Paul Adams

About the Book

A time travel story like no other - no technology, only the  inexplicable will of God, as the hero divines what happens.  God starts by creating two men, Henry Williams in 1778 and  Paul Adams in 1923, who physically might be identical twins.  A terrific storm in 1808 and a concussion while hiking in  1955 place Henry in limbo in time, and Paul in Henry's place  in 1808.  Paul must "become" Henry, lest he be declared  insane were he to tell the truth.  He manages, after  digesting the enormity of his situation.  He adapts, falls in  love, marries, impregnates his wife.  Then he is jumped back  to 1955, and Henry reappears, a victim of time-lapse amnesia.  Henry, a lout, takes up the marriage he can't recall  beginning, induces a miscarriage with his clumsiness, and  follows later with his own impregnation.  Everything is  righted in the end, with one more storm and one more time  jump.

About the Author

Gilbert S. Bahn is a retired engineer and current free-lance historical researcher with a storyteller’s imagination. Characters form, incidents occur, lifelines develop, and then a story gets committed to paper. His first novel was begun over forty years ago and went on the shelf while he pursued his career in research and development, turning out over 30 technical papers, four books, and an international technical journal which he founded and edited for five years. During that period, as a Boy Scout leader, he also conceived Stories from a Hundred Campfires, a work still in progress. Upon retirement he conducted an exhaustive study of conservative Democratic Senators targeted by FDR for defeat in the 1938 primary elections. Recently he has concentrated on historical demography. Writing fiction is his form of relaxation.