Time Travel Fiction

[Dendarii_Dame]

@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.

[Andy_L]

@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.

“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”

[Siam_Sam]

@silenus

Be aware that this is the second resurrection of a zombie.

So it’s time traveling?

[AncientHumanoid]

@Siam_Sam

So it’s time traveling?

By its bootstraps.

[Zebra]

@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.

[Gagundathar]

@Siam_Sam

So it’s time traveling?

I like to think of it as a timeless thread.

[SCAdian]

@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 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).