Books about time travel?

Pretty much everything I’ve read from S.M. Stirling involves time travel, though usually as a single unexplained event and with all the story in the aftermath. His T2 trilogy starts from the end of that movie and could have made three far better sequels than T2 ended up with.

ETA: Watch out for his Change series. It’s good, but shifts from SF into Fantasy midstream. It can be jarring if you aren’t ready for it.

Eric Flint’s 1632 and sequels is another one with a single incident of time travel (of an American town and environs, to Germany in 1632) and the rest is dealing with the consequences.

Mine, as well. Never heard anyone else talk about it though. Phenominal book.

Blackout by Connie Willis
The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson
Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick

Disappointingly, the vast majority of these recommendations aren’t available for the Kindle.

Up the Line by Robert Silverberg - it’s about a tour guide working for the Time Service, showing groups of boorish tourists the glories of the rise and fall of Byzantium. Lots of sex, violence and time loops, and one of the most famous last lines in the genre.

For “Good Reads” I’d recommend Poul Anderson. The Corridors of Time, The Dancer from Atlantis (though that is a one off accident), There will be Time, and the Time Patrol series of short stories.

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov hasn’t been mentioned yet, and it’s very good.

Post #17.

And I have to admit, much as I love Asimov, I was bored by it.

Gah. I didn’t see it. Someone must have snuck it in there when I wasn’t looking.

It’s been a while since I read it, and I was reading or re-reading everything by Asimov that I could get my hands on.

Here’s two more - “Dinosaur Beach” by Keith Laumer, and “Behold The Man” by Michael Moorcock.

Well, I liked it. More than *The Stars Like Dust * anyway, to take another Asimov novel.

Project Gutenberg has Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time, previously mentioned. Plus No Great Magic, also set in The Time War; I read this one on its original publication in Galaxy–when I was very young.

For amazingly funny (not to say absurdist) time travel, among other things, try the Thursday Next books (read 'em in order) by Jasper Fforde. The first one is THE EYRE AFFAIR.

I second this recommendation. This is a novel that’s specifically about time travel rather than using time travel as a device for some other plot.

I really enjoyed The Time Traveler’s Wife, too, although it’s by no means your typical sf time travel story. Replay is also fantastic - I spent great chunks of that book just grinning like an idiot. Now that I’m thinking about it again, I want to reread it!

Imzadi by Peter David is the best Star Trek time travel book I’ve ever read. Really, really good. (Skip the sequel, though).

Jerry Yulsman’s Elleander Morning is a little too sketchy on how its time travel works, but as a story it can’t be beat - a woman who lost a son on D-Day decides to go back and kill Hitler while he’s still a starving artist in Vienna. Fascinating to see how history unfolds instead.

Although dated now, John Jakes’s Time Gate isn’t bad (about trying to prevent a presidential assassination through time travel). Good for teens.

Two deservedly-classic short stories on the subject: Robert Heinlein’s “-All You Zombies-” and Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder.”

Also, in that same vein, Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. Okay, it’s really about a marriage, so definitely chick-lit; but time travel is a key point, and her research (Scotland, France, and colonial North Carolina in the eighteenth century) is pretty good - if you overlook the Mackenzies wearing metal clan crests in their bonnets, that is.

Ummm, my serial Christmas story for this year: 25 Doors.

I’m writing it one chapter per day in December until Christmas, so there are holes you could drive a truck through, but I’m enjoying it at least!

Agreed; Excellent book. (and thanks to Suranyi, as well). :slight_smile:

There are some duplicates but I recommend
*Galileo’s Dream *by Kim Stanley Robinson
Evolution by Steve Baxter. No time travel per se, but Baxter extrapolates primate history from 75,000,000 B.C. to 500,000,000 A.D.
*The Dancer from Atlantis, The Corridors of Time, and There will be Time *by Poul Anderson. Also, his story “The Man Who Came Early,” is a classic short story.
“The Shadow out of Time” by H.P. Lovecraft
“The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. This is in his collection, R is for Rocket, which contains some other wonderful stories
“Soldier,” both as short story and teleplay by Harlan Ellison