different, yet the same

Jack London writes a sci-fi!! Wow, that's different. Yet in this tale of a condemned convict who experiences something akin to astral projection, it is typical ( a good thing, btw) London adventure. This convict, when placed in a strait-jacket like contraption for perceived violations of death-row protocol, retreats in his consciousness and re-lives past lives across history. Some are simple events that maybe did or didn't happpen; in one instance he is a child in the Mountain Meadows Massacre in April 1857 (Mormon terrorists slaughtered a group from Arkansas headed to California). The book is pretty good if you like Jack London, by no means his finest. The various adventures are almost like extra-short short stories. While reading the short story parts, it's typical London tales of human will overcoming and being overcome.

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