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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Lisa Marrity is really [[spoiler:Lieserl Einstein, the daughter of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić who disappeared from the historical record as an infant, making her descendants examples of this trope]].
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* YouCantFightFate: Oren Lepidopt's premonitions.
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''Three Days to Never'' is a 2006 fantasy novel by Creator/TimPowers.
The action takes place over three days in August 1987. Frank Marrity's grandmother dies in mysterious circumstances, and he discovers something strange and dangerous in her garden shed, something that is sought both by Mossad and by a centuries-old secret society. Something that just might, three days from now, bring about the end of the world.
!!This novel provides examples of:
* AncientConspiracy: The main villains are a sorcerous order with roots in the 13th century.
* BadassIsraeli: The Mossad team.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The MacGuffin is a truly unconventional [[TimeTravel time machine]] created by UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein as a result of his exploration into astral projection and the Sephirot, with Creator/CharlieChaplin lending a hand at some point.
* TheConstant: The method to steer the time machine to a particular point in time requires an object that was present there and underwent a significant change at the target moment.
* DemonicPossession: Lisa Marrity was haunted by a malevolent supernatural creature (referred to by the Jewish term "dybbuk") which transfers its attentions to Frank, and attempts to possess his daughter Daphne.
* DisappearedDad: Frank and his sister were raised by their grandmother after their father disappeared when they were very young. [[spoiler:It turns out their father didn't deliberately abandon them -- he was done in by the bad guys.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* {{Fingore}}: The first time Oren Lepidopt got one of his premonitions, he immediately tried to prove it wrong by going against what it predicted, and wound up minus a finger.
* FutureMeScaresMe: The plot is complicated by the arrival of a future version of one of the characters (from the distant future year of 2006), who is dangerously determined to prevent the course of events that produced him.
* GenderRestrictedAbility: Certain magical powers are restricted by gender; one of the characters is a sorcerer who, it turns out, was born female and went to extreme lengths to gain access to male magic.
* HistoricalFantasy: Does TheEighties count as "historical" yet?
* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: An emergency tracheotomy performed by a non-professional is a key plot event. It's not a neat Hollywood tracheotomy, and has serious repercussions.
* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: Creator/CharlieChaplin worked symbolic imagery into ''Film/CityLights'' as part of a magical ritual to attempt to bring his son back from the dead. An earlier movie he'd worked on but never shown to the public is part of the {{MacGuffin}}; UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein had to talk Chaplin out of showing the movie, as the mojo generated by the imagery would likely fry some audience brains.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Ghosts experience time backwards, so if one has the proper apparatus (involving [[spoiler:the specially prepared mummified head of someone chosen to be a medium]]) they can talk to ghosts to get hints of the future.
** The "dybbuk" is a kind of vengeful ghost, [[spoiler:not of somebody who died badly, but of somebody who was never born because of time travelers messing with their past]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Lisa Marrity dies on the first page, but her influence (and that of her father) overshadows the entire novel.
* PsychicLink: There's one between Frank and his daughter Daphne, that grows stronger over the course of the novel.
* PsychicPowers: Various characters exhibit precognition, psychokinesis, astral projection, and several versions of remote viewing.
* PunnyName: Charlotte uses the pseudonym "Libra Nosamalo", from "libera nos a malo" ("deliver us from evil"), a line from the Lord's Prayer.
* RetGone: The secret society villains can do this to a person.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: The traveler from the future remembers his timeline even after the event which led to it has been averted, which causes him to renew his efforts on the assumption that it's still going to happen somehow.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Charlotte is blind, but can see through the eyes of people near her. The ramifications and limitations are explored in some depth.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: ''Three Days to Never'' has, unusually for Powers, a version of time travel in which it's actually possible to change the past, and several people attempt to make use of it (generally with unpleasant consequences regardless of how noble their motives are).
* SpyFiction: The Mossad subplot is the Stale Beer variety.
* TimeTravel: As you'd expect in a novel about Albert Einstein's time machine.
The action takes place over three days in August 1987. Frank Marrity's grandmother dies in mysterious circumstances, and he discovers something strange and dangerous in her garden shed, something that is sought both by Mossad and by a centuries-old secret society. Something that just might, three days from now, bring about the end of the world.
!!This novel provides examples of:
* AncientConspiracy: The main villains are a sorcerous order with roots in the 13th century.
* BadassIsraeli: The Mossad team.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The MacGuffin is a truly unconventional [[TimeTravel time machine]] created by UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein as a result of his exploration into astral projection and the Sephirot, with Creator/CharlieChaplin lending a hand at some point.
* TheConstant: The method to steer the time machine to a particular point in time requires an object that was present there and underwent a significant change at the target moment.
* DemonicPossession: Lisa Marrity was haunted by a malevolent supernatural creature (referred to by the Jewish term "dybbuk") which transfers its attentions to Frank, and attempts to possess his daughter Daphne.
* DisappearedDad: Frank and his sister were raised by their grandmother after their father disappeared when they were very young. [[spoiler:It turns out their father didn't deliberately abandon them -- he was done in by the bad guys.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* {{Fingore}}: The first time Oren Lepidopt got one of his premonitions, he immediately tried to prove it wrong by going against what it predicted, and wound up minus a finger.
* FutureMeScaresMe: The plot is complicated by the arrival of a future version of one of the characters (from the distant future year of 2006), who is dangerously determined to prevent the course of events that produced him.
* GenderRestrictedAbility: Certain magical powers are restricted by gender; one of the characters is a sorcerer who, it turns out, was born female and went to extreme lengths to gain access to male magic.
* HistoricalFantasy: Does TheEighties count as "historical" yet?
* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: An emergency tracheotomy performed by a non-professional is a key plot event. It's not a neat Hollywood tracheotomy, and has serious repercussions.
* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: Creator/CharlieChaplin worked symbolic imagery into ''Film/CityLights'' as part of a magical ritual to attempt to bring his son back from the dead. An earlier movie he'd worked on but never shown to the public is part of the {{MacGuffin}}; UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein had to talk Chaplin out of showing the movie, as the mojo generated by the imagery would likely fry some audience brains.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Ghosts experience time backwards, so if one has the proper apparatus (involving [[spoiler:the specially prepared mummified head of someone chosen to be a medium]]) they can talk to ghosts to get hints of the future.
** The "dybbuk" is a kind of vengeful ghost, [[spoiler:not of somebody who died badly, but of somebody who was never born because of time travelers messing with their past]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Lisa Marrity dies on the first page, but her influence (and that of her father) overshadows the entire novel.
* PsychicLink: There's one between Frank and his daughter Daphne, that grows stronger over the course of the novel.
* PsychicPowers: Various characters exhibit precognition, psychokinesis, astral projection, and several versions of remote viewing.
* PunnyName: Charlotte uses the pseudonym "Libra Nosamalo", from "libera nos a malo" ("deliver us from evil"), a line from the Lord's Prayer.
* RetGone: The secret society villains can do this to a person.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: The traveler from the future remembers his timeline even after the event which led to it has been averted, which causes him to renew his efforts on the assumption that it's still going to happen somehow.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Charlotte is blind, but can see through the eyes of people near her. The ramifications and limitations are explored in some depth.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: ''Three Days to Never'' has, unusually for Powers, a version of time travel in which it's actually possible to change the past, and several people attempt to make use of it (generally with unpleasant consequences regardless of how noble their motives are).
* SpyFiction: The Mossad subplot is the Stale Beer variety.
* TimeTravel: As you'd expect in a novel about Albert Einstein's time machine.
