lightning is a good choice.
I’d nominate Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love. I mean, you didn’t specify which direction they had to travel in…
How about David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself?
And the two Heinlein stories mentioned are among the best, but they are both short stories.
I actually meant to say Time For The Stars, not Time Enough For Love.
Good book! Keep an eye out for the scene where the guy gets really board with the food of the time. He comes up with a creative solution.
I second the votes for Connie Willis’ The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog – also the 1st story about the Oxford time travelers, Time Watch, to be found in the collection Time Watch & other Stories.
Re Heinlein, I think “All you Zombies” was a short story, but I remember “By his Bootstraps” as being longer. It might have been a novelette.
How about Kage Baker’s books?
And “Timescape”. Can’t remember who wrote it.
I"m just glad I mentioned Connecticut Yankee in a straight dope thread… I can die happy now!
Sir Boss jousting with a colt peacemaker in his hand… CLASSIC!
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I picked up one of the later ones, I think it was 7, anyway, it involved the Colosseus of Rhodes and Jules Verne and I wasn’t impressed. It seemed a little “cutesy” to me and just didn’t have the biting edge that the first one had.
Readers who like Finney, Willis or Gabaldon would perhaps enjoy
Time Out of Mind by John Maxim.
It is a combination thriller, romance and ghost story, with, of course, plenty of time travel–19th century New York City.
Make that a third very strong recommendation. Outlander is NOT your typical romance novel. In fact, although there is a “love story” in it, it should not be classified in romance. It’s Historical Fiction. And damned good fiction at that. Outlander is my favourite book ever and I read it at least once a year.
The first two are set in Scotland and France during the time of the second Jacobite uprising. The third, let’s just say deals with aftermath. The forth and fifth (and eventually 6th and 7th) will be dealing with the American Revolution.
Stop whatever you’re doing and go NOW and buy Outlander. Then e-mail me (mauvaise3@cox.net) after you’ve finished and thank me 
I’ve always liked Andre Norton’s time travel books, her “Time Traders” series (The Time Traders, Galactic Derelict, The Defiant Agents and Key Out of Time) as well as the unrelated Operation: Time Search.
I’ll also second Simon Hawke’s Time Wars series; not deep but good fun anyway.
I’ll also mention The End of Eternity by Asimov and The Fall of Chronopolis by Barrington J. Bailey.
Bah, you folks speak ill of romance novels.
For those of you not afraid of shlock: **A Knight in Shining Armour ** by Jude Devereaux.
Michael Crichton’s **Time Line ** I found very good. (But, then again, I primarily read romance, so I was raising my standards that day…)
I read the first Outlander and didn’t like it very much. It really was a romance novel, and I don’t like romance novels.
I read a short story when I was a child that was written by Michael Moorcock, I think. It was about a guy who went back in time to find Jesus Christ and upon finding Joseph and Mary, he found Jesus’ other siblings and a retarded boy. The story then details how the traveller inadvertantly assumes the role of Christ and eventually becomes crucified.
I seem to recall that it was a very clever and well-constructed story (though I read it more than 15 years ago).
Does anyone know of the story I am referring to?
Where the hell are the Poul Anderson fans? Try his novels “The Corridors of Time” and “There Will be Time.” They’re much better, IMO, than his Time Patrol series
Robert Silverberg wrote an excellent novella, “Hawksbill Station,” about a penal camp in the Cambrian. It was expanded into a novel, but I haven’t read that novel.
It’s only a novelette, but I highly recommend Peter Phillips’ “Manna,” which is in Silverberg’s collection Trips in Time
I agree with Meacham about de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall and “A Gun for Dinosaur.” Wonderful stories, both.
Also agree with Baker about “He Walked Around the Horses.” Beautifully written and well-researched.
A.E. van Vogt’s The Weapon Shops of Isher does have time travel as a minor element. And, as Anthony Boucher wrote, it has the best ending line in science fiction.
Leo Frankowski wrote a series of books starting with “The CrossTime Engineer”. I think there’s about 6 of em all told. Kinda cheesy and “overly male” (I don’t want to say misogynistic 'cos I think that’s a bit strong) but a fun read all the same.
Fella gets transported back to medieval poland, and ends up creating an empire for himself based on his wits and technical savvy. Interesting digressions on shared property, the capitalist model, use of base-12 arithmetic, industrial chemistry etc.
Anybody else familiar with these?
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I can’t believe I didn’t think to mention * The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich*, also by Fritz Leiber. I just read it a few weeks ago.
It was written quite a few years back but only published in 1997. One of the blurbs on the jacket mentions both H.G. Wells and Lovecraft - and it’s right! Great stuff!
This is a really good book, one of Koontz’s better books, IMHO.
(Koontz can be all over the map in terms of quality)
I figured out he was a time traveler, but was blown away by where he was traveling from.
Here’s another one for you…
“The Last Starship From Earth” by John Boyd.
In an semi-Orwellian present a student falls in love with a forbidden woman who turns out to be from an exile planet. He goes back in time to prevent his present and rescues Jesus. He ends up being the Wandering Jew.
Bradbury had a nice short story called “The Toynbee Convector”, in which an inventor created a machine that took him about 100 years into the future, from which he brought back proof that Earth had become a paradise and everyone lived in peace and harmony. The story is set at this future point where the Utopians are waiting to greet his arrival.
They discover that his time machine and all his ‘evidence’ was fake, and he had never travelled into the future at all. He made up everything in an attempt to inspire mankind to pull itself out of its rut and cure all its problems. It succeeded because people, believing taht his trip to the future had been real, no longer had any fear that they would fail.
Johnny B. Goode: That’d be Behold The Man. I remember it was an interesting book, but I last read it years ago, now.
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I wanted to add: The version I have (someplace around here) was published as a novel, though it was awfully short, if memory serves.
He also wrote a short story, Elric at the End of Time in which he poked fun at his character, in a collection of short stories published under the same name.
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Also in the same collection, he wrote another story that completely eviscerated his own Eternal Champion-type stories (in general, though mostly it was a lampoon of Corum) with a whiney, doom-laden main character who was composed almost entirely of the grafted on body parts of demi-gods and demons. Worth reading, if you’re at all a fan of the genre.
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