Critical Reception
Kirkus Reviews called Time After Time a "rather heavy-breathing, often precious or pretentious fantasy". On the other hand, Associated Press book reviewer Phil Thomas thought the book was a "well-written, most absorbing piece of escape reading" that "gives the genre a lively and much-needed shot of vitamins". A reviewer for the Madison Courier called Alexander "outrageously imaginative" and the book "marvelous entertainment".
After the release of Felix J. Palma's 2008 Spanish-language novel The Map of Time, which also has a time-travel plot involving Wells and Jack the Ripper, critics commented on the similarities (and differences) between the two books.
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