![]() He assumes that he’s looking for a female Vivian … when Vivian Smith could just as easily be male. Nor has he twigged that the name ‘Vivian’ can be either male or female. So common that there are many Vivian Smiths to be found. He has failed to notice that Smith is a common surname. ![]() He has based it on fragments of overheard conversations and a few folktales. There are a few problems with Jonathan’s plan. He plans to waylay Vivian Smith and save the city! Having overheard conversations between his father, the Sempitern - Mayor, more or less - of Time City and the Time Council, Jonathan is convinced that the culprit can be none other than the Time Lady, whom he believes to be a certain Vivian Smith. Now, however, the City is subject to accelerating entropy. ![]() It is an existence that, for many years of their own time, has suited the people of Time City quite nicely. ![]() Time City’s inhabitants use their unique position to shape history itself. Time City exists in its own timeline it is able to access any moment in the past and future of our universe, whenever suits its inhabitants. She is not met by her cousin she is met by Jonathan Lee Walker, who kidnaps Vivian and whisks her off to a destination outside of time itself. Diana Wynne Jones’ 1987 A Tale of Time City is a standalone young-adult SF novel.ġ939: a year after World War Two has broken out, young Vivian Smith is sent off to the country, to live with her cousin Marty for the duration. ![]()
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