# Time Travel Fiction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228 "2010-03-29T17:01:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228/141 "2013-03-20T17:21:43Z")
> [@Seamack](#): > > Julian May’s Galactic Milieu cycle is a huge favourite of mine. It’s got future, past, 6 million years in the past and eventually beings from 6 million years in the past going to the near future. It’s a time travel fantasy saga with elements of sci-fi too. Yeah, I really enjoyed her _Saga of Pliocene Exile_. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228/142 "2013-03-20T22:29:41Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I vaguely remember reading this thread previously; it mentions quite a few favorites. > > Fritz Leiber’s _The Big Time_ is his first Change War story. What if mysterious powers called Snakes & Spiders are fighting a war through all space & time–& enlisting humans (& aliens) to do the fighting? _No Great Magic_ is another story in that setting–which I read on its first publication in _Galaxy_. Both available [here](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25421). “No Great Magic” is a great story - in the 1980s I bought a collection of Leiber’s “Change War” short stories (everything but “The Big Time”). Another good one was “Try and Change the Past” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228/143 "2013-03-22T03:09:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Be aware that this is the second resurrection of a zombie. So it’s time traveling? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228/144 "2013-03-22T03:53:34Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > So it’s time traveling? By its bootstraps. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228/145 "2013-03-22T03:57:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Be aware that this is the second resurrection of a zombie. > > Still interesting discussion though. Actually \*\*silenus \*\* this post of yours is the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228/146 "2013-03-22T12:49:38Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > So it’s time traveling? I like to think of it as a timeless thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228/147 "2013-03-23T02:46:54Z")
> [@Deegeea](#): > > Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd - kids visit the past in an elevator There’s a sequel, _All in Good Time_. > [@Morgyn](#): > > Andre Norton had a couple of books dealing with time travel, but I’m not at home so I can’t look at the titles. _Time Traders_, maybe? They were definitely of the “one way trip back in time radically changes the future” variety. _The Time Traders_ (written in 1958), _Galactic Derelict_ (1959), _The Defiant Agents_ (1962) and _Key out of Time_ (1963). (They’re available from Baen in two volumes, _Time Traders_ and _Time Traders II_.) It’s not a one-way trip - there’s quite a bit of travel back and forth. There were three sequels written much later, with co-authors, but I didn’t like them nearly as much. Nobody’s mentioned _Napoleon Disentimed_, by Hayford Peirce, yet. It combines time travel with crosstime (alternate history) travel, with (IMHO) hilarious results. And there’s the “Agent of TERRA” series - [four books](http://randall120.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/forgotten-books-agent-of-terra-series-larry-maddock/) by Larry Maddock, beginning with _The Flying Saucer Gambit_ (which apparently was originally written as a Man from UNCLE story, then revised into a time-travelling-secret-agents tale). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-fiction/534228.md?page=7)