we have to like each other.” When her class takes a surprising turn and her lessons start to spill over into her weekly visits, she suddenly finds she might be holding the key to her mother’s love and, dare she say it, her own inspiration. After all, as a lifelong lover of books, she knows the power of a good story.

Travel In Time $6 Travel In Time – Kate Havnevik