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He was given the name John Finney. The Woodrow Wilson Dime (30 January 1960 Saturday Evening Post as "The Other Wife"; vt "The Coin Collector" in I Love Galesburg in the Springtime, coll 1963; much exp 1968) is a Parallel-Worlds novel. To entirely different effect from that accomplished by a late twentieth-century author like W G Sebald (1944-2001), whose novels are visually similar to Finney's, the text is accompanied – indeed built around – a clever selection of period photographs.
Many are evocative tales of escape from an ugly present into a tranquil past, or into a Parallel World, or wistful variants of the theme when the escape fails; the potency of his most famous single tale, "The Third Level" (7 October 1950 Collier's Weekly) – with a third level of platforms (where it remains 1894) below Grand Central Station, itself an extraordinarily evocative real-life Portal to the heart of a fantasticated real New York – remains undiminished.
After living in New York City and working for an advertising agency there, he moved with his family to Marin County, California in the early 1950s. A year later he published The Body Snatchers (later reissued as Invasion of the Body Snatchers), a chilling tale of aliens who emerge from pods in the guise of humans whom they have taken over.
The novel, about an advertising artist who travels back to the New York of the 1880s, quickly became a cult favorite, beloved especially by New Yorkers for its rich, painstakingly researched descriptions of life in the city more than a century ago.
Mr. Instead of using a physical machine, the participants steep themselves in the history and culture of a particular time and place, then travel there through hypnosis or self-hypnosis.
The worlds thus made available are, perhaps, all the more engrossing. This year Mr. Finney published a sequel to the novel, From Time to Time.
Mr. In 1987 he received the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement. Finney, whose original name was Walter Braden Finney, was born in Milwaukee and attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
Its protagonist, Simon Morley, is working in advertising in New York City when he is recruited for a secret government project trying to achieve time travel. Finney specialized in thrillers and works of science fiction. Two of his novels, The Body Snatchers and Good Neighbor Sam became the basis of popular films, but it was Time and Again (1970) that won him a devoted following.
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Jack Finney
Born
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The United StatesOctober 02, 1911
Died
November 14, 1995
Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers
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Although he is as well known for sf as for anything else, he did not specialize in the field, adapting his highly professional skills to mysteries and general fiction as well. He also wrote Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories (1983) about sensational events of the 19th century.
Marion's Wall (1973) movingly displaces the ghost of a 1926 film star into present-day Hollywood (see California). Finney specialized in thrillers and works of science fiction. His best-known work is The Body Snatchers (10-24 December 1954 Collier's Weekly; 1955; vt Invasion of the Body Snatchers1973; rev 1978), twice filmed as Invasion of the Body Snatchers: in 1956 by Don Siegel and in 1978 by Philip Kaufman; and later as TheInvasion (2007) by Oliver Hirschbiegel.