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Praise for David Gerrold and The Man Who Folded Himself

“superb”

—THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON)

“David Gerrold proves that he can do all the things that made us love Heinlein’s storytelling—and often better.”

—ORSON SCOTT CARD

“This is all widely imaginative and mindbending . . . Gerrold is such a good writer that he keeps us reading through . . . shifts of time, space and character—right into pre-history . . . After reading this one, time-machine addicts will never quite be able to look at the gadget again as a simple plaything.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“a major talent”

—BOOKLIST

“lively, inventive and entertaining”

—MAGILL’S GUIDE TO SCIENCE

FICTION AND FANTASY LITERATURE

“This would be good science fiction by any standards; in the present company it is outstanding. A nineteen-year-old student is bequeathed a belt which enables him to travel in time, which is hardly a new idea. What makes this book different is that it relentlessly follows through the implications of time travel, each one of which would normally satisfy an SF author as the germ for an entire novel.

“As the narrator jumps ahead of himself, so he keeps having to go back to erase awkward details of his alternative lives. From early on in the story he has to learn, literally, to live with himself—sometimes there are as many as half-a-dozen versions of himself at different ages in the same room . . . the whole thing has an uncanny allegorical force and underneath the diverting brilliance there begins to emerge, gratuitously, a genuine philosophic melancholy . . . Altogether most impressive.”

—TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“a first-rate writer”

—LIBRARY JOURNAL

“the inspiration behind The Man Who Folded Himself is Heinlein . . . [Gerrold demonstrates] skill in maintaining the verisimilitude of time travel through plausible and at times inspired inventive touchstones”

—DONALD L. LAWLER,

Science Fiction Writers