19 years since I made the OP. I have found some really good time travel novels. Invisibility…not so much.
Peter Clines - Paradox Bound
Douglas Richards - Split Second
Neal Pollack - Repeat
David Pennington - Peer Through Time
Edward Miller - Kronos Interference
Stephen King - 11/23/63
A 2nd here to the Willis time travel books. Amazing stuff.
Disagree. The whole hook of the story is the time travel experiments that mostly fail, and that he is remembered and honoured for the wrong thing. Hardly incidental.
Sure it is. It is restricted to images rather than solid objects, but the images travel through time.
Anyway, I don’t understand your objection. By your standards there are few stories that are “about” time travel at all.
The “Chronicles of St Mary’s” series by Jodi Taylor, beginning with Just One Damned Thing After Another, is a wonderful series about a bunch of historians going back in time to observe historical events—and always, always getting into trouble. (But don’t call it “time travel”; they hate that. They “investigate major historical events in contemporary time.”)
Absolutely hilarious series, and surprisingly well-researched.
@Peter_Morris, by that standard, the song “Killkelly, Ireland” is about time travel, since the letters traveled through time. You’re not really getting into time travel unless you have causality going the wrong way. Which does in fact happen in a great many stories, far more than there are stories without objects going from the past to the future.
ANYthing by Jack Finney. I was in on planning a short story party, where we got a fire going, served hot cider and mulled wine, and took turns reading our favorites to the group by candlelight.
One of the stories was “The Third Level”.… you guessed it, a time travel story by Jack Finney. And still my absolute favorite. I found it in an anthology, and was so excited to find his other works a decade later.
I checked, it’s part of About Time : 12 Short Stories … all by Finney. (Which I’m ordering today, now that I know about it. The Amazon reviews tease enough about the other stories that they sound intriguing)
Oh, and another vote for Time and Again by Finney, but this time in audiobook form. It’s narrated in a dry, very matter-of-fact manner, with just enough emotion to feel what Si Morley (the protagonist) is.
Oh, just found this: The 50th anniversary edition of Time and Again, the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch.
And there’s also a sequel, From Time to Time.