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...left field. But in each book, Carkeet demonstrated a gift for devising oddball characters and situations, then persuading the reader that they were real. In his third novel, I Been There Before, Carkeet's puckish fantasy finds Mark Twain, who was born during the 1835 appearance of Halley's comet and who died during its return in 1910, brought back to life once more by the comet's visit in 1985. From there the implausibilities mount. Twain engages in time travel. When events do not turn out as he likes, he causes whole swatches of his life to reoccur...
...confident of his literary skill yet desperately lonely upon returning to earth decades after the demise of everyone he knew. The writings attributed to him ring true. So do his poignant yearnings, not for literary immortality but for the sweet sleep of mortal oblivion. When Twain, again astride a comet's tail, rockets off, the reader may mourn his lively voice but cannot help wishing the world-weary writer godspeed. --By William A. Henry...
Celebrity Comet...
...Editors: We should pause during our excitement over the return of Halley's comet [SCIENCE, Dec. 16] to contemplate the observations the comet could make about us and our planet. Since the Wright brothers' flight in 1903, we have left the earth and visited the moon. We have sent probes to other planets and to the far reaches of our solar system. We have stopped being earthbound and have ventured out to greet the comet. In the next 75 years, will we still be waiting for Halley's comet to come to us, or will we be chasing it? John...
...hope to see Halley's comet the second time around. In 1910 our high school math teacher in my hometown, Nuremberg, Germany, took us to the medieval imperial castle, which overlooks the old city, and here we watched with awe the celestial phenomenon, never to be forgotten. Alfred J. Hopf Madison...