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timmo
Since: Jul, 2013
13th Sep, 2016 02:08:44 PM
It might have been as late as 1987, but no later.
timmo
Since: Jul, 2013
13th Sep, 2016 06:22:56 PM
It's Time Trap by Nicholas Fisk - found it!
Hi, I wonder if anyone could help me remember a book I read in around 1985-1986.
A boy lives in a city in the future (it's a domed city I believe) and with the help of an old man he can time travel. He goes back to be an evacuee in world war 2 but when he returns to the future city he finds the memory fading (he can't remember the colour of the panel on the piano they used to sing around for example).
He also travels to the future where humanity has gone outside again and there are acres of fields. A robot sprays them with a pink spray that they can only remove with gin when they return to their present (the future city).
There is also a brutal gang headed by a girl who is pretty and cruel and their paths cross at various times during his time travel - she is his nemesis.
Any idea what the book was? Many thanks, Timmo
Edited by timmo