The Year of the Quiet Sun (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Wilson Tucker
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—time travel
- Time of Work: 1978
- Setting: Joliet, Illinois
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Race, Midwest, Time travel, Vietnam War, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Illinois
- Locales: Illinois
The Plot
Brian Chaney is a demographer who has upset religious fundamentalists with a study of newly translated scrolls showing the Book of Revelations to be stories, not literal truths. On a beach to which he has gone to escape his notoriety, he is informed by the attractive but humorless Kathryn van Hise that the government has purchased his contract with his private employer. To his consternation, he finds himself having to follow her to an Illinois research station and its Time Displacement Vehicle, an experimental time machine.
Chaney joins irrepressible Navy...
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