QUANTUM LEAP
60 Minute Drama
Science Fiction / Adventure
ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1989 — 1993
BROADCASTER
NBC
SEASONS / EPISODES
5 Seasons / 95 Episodes
Quantum Leap is one of the early-1990s most fondly-remembered series, and was another in a long line of time travel shows. In this case, Dr Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) travelled back in time, displacing someone else whose mind (and body, according to later episodes) would be transported to the late-1990s where the Quantum Leap project was based. People in the past would still see the displaced person.
Unsurprisingly, Sam was unable to return home and kept leaping from place to place, helping people and changing time in a minor way as he went along. His only help on his travels was Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell), an ex-Navy Admiral and Vietnam POW, in the form of a hologram who only Sam could see and hear, and who had a penchant for cigars and extremely loud shirts.
The series eventually ran for five seasons before being cancelled, with the final episode of the series, Mirror Image, proving controversial. Sam arrived in a mysterious bar on the day of his birth, and by the end he realised that he could return home, but only if he really wanted to, and he decided on one further leap before doing so — returning to the scene of the episode M.I.A. and reuniting Al with his first wife, Beth.
The series ended with a caption explaining that Sam never returned home...
Novelisations
Quantum Leap: The Beginning
by
Julie Robitaille
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Corgi Books
Publication Date February 1990
Original Price £2.50
ISBN 0552136425
Other Editions
UK | Paperback | Boxtree | January 1994 | £3.99 | 1852833920
Boxtree's re-release of Julie Robitaille's two Quantum Leap novelisations occurred in January 1994, between the company's publication of The Wall (December 1993) and Prelude (August 1994). Both books would have their photographic covers replaced by new artwork from Keith Fowles, which was more in keeping with the reprints of the series of original American novels.
France | Paperback | J'ai Lu | January 1999 | 2277242365 | 2
The Beginning was released in France as the second book in the Code Quantum series. The first title was a translation of Ashley McConnell's Prelude, an original novel which dealt with the setting up of Project Quantum Leap prior to the start of the television series.
Novelised Episode
Genesis
Writer: Donald Bellisario
Transmission: 26/03/89
Back Cover Blurb — Corgi Books
It is the mid-1990's. Sam Beckett, a brilliant scientist, is the creator of the Quantum Leap project — the possibility of moving back and forth through the years of your own lifetime.
But one night his project goes horribly wrong, and Sam is transported back to 1956 by mistake. When he wakes up, he is suffering from amnesia, in the body of test pilot Captain Hank Stratton — which is a problem, as he doesn't know how to fly!
When the project's computer hits on the theory that God, or Time, or Something was waiting for Sam's Quantum Leap to correct a mistake in Stratton's life, Sam must find out what the mistake was, and put things right. Only then will he be able to return to the future.
Notes
- The Beginning is a novelisation of the feature-length pilot episode to Quantum Leap and was published to tie in with the debut of the series on BBC2 in the UK on 13 February, 1990. It was never released in the United States — one of the few TV tie-in books based on an American series that was to fall into this category.
- The back cover blurb to the original Corgi edition refers to Captain Hank Stratton rather than Captain Tom Stratton, which had been the original name for the character prior to filming. The main contents of the book are rather more accurate.
- Both of Julie Robitaille's Quantum Leap novelisations are written in the first person, in both instances from Sam's perspective.
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Quantum Leap: The Ghost and the Gumshoe
by
Julie Robitaille
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Corgi Books
Publication Date April 1990
Original Price £2.99
ISBN 1852833920
Other Editions
UK | Paperback | Boxtree | February 1994 | £3.99 | 1852833920
Boxtree's re-release of Julie Robitaille's two Quantum Leap novelisations occurred in January 1994, between the company's publication of The Wall (December 1993) and Prelude (August 1994). Both books would have their photographic covers replaced by new artwork from Keith Fowles, which was more in keeping with the reprints of the series of original American novels.
France | Paperback | J'ai Lu | January 1999 | 2290042900 | 4
Novelised Episodes
A Portrait for Troian
Teleplay: Donald Bellisario & Scott Shepard
Story: John Hill & Scott Shepard
Transmission: 13/12/89
Play it Again, Seymour
Teleplay: Donald Bellisario & Scott Shepard
Story: Donald Bellisario, Scott Shepard & Tom Blomquist
Transmission: 17/05/89
Back Cover Blurb — Corgi Books
It is the mid-1990's. Sam Beckett is a brilliant scientist, and the creator of the Quantum Leap project — moving back and forth through the years of your own lifetime.
After being transported back to 1956 by mistake, Sam's efforts to return keep him trapped away from his own time. Not only that, but he is forced to take the place of people he has never known or even heard of. Slipping constantly into one life after another, and having to right the wrongs in that life and hopefully change things for the better, Sam is a man out of time — all the time!
Notes
- As with The Beginning, The Ghost and the Gumshoe is written in the first person, from Sam's perspective. Unlike the earlier book, however, it adapts two episodes from the television series — Play it Again, Seymour from the end of Season 1 and A Portrait for Troian from Season 2. The latter was an episode which had been filmed for Season 1 and which was subsequently held back for the next run.
At the time of The Ghost and the Gumshoe's release (13/04/90), BBC2 in the UK had just finished showing their first run of episodes, comprising all of Season 1 plus Honeymoon Express, the first episode from Season 2. A Portrait for Troian, the first of the two episodes novelised in The Ghost and the Gumshoe, wouldn't be shown in the UK until January 1992 during BBC2's out-of-order broadcast of Season 2.
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Original Novels
Unlike the majority of US sci-fi TV book series, the original Quantum Leap novels didn't all receive their first publication in the United States. Of the ten titles which were released in the UK, seven were released before the equivalent US editions, and this advance publication necessitated the use of different cover art on the final four books to be released by Boxtree.
One significant way in which the Quantum Leap novels differ from the television series is that they feature far more of what is happening back at Project Quantum Leap during each of Sam's leaps, with familiar characters such as Ziggy, Gooshie, Tina, Verbeena Beeks and Sam's wife, Donna, all regularly appearing.
by
Ashley McConnell
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Ace
Publication Date November 1992
Original Price $4.99
ISBN 0441693229
Cover Artist Keith Birdsong
Other Editions
UK | Paperback | Boxtree | May 1993 | £3.99 | 185283871X
This was the only Quantum Leap novel to be re-titled for its UK release, presumably due to the fact that there had already been two novelisations in the country and something less generic than "The Novel" was required.
The Novel was also reprinted in the United States under the
Boulevard imprint (owned by
Berkley, like
Ace), and with a different ISBN (1572970944).
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN...
ONE QUANTUM LEAP FOR MANKIND
Convinced by his theory that a man could travel in his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator — and vanished.
Somehow he was transported not only in time, but into someone else's life...
And the Quantum Leap project took on a whole new dimension.
Back Cover Blurb — Ace
ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN...
ONE QUANTUM LEAP FOR MANKIND
Theorizing that a man could travel in his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator — and vanished.
Somehow he was transported not only in time, but into someone else's life...
And the Quantum Leap project took on a whole new dimension.
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Quantum Leap: Too Close for Comfort
by
Ashley McConnell
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Ace
Publication Date April 1993
Original Price $4.99
ISBN 0441693237
Cover Artist Keith Birdsong
Other Editions
UK | Paperback | Boxtree | May 1993 | £3.99 | 1852838760
Too Close for Comfort was also reprinted in the United States under the
Boulevard imprint (owned by
Berkley, like
Ace), and with a different ISBN (1572971576).
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
LEAPER BEWARE... THE FUTURE YOU ALTER MAY BE YOUR OWN
When Dr. Sam Beckett leaps into the middle of a men's encounter group, circa 1990, he meets...Al?
Not the holographic Al from the near-future, but a younger, soul-searching Al, beating his naked chest in a mock-tribal quest for his primitive nature!
It all seems pretty amusing to Sam — except for the fact that his mission could make or break the Quantum Leap Project...for ALL time.
Notes
- An author's note in the front of the book states that Too Close for Comfort takes place prior to the Season 4 episode A Leap for Lisa.
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by
Ashley McConnell
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Boxtree
Publication Date December 1993
Original Price £3.99
ISBN 1852838817
Cover Artist Keith Birdsong
The Wall was the first of seven Quantum Leap novels which would receive their initial publication in the UK. In the majority of cases, the equivalent US editions would follow in the next couple of months.
Other Editions
United States | Paperback | Ace | January 1994 | $4.99 | 0441000150
France | Paperback | J'ai Lu | January 1999 | 2277242373 | 3
The Wall was also reprinted in the United States under the
Boulevard imprint (owned by
Berkley, like
Ace), and with a different ISBN (1572972165).
Back Cover Blurb — Ace
WHEN YOU'RE UP AGAINST THE WALL, LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK...
Germany, 1961. A rigid world of dangerous politics and strife. The Berlin Wall is under construction. And Dr. Sam Beckett has leaped into the life of a six-year-old girl...
As Missy, he feels small and helpless. What can a child do to alter the fate of Germany and the world? Sam is about to find out — when he leaps again — into the adult Missy....
On the day the Wall comes tumbling down.
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
WHEN YOU'RE UP AGAINST THE WALL, LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK...
Germany, 1961. A rigid world of dangerous politics and strife. The Berlin Wall is under construction. And Dr. Sam Beckett has leaped into the life of a six-year-old girl...
As Missy, he feels small and helpless. What can a child do to alter the fate of Germany and the world? Sam is about to find out — when he leaps again into the adult Missy....
On the day the Wall comes tumbling down.
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by
Ashley McConnell
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Ace
Publication Date June 1994
Original Price $4.99
ISBN 0441000762
Cover Artist Keith Birdsong
Other Editions
UK | Paperback | Boxtree | August 1994 | £3.99 | 0752209299
France | Paperback | J'ai Lu | January 1999 | 2277242357 | 1
The J'ai Lu translation of Prelude was actually the first Quantum Leap book to be published in France, presumably as its storyline dealt with the setting up of Project Quantum Leap. The book series would then continue with The Beginning, the novelisation of the series' pilot episode.
Prelude was also reprinted in the United States under the
Boulevard imprint (owned by
Berkley, like
Ace), and with a different ISBN (1572971347).
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
HERE'S HOW IT ALL BEGAN!
Dr. Sam Beckett wasn't always a leaper. And Admiral Al Calavicci wasn't always a holographic image. In 1993, at Stallion's Gate, New Mexico, Sam and Al were ordinary men with extraordinary ambitions...
Project Quantum Leap was only a dream.
What was the secret that made Ziggy much more than a machine? Why did Sam really want to travel in time? Where was Al that fateful winter night? And who almost destroyed the dream before it began?
The answers are just a leap away...
Notes
- Prelude deals with the setting up of Project Quantum Leap, and concludes with Sam's first leap — seen on screen in Genesis, the opening episode of the series which was novelised as The Beginning.
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Quantum Leap: Knights of the Morningstar
by
Melanie Rawn
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Boxtree
Publication Date August 1994
Original Price £3.99
ISBN 0752208055
Cover Artist Keith Birdsong
Other Editions
United States | Paperback | Ace | September 1994 | $4.99 | 0441000924
France | Paperback | J'ai Lu | January 1999 | 2290043303 | 5
Le Jugement Du Fléau was the fifth and final book in the Code Quantum series to be released in France.
Knights of the Morningstar was also reprinted in the United States under the
Boulevard imprint (owned by
Berkley, like
Ace), and with a different ISBN (1572971711).
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree / Boulevard
A LEAPER IN SHINING ARMOR
When the blue light fades after his latest Leap, Dr. Sam Beckett finds himself wielding a sword — and facing a man in full armor!
No, Sam hasn't leaped into the court of King Arthur. He's jousting his way through a medieval recreation group, battling for the hand of a fair lady. But swordfighting isn't the only challenge Sam faces. A sinister new player has entered the game. Someone who threatens not only the Project, but Sam's life as well...
Another Leaper.
Notes
- Knights of the Morningstar features Alia and Zoey, the 'Evil Leaper' and her hologram helper who were introduced in the Season 5 television episode Deliver Us from Evil.
According to an author's note at the front of the book, Knights of the Morningstar is set sometime after that episode, but prior to the two-part story Return of the Evil Leaper / Revenge of the Evil Leaper which was produced later the same season.
- Knights of the Morningstar was the only Quantum Leap novel to be written by Melanie Rawn.
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Quantum Leap: Search and Rescue
by
Melissa Crandall
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Boxtree
Publication Date November 1994
Original Price £4.99
ISBN 0752208004
Cover Artist Keith Birdsong
Other Editions
United States | Paperback | Ace | December 1994 | $4.99 | 044100122X
Search and Rescue was also reprinted in the United States under the
Boulevard imprint (owned by
Berkley, like
Ace), and with a different ISBN (1572971789).
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree / Ace
WHEN TRAPPED BETWEEN TWO STORMS, SURVIVAL BECOMES A LEAP OF FAITH...
The thunder rolls over the desert in New Mexico, and Sam Beckett leaps into a man named Philip Payne, a doctor involved in the search for a plane that went down in the wilds of British Columbia.
The lighting flashes — and Project Observer Al Calavicci also leaps, into a passenger on the plane.
Now Sam must race against time and the forces of nature for the sake of a father and daughter at bitter odds — and for the life of his friend.
Notes
- Search and Rescue takes its cue from the Season 4 episode The Leap Back, in which a lightning strike at Project Quantum Leap caused Al and Sam to exchange places, with Al travelling backwards to 1945 and Sam briefly returning home.
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Quantum Leap: Random Measures
by
Ashley McConnell
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Boxtree
Publication Date November 1994
Original Price £4.99
ISBN 0752209345
Cover Artist Colin Howard
From Random Measures onwards the Boxtree editions in the UK would be far enough ahead of the equivalent US editions to require specially commissioned cover art, and like the final three titles released in the UK, this job would fall to British artist Colin Howard.
Other Editions
United States | Paperback | Ace | March 1995 | $3.99 | 0441001823
Because the UK editions were by now being released ahead of the US editions, Boxtree needed to commission their own cover art. However, Ace in the United States would continue to their own cover art, which from Random Measures through to Song and Dance would be by Stephen Gardner. Random Measures was the final Quantum Leap book to be released in the United States under the Ace imprint. All future volumes would be from Boulevard.
Random Measures was also reprinted in the United States under the
Boulevard imprint (owned by
Berkley, like
Ace), and with a different ISBN (1572970952).
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
LOVERS AND LEAPERS... WILL DEATH DO THEM PART?
Sam's got trouble. He's leaped into a young half-breed Indian named Wickie — with no background, no mission, and no word from Al.
Meanwhile, Al's found something more interesting than Sam's mission. A beautiful woman named Janna...Janna Calavicci. As in Mrs. Al Calavicci.
But marital bliss may be short-lived as time runs out for Sam. And Al must make a deadly choice. Because helping Sam could change more than Wickie's future. It could erase Janna from his life forever...
Notes
- Random Measures was the fifth and final Quantum Leap novel to be written by Ashley McConnell.
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by
L Elizabeth Storm
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Boxtree
Publication Date April 1995
Original Price £4.99
ISBN 075220677X
Cover Artist Colin Howard
Other Editions
United States | Paperback | Boulevard | June 1995 | $5.99 | 1572970227
Once again the Boulevard edition would use new cover art by Stephen Gardner, rather than that which had been used on the Boxtree release in the UK.
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
A LEAP FOR AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Maryland, 1975. Sam has leaped into a psychiatrist at Bethesda Naval Hospital. A newly released POW just off the plane from Vietnam — a Lieutenant John Doe — has been admitted for psychiatric evaluation.
But when Sam walks into Doe's room for the first time, he realizes this soldier has a name to go with his face: Lieutenant Al Calavicci.
Now Sam must think fast, because some unhappy Pentagon officials have questions for Al. Questions about his imprisonment. His captors. And his reported treason against the United States of America...
Notes
- Pulitzer is effectively a sequel to the Season 2 episode M.I.A. and deals with Al's return to the US after years as a POW in Vietnam. It also ties in with events in The Leap Home, Part 2: Vietnam, in which photographer Maggie Dawson took a picture of Al in captivity, just before she was killed.
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Quantum Leap: Double or Nothing
by
CJ Henderson
(with Laura Anne Gilman)
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Boxtree
Publication Date August 1995
Original Price £4.99
ISBN 0752206826
Cover Artist Colin Howard
Other Editions
United States | Paperback | Boulevard | December 1995 | $5.99 | 1572970553
Double or Nothing was the third US Quantum Leap release which would use new cover art by Stephen Gardner, rather than that which had been used on equivalent the Boxtree release in the UK.
Back Cover Blurb — Boulevard
ONE LEAP, TWO BODIES...
May 10, 1986: Sam Leaps into a hard-living trucker, faced with family and financial disaster.
May 10, 1986: Sam leaps into a brilliant university professor, a man who seems to have it all.
Back at the Project, Ziggy announces that she is sick, the man in the Waiting Room won't wake up, and Al — unable to contact Sam — is feeling increasingly desperate.
As of May 10, 1986, Sam is on a collision course with himself — trapped in twin brothers — who are mortal enemies...
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
A DANGEROUS DOSE OF DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR SAM BECKETT!
It is a bad leap.
The most disturbing leap Sam has ever encountered.
A leap so confusing that Al and Ziggy cannot locate Sam. All of Ziggy's biological computer programs have been broken apart, split down the middle... And the reason?
Sam has leapt into Ward Ralston, a selfish, brutal truck driver AND into the body of Ward's twin brother and exact polar opposite, Mark, a self-sacrificing, gentle professor and environmental activist.
The brothers have not spoken to one another in fifteen years. But now, by a bizarre and deadly twist of fate, their paths are about to cross inextricably with catastrophic consequences involving unstable nuclear warhead dumping and corporate dirty dealing.
And Sam is caught right in the middle...
Notes
- Laura Anne Gilman is only credited as co-author inside the Boxtree edition of Double or Nothing.
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by
Barbara E Walton
Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Boxtree
Publication Date October 1995
Original Price £4.99
ISBN 0752206877
Cover Artist Colin Howard
Odyssey was the tenth and final Quantum Leap novel to be published in the UK.
Other Editions
United States | Paperback | Boulevard | March 1996 | $5.99 | 1572970928
Once again the Boulevard edition would use new cover art by Stephen Gardner, rather than that which had been used on the Boxtree release in the UK.
Back Cover Blurb — Boxtree
ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN...
ONE QUANTUM LEAP FOR MANKIND
Dr. Sam Beckett Leaps and finds himself standing toga-clad, lightning bolt in hand, But this is not Ancient Rome. It is a small town in upstate New York, January 21, 1983. Sam has leaped into twelve-year-old Sean O'Connor in a school competition. But this is no ordinary school. And Sean is no ordinary boy.
Sean O'Connor is participating in a gifted student's competition called Olympics of the Mind which is about to be cancelled by the state. It is a loss that will have drastic implications for all the young students involved.
The situation is grim. Sean is the only child of a divorced alcoholic mother. The other students also come from very unstable family backgrounds. Their very futures are at risk. What can Sam do? Who will listen to a twelve-year-old boy? Can the program be saved? Time is slowly running out...
Notes
- Odyssey was the only book in the Quantum Leap series to be written by Barbara E Walton.
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Quantum Leap: Independence
by
John Peel
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date August 1996
Original Price $5.99
ISBN 1572971509
Cover Artist Stephen Gardner
Back Cover Blurb
A LEAP FOR LIBERTY?
It's August 1776. The War for Independence has begun, pitting neighbor against neighbor. Samuel Beckett must take his stand with one side or the other.
But Samuel Beckett — the real Samuel Beckett — is now over two-hundred years in the future and his several-times-great-grandson has taken his place.
Is Samuel Beckett a patriot or a Tory? Or, as some suspect, a double agent? Ziggy doesn't know and Sam's swiss-cheesed brain can't remember the family history. So Sam is left on his own to discover the dangerous truth...
Notes
- According to the text, Independence takes place at some point after the Season 5 episode The Leap Between the States, in which Sam had leaped into his great-grandfather during the American Civil War — the only television episode in which Sam seen to have travelled back along his own bloodline.
- Despite there being an entry for the book on the amazon.co.uk website, Independence was not released by Boxtree in the UK, either as Independence or under the alternative title Leap into the Unknown.
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Quantum Leap: Angels Unaware
by
L Elizabeth Storm
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date January 1997
Original Price $5.99
ISBN 1572972068
Cover Artist Stephen Gardner
Back Cover Blurb
A LEAPER EARNS HIS WINGS...
September, 1981. A little girl named Teresa Bruckner is visited by an angel — a man in strange clothes, who says his name is Al. He sings her a lullaby and promises to come back someday, before vanishing in a flash of blue light.
April, 1995. Teresa Bruckner is no longer sure she believes in the angel named Al. In fact, she doesn't know what she believes in anymore. So she goes to a peaceful New England monastery to rest and think and plan. And, according to Ziggy to die.
Now Sam Beckett — who has Leaped into a visiting priest — must change things for Teresa, as he did once before. But the odds are not good, and it soon becomes obvious that it will take more than one Leaper and one cigar-smoking angel to save her from certain death...
Notes
- Angels Unaware sees the return of a now grown-up Teresa Bruckner, who appeared in the Season 2 episode Another Mother, and Angela Jiminez from the Season 4 episode It's a Wonderful Leap.
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by
Carol Davis
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date March 1997
Original Price $5.99
ISBN 1572972416
Cover Artist Stephen Gardner
Back Cover Blurb
LEAPING ALL YOUR TROUBLES BEHIND?
A woman named Stephanie Keller has come to Albuquerque, demanding to see Dr. Samuel Beckett, immediately. Who is she? A fortune-hunting opportunist? A sensation-seeking journalist? Or, as she claims, Sam's wife...
Sam Beckett, the one person who might be ale to answer these questions, isn't available, of course. He's fifteen years in the past, enjoying a Leap that seems almost like vacation, as a winter caretaker in a summer resort, with very little to do, and only a large friendly dog for company.
What he doesn't know, what he can't be told, is that Stephanie Keller is about turn his life and his work into a tabloid headline. Whether she is a glitch in time, or a scam artist, she has become a threat to the very existence of Project Quantum Leap. And if she can't be stopped, Sam's vacation Leap may be his last...
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Quantum Leap: Loch Ness Leap
by
Sandy Schofield
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date July 1997
Original Price $5.99
ISBN 1572972319
Cover Artist Stephen Gardner
Back Cover Blurb
A MONSTER LEAP...
Dr. Donald Harding, theoretical physicist, believes only in science. His son Travis believes in the unbelievable.
It's March of 1986 when Sam leaps into Harding, who has come to Loch Ness, where his son is attempting to prove to him the existence of the fabled monster. Ziggy says that there is a fifty percent chance that Sam is there to keep the two from becoming permanently estranged.
But Sam suspects that there is something more to the leap — something concerning Travis Harding`s girlfriend, an oddly familiar young woman who calls herself Dixie Fuller.
Sam is right. He is not at Loch Ness for Donald Harding's son — he is there for his own daughter. And what he does will be the key to her future — as well as his own...
Notes
- Sandy Schofield is a pseudonym for Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.
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by
Melanie Kent
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date November 1997
Original Price $5.99
ISBN 1572973129
Cover Artist Stephen Gardner
Back Cover Blurb
THE HEAT IS ON...
Summer, 1955: During one of the most brutal heat waves in recent memory, Sam Leaps into a sheriff in small-town Oklahoma. A young white woman has been viciously murdered, and the only suspect is black — an honest man who stands to lose everything if convicted.
Sam must move fast to prove the man's innocence — while keeping the peace in a town about to be torn apart by racial violence.
Meanwhile, the real killer is watching Sam's every move — waiting for the perfect moment to end the investigation for good...
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Quantum Leap: Foreknowledge
by
Christopher DeFilippis
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date March 1998
Original Price $6.99
ISBN 1572973129
Cover Artist Stephen Gardner
Back Cover Blurb
A LETHAL LEAP...
It's 1976, and Sam Leaps out of a woman named Ann-Marie Renerie. But Ann-Marie is not pleased with her changed life. She's left with plea-bargained jail sentence she doesn't remember agreeing to, and a hazy memory of the name of the man she thinks is responsible for her imprisonment.
1988: Ann-Marie's sentence is over, and now she is dedicated to the single, obsessive purpose that got her through twelve years in prison. Death to Dr. Sam Beckett!
Meanwhile, Sam, on his messiest mission yet — as a female mud wrestler — must work on his own. He can't be told that Al and the rest of the Project are frantically struggling to stop a madwoman before she stops Sam Beckett — forever!
Notes
- An author's note in the front of the book states that Foreknowledge takes place after the three-part Trilogy from Season 5 of the television series.
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Quantum Leap: Song and Dance
by
Mindy Peterman
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date October 1998
Original Price $6.99
ISBN 0425165779
Cover Artist Stephen Gardner
Back Cover Blurb
LEAP FOR THE STARS...
It's 1978, and Sam has Leaped into Noah Ellman, son to Gerda Ellman. Gerda, a former borscht-belt dancer, is just days away from fulfilling her dreams of stardom. If Sam can make sure that her partner Marty shows up for the "You Can Be a Star" talent search.
But Sam has other ideas about the reason for the Leap. Noah is a man woefully lacking in self-confidence. His new employer, Rebecca Wexler, is a young woman hiding a terrible secret.
Al's having trouble keeping Sam focused on the search for the deadbeat dancer. And he's getting no help from Ziggy, who has "gone on strike."
For Ziggy knows something that neither Leaper nor Observer has yet discovered — "Marty" will turn out to be a familiar face. And changing his life for the better could change the Project for the worse...
Notes
- Without giving anything away (mainly because the revelation is the biggest un-surprise imaginable!) Marty turns out to be none other than Gooshie.
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Quantum Leap: Mirror's Edge
by
Carol Davis
with
Esther D Reese
Country United States
Format Paperback
Publisher Boulevard
Publication Date February 2000
Original Price $6.99
ISBN 0425173518
Cover Artist Cliff Miller
Back Cover Blurb
THE LAST LEAP?
It's 1999 —
Five years after the Leap that started it all.
It's 1999 —
For Sam Beckett who has leaped into Joe Powell, one of the richest men in America, a potential presidential candidate, and a man who is used to getting his way.
It's 1999 —
For Al Calavicci, for Donna Alessi-Beckett, for all the people at Project Quantum Leap who know that Sam is in their present, home but yet not home.
But the holes in Sam's Swiss cheese memory are starting to fill, the man in the Waiting Room is strangely, disturbingly calm, and Ziggy is dispensing information that can hardly be believed.
Something is about to happen. Something that will change Sam's life and the lives of those who love him — forever.
Notes
- Mirror's Edge takes place immediately before Mirror Image, the final episode of the television series.
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Quantum Leap: The Beginning
