Hi everyone,
I’ve been trying to remember the title of a science fiction book for years. The information below will, I hope, prompt someone’s memory!
I’ve been trying to remember the title of a science fiction book for years. The information below will, I hope, prompt someone’s memory!
- Novel, hardcover, bound in black, English language. The copy I had didn’t have a dust jacket unfortunately.
- I think the novel would have been targeted at adults/young adults
- Year of publication unknown but I read it in the late 60s or early 70s
- The plot was based around the mind exchange of two men, based in different times (one from the far future). The man from the future reached out to the present day man in his mind (ESP I guess) and suggested they temporarily exchange minds. There was a thread throughout of the man from the present falling in love with, I think, the future man’s “morganatic” wife. I remember the word “morganatic” very specifically because I didn’t know what it meant as a kid. The struggle of the man from the present was whether or not to betray future man and stay in his body permanently and pursue love. I remember that he made the decision to lose love and return to his own body.
- I’m pretty sure the whole novel concentrated on just these two characters and maybe the morganatic wife but I’m not certain.
- 99% sure it wasn’t authored by an Asimov or similar
