In The Blink Of An Eye by Yoav Blum is a story of time travel, which has always been a favorite of mine. Time travel just grabs my imagination. It was in the late 1950’s that I received a magazine, Boys Life, as the result of being a member of the Cub Scouts. They published a monthly serial of stories about time travel, and I could hardly wait for the next issue. It never mattered whether it was a book, a newspaper story, a short story, whatever, I always enjoyed thinking about the topic. It was several years ago that I read a fascinating time travel novel that had a psychoanalytic twist. I thought it was called “The Little Book,” but now I can’t find my review in the blog, and to make it worse, I can’t recall the author’s name.
This novel by Blum has a very complex plot. There are a close group of friends who have known each other since college, and they are all bright and talented. It was one of them, a brilliant physicist who built a time machine. The rules of the use of the machine were unique. One could only observe the past and not the future. In observing the past, the physicist insisted that one could not make any changes, like preventing Kennedy from being assassinated. He wrote that doing so would surely make time collapse on itself. He described that as a paradox which had to avoided. But, as the story continued, he began to actual travel in time, which was a most exciting thing for the world renown historian in the group. This was a murder mystery that by the book’s end, the murder of the builder of the time travel machine, and the mystery was not solved.
I did not enjoy this novel and do not recommend it to anyone that might happen upon it, but mabe you’ll find it more interesting that I did.
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