A Stitch in Time (Back to the Future zine)
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| Title: | A Stitch in Time |
| Publisher: | Alvyren Press |
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| Author(s): | Mary Jean Holmes |
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| Date(s): | 1993 |
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| Fandom: | Back to the Future |
| External Links: | online pdf link |
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A Stitch in Time is a 78-page gen Back to the Future novel published in 1993 and written by Mary Jean Holmes.
Summaries
Summary from print flyer, and online:
In late summer of 1885, Clara Clayton left an increasingly unhappy life in New Jersey and headed west to California, eager to start a new life as the schoolteacher in one of the many growing frontier towns. On the day of her arrival in Hill Valley, her life was saved by one Emmett Brown, an unusual man with unusual interests and even more unusual origins. They became close, fell in love, and that November were engaged to be married. Clara thought then that she had successfully put behind her old life, that nothing could ruin the happiness which now lay before her and her fiance from the future. But she had failed to take into account the interference of one Prescott R. Osgood, star reporter for the Hill Valley Telegraph, chairman of the schoolboard, intellectual and social snob, and all around insufferable egomaniac. Unknown to Clara, he had set his matrimonial sights on her, and was determined to make her change her mind in his favor, no matter what efforts it took -- even if those efforts threatened Clara's own life..... [1]
Author's Preface
Quite possibly the strangest thing about this story is the fact that it's set in a genre dealing with time travel -- and time travel plays virtually no part in it! Since the time I first came up with the idea for "A Stitch in Time," it went through a number of permutations (most which were discarded because they did not suit the characters), but the fact that this simply wasn't a time travel story never changed, at least not in an active sense. Passively speaking, it plays a very vital role, since Doc wouldn't be in 1885 if it weren't for his little fourth dimensional accident, but actively speaking, it enters into this tale only very briefly toward the end. Judge Archibald Morris, who is mentioned in this story and will be mentioned again in the future as a part of Hill Valley history, is a nod to my friend and fellow fanfic writer, Jeff Morris, who provided me with considerable and invaluable information concerning trains and rail lines of the era. Though this info did not play a part in this story, it did in others, and helped considerably when I wanted to figure out just where Hill Valley would be in the Real World. I made these computations well before the fan club published its article on the subject, and was amused to find that we came to very nearly the same conclusion. For those who are fond of Marty McFly, I beg your pardon for his absence from this tale, and hope that the presence of his ancestor, Seamus, makes up for it. [2]