bThe 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called iTHEi great time-travel story. Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of iRecursioni, Blake Crouch.b pWhen advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his mundane 20th-century existence and step into the past. But he also has another motivation for going back in time a half-burned letter that tells of a mysterious, tragic death and ominously of fire which will destroy the whole world. pTraveling to New York City in January 1882 to investigate, he finds a Manhattan teeming with a different kind of life, the waterfront unimpeded by skyscrapers, open-air markets packed with activity, Central Park bustling with horse drawn sleighs--a city on the precipice of great things. At first, Si welcomes these trips as a temporary escape but when he falls in love with a woman