Timeslip

Pan Books published this novel based on children's TV series Timeslip. It was based on the first two serials, 'The Wrong End of Time' and 'The Time of the Ice Box'.

The novel is a straight retelling of these stories and very little was altered to accommodate the prose format. The explanations of time travel theory throughout the book are actually clearer than they come across in the television series.

The front cover of the book depicts a scene from 'The Time of the Ice Box' and shows Dr. Bukov (John Barcroft) examining the inert bodies of Liz and Simon on the ice field. The back shows the pair of time travellers, still unconscious, lying in the ice box's infirmary.

The novel itself was written quickly to accommodate the very short lead-time given by the publishers Pan Books. There is no actual author credit on the cover or inside the book but the adaptation of Bruce Stewart's scripts fell to Ruth Boswell's husband, James.