# Time travel to the present book recommendations. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368 "2014-11-11T20:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/1 "2014-11-11T20:04:22Z")
I am interested in reading a book about time travel that is about a person or people traveling from the past to the present. Can someone recommend some books with this plot device? If there are any movies or TV shows with this kind of plot as well, I would be interested in knowing about those as well. My Google fu is weak, and when I tried a search, all I got was books about people from the present traveling to the past or the future, or maybe someone from the future traveling to the present or the past. Thank you for any suggestions! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/2 "2014-11-11T20:08:24Z")
TIME AFTER TIME, certainly. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/3 "2014-11-12T00:55:35Z")
_Lightning_ by Dean Koontz ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/4 "2014-11-12T01:14:02Z")
I wonder how long it’ll be before some smartass pedant points out that most novels involve someone traveling from the past to the present? I won’t do it, but the Dope is full of smartasses who will. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/5 "2014-11-12T01:21:49Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > TIME AFTER TIME, certainly. One of my favorites! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/6 "2014-11-12T01:42:53Z")
This is a powerful but sad film: [The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navigator:_A_Medieval_Odyssey) And here’s a tearjerker by Asimov: [The Ugly Little Boy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Little_Boy) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/7 "2014-11-12T23:32:29Z")
**ryan** beat me to _Lightning_ I see; that was my first thought. [The Apocalypse Troll](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apocalypse_Troll) by David Weber. It’s a recurring theme in Spider Robinson’s _Callahan’s Place_ stories, and in the [two sequels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindkiller#Sequel_stories) to Mindkiller. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/8 "2014-11-13T00:04:07Z")
Movie: [Kate and Leopold](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035423/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl) T.V. Show: [Sleepy Hollow](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647544/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/9 "2014-11-13T00:34:12Z")
> [@ryan](#): > > _Lightning_ by Dean Koontz Came to mention this one. Fun book. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/10 "2014-11-13T00:52:28Z")
**Warlock** and **Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time** ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/11 "2014-11-13T01:08:56Z")
There is me. I have traveled form 1946 to the present one day at a time. Been at my journey for 68 years and still enjoying it it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-to-the-present-book-recommendations/704368/12 "2014-11-13T01:26:57Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > There is me. I have traveled form 1946 to the present one day at a time. Been at my journey for 68 years and still enjoying it it. Did you see Post #4? 😉