Let me guess, he inspires Twain to write Connecticut Yankee, right?
Harry Harrison’s “A Rebel in Time” also deals with a time traveler looking to help the south win the Civil War and the black army officer who goes back to stop him. Written years before that book by the other Harry.
Would have loved to see this one made into a movie. At the time I read it I was picturing John Vernon (Dean Wormer) and Denzel as the antagonists.
The best I’ve ever read in this specific genre is Kindred, by the amazing Octavia Butler. A modern black woman is involuntarily transported back to the antebellum South, where she meets her white father and black mother.
How can she be modern and have parents in the antebellum? :dubious:
It looks like they were her direct ancestors, not her parents.
The group of people is from South Africa, and they are from farther up than the 90s. They wanted the South to survive so they could keep apartheid going.
:smack: Sorry about that, brainfart. Yes, her ancestors, not her mom and dad.
Yeah, they are from 2014 or so, as I recall (they can only travel back exactly 150 years, for reasons that must be derived from the first principles of physics)
“The Bishop’s Bird Stump!”
Here’s a few modern ones I’ve read this year:
"Bones of the Earth" by Michael Swanwick.
And the more lighthearted, yet very imaginative, fun and well written “In Times Like These” trilogy by Nathan Van Coops.
Also, one of my more resent favorites, “The Accidental Time Machine” by Joe Haldeman.
Blackout/All Clear made me cry.
Bring the Jubilee, about a world where the South won the Civil War, and a Northerner goes back in time to observe the events of the war which led to the Southern victory, only to interfere and change the “history”.
Oh, one more I really like - If I Never Get Back. A modern day man, whose life is going nowhere, winds up time traveling back to 1869, and becomes a hanger-on, and then a player, with the Cincinnati Red Stockings. If you like baseball, the author did a great job of detailing what the country and baseball was like in those days. He goes into great detail about the real-life players on the team. It also includes the Irish Republican Army, and a love interest.
Wow…I get busy for a few days & this thread explodes! TY!
11/22/63 is currently on the wait list at the library (long list!). In the mean time I’ve been reading some of Clint Hill’s books on the subject.
Although some of the later suggestions fall a little outside the time perimeter that I set, they still seem interesting. At least now I seem to have enough suggestions to keep me busy for a while!
+1-ing The Anubis Gates. Great book and within your time period I believe.
Not sure about the time periods, but also +1-ing The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog. I loved them both. Very different books, although they are by the same author - The Doomsday Book made me cry and To Say Nothing of the Dog made me laugh. Then of course I had to read Three Men in A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, which also made me laugh.
11/22/63 was pretty good but somewhat bloated, as is typical of King.
I enjoyed the dog encountering a cat, “May I help you?” 
I’ll add Robert Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer.