Timely Trickery
by Jon Racherbaumer

While we all intuitively understand what time is, even a child can tell you what time it is, it is a hard concept to fully understand from a scientific point of view. It is hard to define, and wrap your head around. That is part of the intrigue of making it the topic of a magic effect. Particularly for an interested and sophisticated audience it can be a very effective plot line. Jon Racherbaumer explores how magicians have made use of it over the decades, and he has unearthed some remarkable gems.

• Preface
• Foreword
• An Unusual Plot Emerges
  • The Charmed Watch
  • Charles Wicks
• Precursors
  • No Time Lost (Bruce Elliott)
  • The Time Machine (Walt Rollins)
  • Time Machine (Edward Marlo)
  • Pressed For Time
  • Ace Sandwich (Al Leech)
• Early Dislocations Of Time
  • The Prechosen Chosen Card (Fred Braue)
  • The Prior Prechosen Chosen Card (Stewart James)
  • One-Eyed Jack Sandwich (Harry Lorayne)
  • Return Of The One-Eyed Jack Sandwich (Ian Baxter)
  • The Card You Picked Before
  • You Took The One You Chose (Jon Racherbaumer)
  • Time-Warp Sandwich (Jon Racherbaumer)
  • Fixing The Time-Warp (Paul Gordon)
• Quickenings
  • Back In Time (Roy Walton)
  • Back To Back In Time (J. K. Hartman)
  • The Time Machine (Steve Freeman)
• Taking More Time
  • Back In Time (Jay Sankey)
  • No More Time Lost (Richard Bartram)
  • The Trick That Never Happened (Paul Cummins)
  • Traveler’s In Time (Roy Walton)
• More Time Dislocations
  • Fast-Faster-Fastest (Eric Eicher)
  • The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be (Jon Racherbaumer)

1st edition 2018, 93 pages.
word count: 24695 which is equivalent to 98 standard pages of text