Bid Time Return

Bid Time Return
First edition cover
AuthorRichard Matheson
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
February 24, 1975
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages278 pp
ISBN0-89966-514-4
OCLC33446645

Bid Time Return is a 1975 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson. It concerns a man from the 1970s who travels back in time to court a 19th-century stage actress whose photograph has captivated him. In 1980, it was made into the film Somewhere in Time, the title of which was used for subsequent editions of the book.

Matheson has stated, "Somewhere in Time is the story of a love which transcends time, What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death.... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form."[1]

  1. ^ Matheson, Richard. Somewhere in Time. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1998, pp. 318-319.