Need recommendations for fictional time travel stories
01-04-06, 12:36 AM
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Need recommendations for fictional time travel stories
As the title says, any good ones out there? I saw "the time traveller's wife" in the store but it looks too romantic?
01-04-06, 01:23 PM
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Richard Matheson - Somewhere in Time
Though that might be too romantic for your taste.
How about Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five. While not really about time travel, it's protagonist has become "unstuck" in time.
Martin Amis - Time's Arrow - about a man who is living his live in reverse, growing younger each day.
Pete Hamill - Forver - about a man who lives forever as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan. Ranges from earliest colonial Manhattan up to shortly after 9/11
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine - this one's obvious
Michael Crichton - Timeline
As for non-fictional time travel "stories":
Paul Nahin - Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics and Science Fiction
This should help:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/lis...Fencoding=UTF8
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Though that might be too romantic for your taste.
How about Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five. While not really about time travel, it's protagonist has become "unstuck" in time.
Martin Amis - Time's Arrow - about a man who is living his live in reverse, growing younger each day.
Pete Hamill - Forver - about a man who lives forever as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan. Ranges from earliest colonial Manhattan up to shortly after 9/11
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine - this one's obvious
Michael Crichton - Timeline
As for non-fictional time travel "stories":
Paul Nahin - Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics and Science Fiction
This should help:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/lis...Fencoding=UTF8
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01-04-06, 03:57 PM
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Time Wars series by Simon Hawke, out of print but if you can find them pretty entertaining. (http://www.scn.org/~bk416/bshelf.html#TWbSH)
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Of the top of my head....
.... Howard Waldrop's "Them Bones" is a time-travel/alternate history that I've not read but have seen recommended.
[In a pre-Groundhog Day kind of way] I liked the late Ken Grimwood's "Recall".
[In a pre-Groundhog Day kind of way] I liked the late Ken Grimwood's "Recall".
01-07-06, 08:33 PM
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The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter is good. It's quasi-time-travel.
Some not mentioned yet--
Connie Willis--The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books (though probably too romantic)
It's been a long time since I read them, but I enjoyed "All You Zombies" by Robert Heinlein, and "Paycheck" and "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" by PKD.
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01-10-06, 01:14 PM
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My favorite book involving time travel (one of my favorite books ever actually) is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. She has other books in the same series, but this one is far and away the best. I suppose it might be too touchy-feely for you, but I think it's great.
Edit: OK, I missed the post two posts above mine somehow, but I still think it's great. In addition to "Say Nothing of the Dog" which I didn't like as much, and this one, Fire Watch is also in this series.
Edit: OK, I missed the post two posts above mine somehow, but I still think it's great. In addition to "Say Nothing of the Dog" which I didn't like as much, and this one, Fire Watch is also in this series.
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01-10-06, 05:40 PM
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I'll third the recommendation of "Doomsday Book". Really powerful and memorable stuff. My only problem with it was
I'd also like to recommend Tim Powers "The Anubis Gates". I also liked Gordon R. Dickson's "Time Storm", though I don't think its in print currently. I'm sure there's lots others, but that's all that comes to mind at the moment.
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I'd also like to recommend Tim Powers "The Anubis Gates". I also liked Gordon R. Dickson's "Time Storm", though I don't think its in print currently. I'm sure there's lots others, but that's all that comes to mind at the moment.
01-14-06, 06:04 PM
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Replay, by Ken Grimwood. A man dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. Over and over again.
01-14-06, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason
Replay, by Ken Grimwood. A man dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. Over and over again.
Let's see (top of my head)
Guardians of Time - Poul Anderson
The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov
Up the Line - Robert Silverburg
I deliberately picked these because they are probably hard to find these days, but definitely classic time travel stories.
I love time travel stories!
01-14-06, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by benedict
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[In a pre-Groundhog Day kind of way] I liked the late Ken Grimwood's "Recall".
[In a pre-Groundhog Day kind of way] I liked the late Ken Grimwood's "Recall".
Me too.... though, it's Replay.... but close enough.
01-15-06, 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Jason
Replay, by Ken Grimwood. A man dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. Over and over again.
Originally Posted by Jason
Replay, by Ken Grimwood. A man dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. Over and over again.
Originally Posted by Jason
Replay, by Ken Grimwood. A man dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. Over and over again.
Originally Posted by Jason
Replay, by Ken Grimwood. A man dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. Over and over again.
01-16-06, 10:31 AM
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http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/genres/timetravel.html
I've not read it, but I have seen good things written about "1632" by Eric Flint (mentioned in the first reply to this thread). I believe that there were several follow-ups; the first being "1633"!
Thematically similar - but you'll have to so your own research - is "Island in the Sea of Time" by S. M. Stirling. Looking through the Amazon reviews, its sequel was well-regarded but the third in the series was not.
Thematically similar - but you'll have to so your own research - is "Island in the Sea of Time" by S. M. Stirling. Looking through the Amazon reviews, its sequel was well-regarded but the third in the series was not.
01-16-06, 05:10 PM
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I'll throw in a recommendation for Dan Simmons' "Hyperion" cycle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion.
It's not completely about time travel as such, time travel plays an important part in much of the plot. (It's also an excellent science fiction series, and some of the best space opera ever written.)
It's not completely about time travel as such, time travel plays an important part in much of the plot. (It's also an excellent science fiction series, and some of the best space opera ever written.)
01-16-06, 05:54 PM
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Hyperion is fantastic (as is the Fall of Hyperion ... but they're basically one book), but I highly doubt it was what the OP had in mind.
As for the last two ... they're good, but they're not nearly of the caliber of the first two.
As for the last two ... they're good, but they're not nearly of the caliber of the first two.
01-17-06, 11:28 AM
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Up the Line - Robert Silverburg
01-18-06, 09:47 AM
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Short stories:
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed - Alfred Bester
Flight of the Unicorn (collection) - Larry Niven
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (collection) - Spider Robinson
Time Travellers Strictly Cash (collection) - Spider Robinson
Another vote for The Anubis Gates. When Mrs Danger read my copy, she couldn't go to bed until she was finished.
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed - Alfred Bester
Flight of the Unicorn (collection) - Larry Niven
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (collection) - Spider Robinson
Time Travellers Strictly Cash (collection) - Spider Robinson
Another vote for The Anubis Gates. When Mrs Danger read my copy, she couldn't go to bed until she was finished.
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