Project Pendulum - Hardcover

Silverberg, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517070839 ISBN 13: 9780517070833

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

Identical twins Sean and Eric have been chosen for a daring experiment. One of them will travel into the distant past. The other into the distant future. But each swing of the time pendulum means they will be further and further apart Will the experiment work? And if it does, will the twins ever meet again?

About this title

From School Library Journal

Grade 6-10 FDR's personality shines through in Devaney's biography. Roosevelt is portrayed as an optimistic man who welcomed each challenge, whether personal or political. While Devaney is obviously an admirer of FDR, he includes criticisms leveled at Roosevelt and does not gloss over the Lucy Rutherfurd affair. Franklin and Eleanor's relationship is displayed, warts and all. Devaney includes sufficient historical and political background to discuss the New Deal effectively without getting bogged down in detail. His is not an exposition on 20th-Century American history, but a vivid portrait of the man who shaped it. The book is rich with black-and-white photographs and is written in a readable style which adapts it to general use. Devaney's volume joins Jeffrey H. Hacker's Franklin D. Roosevelt (Watts, 1983) and Fred L. Israel's Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Chelsea House, 1985) as generally excellent overviews of FDR's life and career. Joseph Alsop's FDR, 1882-1945: a Centenary Remembrance (Viking, 1982) offers more depth as both a history and a personal memoir by a Roosevelt cousin. For those needing more information on the New Deal era itself, Don Lawson's FDR's New Deal (Crowell, 1979) deals effectively with the most famous period of FDR's life. Joyce Adams Burner, formerly at Spring Hill Middle School, Kans.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly

This title in the Millennium series of illustrated SF is a striking time-travel story by much-honored Silverberg. Twins Eric and Sean Gabrielson, a paleontologist and a physicist, are chosen as the first human subjects of a secret Cal Tech experiment in 2016 that will transport them into the past and the future. As if on a pendulum, they are automatically shunted back and forth, at increasing distancesa few minutes, hours, years, centuries. . . . Their brief stays in other times produce vivid, dreamlike vignettes: encounters with their younger selves, with robots, Neanderthals, aliens and dinosaurs, each era with its own smell and taste. This imaginative story, suggesting much more than is stated in its brief length, is a deft evocation of Silverberg's theme of dislocation. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517070839
• ISBN 13: 9780517070833
• Binding: Hardcover