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100 1 _aBarr, Stephen
245 1 0 _aTybalt
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1962
500 _aRelease date is 2020-01-05
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Tybalt" by Stephen Barr is a science fiction novella written in the early 1960s. This imaginative work explores the complexities of adolescence and identity through the experiences of its main character, Howard Dax, who, amidst his struggles as a physics teacher, embarks on an experimental journey involving time travel and transformation. The story effectively intertwines themes of scientific inquiry with the trials of youth and societal pressures. In the narrative, Howard Dax, feeling worn down by his life, conducts an experiment to travel back in time, intending to inhabit the body of one of his ancestors. However, the procedure goes awry, and he instead becomes a cat named Tybalt during the late Middle Ages in England. Through Tybalt's experiences, Dax encounters the challenges of survival in a primitive world, the complexities of human interactions, and the humorous absurdities of being a jester's companion. As he tries to communicate his true identity and find a way back to his original self, he grapples with both the fear of being killed and the limits of understanding across vastly different eras, leading to a blend of humor, tension, and philosophical reflection on the nature of existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aTeachers -- Fiction
653 _aTime travel -- Fiction
653 _aExperiments -- Fiction
700 1 _aBurns
830 0 _aProduced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1962
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61110
999 _c101936
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