by Felix J. Palma
This is a story written by a Spanish author which has been translated into English. It starts with the story of a spoiled rich English man who is distraught because the woman he is passionately in love with, a prostitute, has been murdered by Jack the Ripper.
The young man goes to the scene of the crime, on the eighth anniversary of her death, planning to commit suicide. However, his cousin, who has been his partner in depravity arrives in time to save him, convincing hiim that he has a way that the young man can go back in time to kill Jack the Ripper before he can kill the girl (courtesy of H.G. Wells). The young man travels through time and saves her (or does he?).
Around the time that this is happening an man in London is offering people the opportunity to travel to the year 2000 to see a final battle between automatons and humans that will deide the fate of humanity.
HG Wells knows that the time travel show is a fraud but he doesn't reveal the fraud.
As the story proceeds there are several story lines in which people think they are interacting with people from another time and discussion about the implications of what would happen if people could go back and change the past.
It was an interesting story but at times I had to reread parts to keep straight what was going on.
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