Gonna have some time on my hands this holiday. Looking for recommendations; Books where time-travel figures prominently.
Any suggestions?
I’ll start with Replay by Ken Grimwood. My favorite time-travel novel to date. Yours?
Gonna have some time on my hands this holiday. Looking for recommendations; Books where time-travel figures prominently.
Any suggestions?
I’ll start with Replay by Ken Grimwood. My favorite time-travel novel to date. Yours?
ROADMARKS, by Roger Zelazny - apparently after he wrote it, he shuffled half the chapters into a random order and inserted them between the other half
THE ANUBIS GATES, by Tim Powers - one of the tightest closed-loop time-travel stories I’ve ever read, and great fun besides
ALL OF AN INSTANT, by Richard Garfinkle
An essential classic to my mind, Time and Again, by Jack Finney.
The Accidental Time Machine is good. Not great, but a quick, fun read.
Madeleine L’Engle’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ Still one of my favorite books, altho I never read another novel of hers.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet was my favorite book of that set, reading them as a kid, and the one most concerned with time travel.
Lightning, by Dean Koontz.
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp. And, arguably, The Glory That Was* by him also. his Rivers of Time is also good – it’s his original short story A Gun for Dinosaur followed by lots of follow-up stories with the same cast. And several of his other short stories, including Aristotle and the Gun.
Leo Frankowski’s *Cross-Time Engineer * series. At least the early ones.
James Hogan’s The Protreus Operation.
Heinlein’s stories All You Zombies and By His Bootstraps
Robert L. Forward’s TimeMaster, the work of a physicist who doesn’t buy the “Grandfather Paradox”, and wanted to write an accurate Time Travel story.
David Gerrold’s The Man who Folded Himself, which seems to be a determined effort to put every Time Travel idea and cliche into a single book.
*don’t spoil things for those who haven’t read it.
ooh. good one.
hmm. soon as i finish off the dresden files (2 books to go) i’ll check that out.
The Time Traveler’s Wife, although that may not be exactly what you’re looking for.
Millennium by John Varley. Bonus: all the chapter titles are titles of other time travel stories.
Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time.
Simon Hawke’s Time Wars series is fun if not very deep.
Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove - time travel AND alternative history. A 2-for-1 combo plate.
The End of Eternity, by Isaac Asimov
Another vote for this one. I love the part where the main character hears someone whistling “Yesterday”…in 1810.
My favorites are Connie Willis’s novels, all set in the same universe and featuring historians from the Oxford University of the future:
Doomsday Book - time travel to England during the Black Plague, very sad.
To Say Nothing of the Dog - time travel to Victorian England, very funny.
*Blackout *and All Clear (both published this year) - time travel to WWII England during the Blitz. There’s also a short story called Fire Watch that is set during the Blitz at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Einstein’s Bridge, by John Cramer.
The Door Into Summer, by Robert Heinlein
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by JK Rowling