There's No Time Like the Present by Rainey, Paul B.
There's No Time Like the Present by Rainey, Paul B.

There's No Time Like the Present

If time travel existed, would you right societal wrongs or just watch future episodes of Doctor Who?...
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Author: Paul B. Rainey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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There's No Time Like the Present by Rainey, Paul B.

There's No Time Like the Present

$81.99 $42.77
There's No Time Like the Present by Rainey, Paul B.

There's No Time Like the Present

$81.99 $42.77
Author: Paul B. Rainey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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If time travel existed, would you right societal wrongs or just watch future episodes of Doctor Who?

Paul B. Rainey's There's No Time Like the Present continues to upend grand science fiction gestures with a deep desire to understand the emotional lives of the common man (nerd). It's a simple conceit: time travel is only possible between the invention of the necessary, functioning machinery and the day those machines are shut off. In that finite sliver of space-time, humanity schisms into those who defiantly refuse to look into the future, and those who reap the benefits of doing so.

After all, what would you do if you accidentally found out for certain that you would still be working the same dead end job at the age of 70? What would you do if you could read every future issue of your favorite comic? Or if you traveled back in time and couldn't afford to travel back? Would your life actually be that different? Can we admit that there might not be such a thing as free will? Is life just a series of denials of reality? Why does that one guy have horns?

There's No Time Like The Present proves the success of Why Don't You Love Me? was no fluke, and is yet another brilliant graphic novel by a modern master.

Author: Paul B. Rainey
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781770467569


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2025 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 03/24/2025

About the Author
Paul B. Rainey is a British cartoonist who has been making comics for decades. He won the Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize in 2020 with the strip Similar to But Not. In it, he recounts meeting Madonna in his local pub in 1985.
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