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  • This Looks Strangely Familiar

    If you’re a fan of “Fumbling Toward Ecstasy”, then I have a feeling you’re really going to enjoy Jack Finney’s novels Time and Again and From Time to Time.  Though I’d never heard of Finney until six months ago, our works bear striking similarities.  Time and Again is about an advertising professional named Simon who’s recruited for a secret government project trying to achieve time travel.  Instead of using a time machine to travel back in time, participants use hypnosis or self-hypnosis to transport themselves.  Simon travels back to 1882.

    In the sequel, From Time to Time, Simon travels back to 1911 to try to prevent World War I.  His mission leads him to Belfast, where the Titanic is under construction, and he eventually ends up on the Titanic.

    I haven’t read these gems, yet, but I’ve read a few reviews, including the Wikipedia entries about them.  The similarities between his plots and mine are eery.  I certainly plan to take a look at Finney’s novels after “The Journal” is completed!

    By the way, if, like me, you think you’ve never heard of Finney’s work before, you might want to think again. Finney wrote the The Body Snatchers, the novel on which the classic 1950s movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers is based.

  • About Engage Fiction

    HISTORY

    Engage Fiction was created by Dani Thomas Course as a way to accessorize and publicize her fiction and related content.  Engage Fiction began in 2001 as RAVE Fiction on the Geocities network.  RAVE fiction became ENGAGE Media in 2004 as part of a prototype for a science-fiction/fantasy magazine called Engage Magazine.  Online, Engage moved briefly to the Freewebs network before settling into a site on the Tripod network.  In mid-2009, Engage underwent another name change and found another home on the web.  ENGAGE Media became Engage Fiction and it’s main site moved to Google Sites.

    CONTENT

    In the years since its inception, Engage Fiction has expanded to include a presence on several sites around the web:  Fanfiction.net, Livejournal, Blogger, WordPress, and Google Sites.  EF produces mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and historical fanfiction stories, along with supplemental content.  A large amount of it is in the Star Trek fandom.  EF also produces original short stories, series, and screenplays.

    DISCLAIMER

    The material featured on all EF sites is not intended to infringe upon the rights of original content creators/owners.  No money or other form of compensation has been accepted, nor will it ever be, for this material.  Creators/owners retain the rights of their respective original characters and/or content.  Any original content appearing on any EF website remains the sole property of EF and/or its contributors and may not be distributed, appropriated, or used in any other manner without the express permission of the author/content owner.  Original content may be under protection of applicable copyright law.

    Images and other material, excluding literary content, appearing on all EF sites are used without permission.  They were found on the Internet, and no infringement is intended.  If your content appears on this site and you want it removed, please contact EF at bdthomas1@gmail.com, and it will be removed as soon as possible.  This applies to visual and non-visual material including but not limited to photos, song titles and lyrics, names, places, and film dialogue and content.

    It is not the desire or intent of EF to violate any copyright laws or otherwise infringe upon anyone’s rights.  EF makes no money from its websites; likewise, EF asks that anyone accessing the site (except for the web hosts), not use any of the material appearing here for monetary gain.  If you do, you do so at your own risk!

  • We’re Back!

    Hello, everyone!  After a lengthy hiatus, Engage is back, and we’ve got tons of exciting new things planned for our fans and readers.

    The first change, and perhaps the most visible, is our moniker.  For nearly four years, we’ve been known as Engage Media.  Recently, we decided that a name change would enable us to narrow our focus and more accurately and precisely reflect our content.  We want people to know exactly what they’re getting when they hear or see our name emblazoned across the top of a web page.  With a name like Engage Fiction, we’ll be able to accomplish exactly that.

    The next big change you’ll notice is our website at Tripod.  It doesn’t exist anymore.  Since its inception, the Engage website was intended to serve as the hub for Engage content, including hosting digital copies of Engage stories, links to fanfic sites featuring Engage stories, and news about or inspired by Engage stories. For about two years, Tripod offered a great way for us to display our content.  We thought we had the perfect web host … until they decided to change their site builder application.  In short, the old builder was good; the new one is bad.  REALLY bad.  Rather than attempt to wrangle with their new builder, we set out in search of a new web host.  We found one which we believe will serve us very well:  Google.  Google has a whole cache of useful and innovative tools that most people know nothing about, their web hosting service among them.  Will Google Sites be the answer to our website prayers?  Only time will tell.

    Our new structure is our third big change.  We want to give our readers the best experience possible, so we’re experimenting with multiple websites and formats.  Our stories will be housed primarily at Fanfiction.net.  That’s where you read our content “hot off the press”.  Engage Fiction at Livejournal will run “re-runs” of previous stories and possibly some original series that don’t fit in over at Fanfiction.net.   Engage Fiction at Google will host supplementary information for stories, including photos, soundtrack listings, and much more.  Engage Fiction at Blogger, the website you’re currently reading, will present EF news and developments.  This is the source on the web for up-to-date information about EF (we’re also on Twitter if you care to receive up-to-the-minute news about EF).  Finally, our EF presence on WordPress is Rian Gordon’s blog, where she writes about her life and experiences as a dancer relocating to the U.S. after working and living in Europe for a few years.

    As you can tell, we have a lot of exciting changes in store for our readers.  We’re glad to have you along for the ride, and we welcome your feedback and your ideas.  Happy reading!

    Dani