Time Travel discussion

There were discussion threads for 2014 and 2015 member introductions, but none yet for this year, so I thought I would start one.

Hello, fellow time travel enthusiasts! My name is Craig Richardson and I've been a fan of time travel books, movies, TV and comics for more than three decades. I'm currently reading Ancient Shores, which means I'll be following up with Thunderbird before too long. So far I've been greatly enjoying it. Ancient cultures are another favorite topic of mine.

I've also recently started a time travel blog at http://timetravelnexus.com. I'm hoping to find about a dozen people or so to contribute to it periodically, with topics covering news and reviews of time travel stories in any medium, other blogs and podcasts on the subject, as well as real world science related to the subject of time travel. If you think you might be interested in contributing to the blog or if you are an author/creator/blogger/podcaster who would like to spread the word about your time travel project, please contact me.

You can also find me on Twitter at @timetravelnexus, where I'll be doing my best to funnel and pass along any time travel related news that I come across. The only tweets I send are squarely focused on the topic of time travel, so if you're interested in seeing what I send out, track me down there.

I'm excited to see what the Goodreads time travel group has to offer. I don't typically get involved in discussion groups, but I couldn't resist the subject matter. I look forward to getting to know some of you!

Thanks Craig for starting a 2016 Member Introduction thread...Welcome Welcome!

Hi Craig and everyone else in the group of course. I have always loved time travel stories since I was a child so naturally my first novel had to be in this genre. As a child my favourite tale was Charlotte Sometimes and now, well, it has to be Barbara Erskine.
My own novel is based in Ibiza, where I'm lucky enough to live, and is a time slip between the present day and the 1960's, very different under the rule of Franco. You can find it here and I'm looking forward to finding new reads and meeting authors and readers alike. The Red House: Twilight's Edge

Welcome Jennifer,

I look forward to your insight related to the genre in the group.

Have a good Yesterday!

Lincoln wrote: "Welcome Jennifer,

I look forward to your insight related to the genre in the group.

Have a good Yesterday!"

Thank you Lincoln, you too!

Hi Everyone,

I'm a long time Dr. Who fan. (I have a controversial choice of favorite Doctor -- 7th). Anyone here wishing Inspector Spacetime from Community would become an actual spinoff?

Getting ready to release my debut novel with time travel to a non-western-european bronze age.

Lots of cool people here. Can't wait to meet some of you.

-m
http://micahjoel.info

Hi everyone, I'm on a time-travel binge with my reading at the moment.

I'm a fan of 11/22/63, The Time Traveller's Wife, the Outlander series.

Not so impressed with Time After Time, by Ben Elton, but it had an interesting conundrum at the end.

I've actually just finished The Time Traveller's Wife again (after reading it first time several years ago). I'm suffering that sense of loss and longing you get after a good book has ended. I've heard that Audrey Niffeleger has written a sequel short story to The Time Traveller's Wife. Anyone know if it's actually been published??

Sandra

Welcome Micah and Sandra...

Sandra if you recently joined you might be our 2000th member...I am not sure who keeps track of such things but I just noticed our member number is 2000.

So Welcome to the both of you and I hope you enjoy being here.

as far as Audrey Niffeleger I have no idea, sorry.

Sandra wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm on a time-travel binge with my reading at the moment.

I'm a fan of 11/22/63, The Time Traveller's Wife, the Outlander series.

Not so impressed with Time After Time, by Ben Elto..."

The author's name is actually Audrey Niffenegger. If you type it into Goodreads you'll see all her work! I also found a discussion on Goodreads called SEQUEL in August 2014, but whether the sequel is now finished and what it's called, I can't discover. Hope this helps :)

Although the sequel she announced a couple of years ago isn't projected to be released until 2018, apparently the first 25 pages are currently available with the purchase of the ebook version of the original novel. Maybe this is the "short story" that you heard about?

Craig wrote: "Although the sequel she announced a couple of years ago isn't projected to be released until 2018, apparently the first 25 pages are currently available with the purchase of the ebook version of th..."

Thanks Craig, yes I saw that note on Goodreads, and as it was around 2014 I thought I'd somehow missed it. Ah well, as I can't actually time travel I guess I'll take the slow road and wait for the next one. I couldn't bear to read just 25 pages and then wait 2 years.

Hi everyone. Just found this group and thought it perfect to indulge in one of my favorite genres. I've been reading time travel stories for 30+ years and just can't seem to get enough. There are so many good stories out there it is hard to choose what to read next, so I'm hoping to get some direction here.

Welcome to all of our new members! So happy to have you in the group. Just as a reminder, this thread is for new members to introduce themselves and their work. This is one of the places we encourage NEW members to share about their novels. However, this is not the place for existing members to try to market their books to new members. If you write on this thread plugging your own work and are not introducing yourself to the group for the first time, your post will be removed. Thanks to everyone for being respectful of this rule.

BUCKYBALL: second editionTop of your day everyone!!!

My name is Fabien Roy, and I am a stay at home father of 3 working as a part-time substitute teacher. I wrote a time travelling novel. The novel doesn`t actually travel in time although there is some possibility there for a future novel. My novel is entitled BUCKYBALL, and it is the story of James Pesola`s confession to his psychologist.

James Pesola tells the story of how he and a group of individuals acquired the ability to travel in time after consuming an experimental drug called Buckyball.

My ultimate goal joining this group was to promote my novel, but I have found a camaraderie in the various comments and subjects I have read here, although I have not commented. I`ve discovered A Tale of Time City by this group but can`t seem to find the time to read.

I`m happy to be here, and I hope I can convince some of you to read my novel. For those of you who read this, you can acquire a free copy of my novel in exchange for a review by emailing me at [email protected] or sending me a message on Goodreads.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A...

I wish you a great moment a few hours after you`ve read this.

Sincerely, Fabien Roy

The Grand Dissolute
Joel Van Valin here. My time travel novel The Grand Dissolute was published by 5 Prince books last fall, and I've been reading up on time travel literature as I write a sequel. Craig Richardson and Paul Wandason over at timetravelnexus.com both have great things to say about this group so I thought I'd stop by. Wonderful to meet you all!

Top of your day Joel Van Valin. Welcome to the club!!! I just joined a few days ago and I too am a Paul Wandason fan!!!

Hi y'all. I'm Cori. I love science fiction and fantasy and the idea of time travel fascinates me. Is it truly possible or only within the confines of a book? I am currently writing a book that involves time travel. It is so exciting to explore the topic whether reading about the theories, in books or in writing a time travel adventure.

The novel I'm editing now is my first and I am learning so much along the way. I'm hoping to learn about time travel possibilities, theories, what's been done in the past, etc.

Looking forward to timely discussions!

Hello new people.
I'm not sure if I ever made an introduction post, if I did it was so long ago no one would remember anyway. Plus it is a new year so there is that.

I'm Kirk aka CaptKirk42. I've been a sci-fi nut all my life and Time-Travel stories are some of the most interesting sci-fi out there next to the space operas with scary green monsters. I am fairly certain growing up in the 70s during the Apollo era helped nurture my spaced-out interests. I'm more Star Trek than Star Wars even though in college my radio DJ name was "Ewok". Also a very big Doctor Who fan beginning in early 1981 thanks to the local DC and Baltimore PBS stations at the time. Micah the 7th Doctor is one of my faves as well "Controversial?" Dark and mysterious I would say. Liking the NuWho but prefer some of the classic bits. Also a big Stargate fan.

As one can see by the quotes I have here Douglas Adams is a fave author of mine. It is all the fiddlybits and the real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri that do it for me.

Besides time travel stories I really enjoy parallel universe stories, especially when they happen within one of my favorite story/show franchises. Seeing your favorite characters with totally different personalities or environments the fandom is used to.

Greetings fellow temporalians.

I am totally new to Goodreads and this group and am hoping to learn and share with you about all things time travel.

I'm a big sci-fi fan, thinker and daydreamer too. This is probably why I like the comedian Steven Wright so much: "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met."

For information, I too am writing a novel. I have posted most of chapter one of 'From the Path' in the creative writing section of GR. There's more of chapter one on my website. Both of which I think you can navigate to from my GR profile if you are so inclined.

Glad to be a part of the community.

Hello, Group. My name is Landis. I am age 60 and live in rural California. I have been hooked on the time-travel genre since age 16 when I read Jack Finney. My most recent read in this genre is-- of course!-- "11-22-63"; author needs no introduction.

Hi Everyone,

I believe I am remiss in not introducing myself before. A family emergency came up just as the book was launched so I'm getting back into the swing of things.

Anyway, I'm Alan Trock, an attorney in Southern California. I enjoy reading history books from the colonial times up to the 1800's. My main interest is books on Abraham Lincoln. My wife was always telling me with each Lincoln book I bought that he "dies at the end." It is along this line that I finally sat down and wrote my first novel, 36 Hours to Save the President. It follows time traveler Alex Linwood as he is transported back to April 1865 and given the chance to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Maybe I can prove my wife wrong - and maybe I can't.

I am very new to all of the many websites around for promoting the book and so this is my way of introducing myself and the book to you all (and I'm keenly aware of the rules for authors which I will do my utmost to follow).

However, if you are interested in reading the book, it will be part of a Goodreads give-away starting on the 20th and running for two weeks so I hope you'll enter.

I am also on Facebook under the publishing title: Gravel Path Publishing and on Twitter: @LincolnNovel

Welcome back new members.

Finn: I like Steven Wright also. My favorite bit of his is he talks about how he came home late one night and tried to open his house with his car keys, started up his house and drove it around.

Thanks for alerting us to your new book, Alan. We have added it to our time travel book list at http://TimeTravelNexus.com/db-books/.

As I write this message, our book list only has about 450 entries, but we are slowly building it every day. Our grandiose goal is to list every time travel book and short story ever written. While we may never attain that goal, we want to at least make sure that any newer writers are included so that time travel fans have one more way to find out about their work.

For any other writers on his forum, please check it out to make sure we have included your books and stories. If you know of books we need to add, there is a form on the site for submitting the data needed to create an entry. Also, tell all your readers and friends - the more people that use it, the greater the chance that someone will discover your book!

Alan wrote: "Hi Everyone,

I believe I am remiss in not introducing myself before. A family emergency came up just as the book was launched so I'm getting back into the swing of things.

Anyway, I'm Alan Trock,..."

Hi, all
I just found this group today and I already wish I could step back in time to its beginning. Time travel is my favorite scifi genre and has been since the first time I read it. I'm going to try to get A Wrinkle in Time reread in the next week and I've already got Poul Anderson on my tablet.

Hi all, I just recently discovered groups on goodreads - I know, right? What was I doing?! - and of course I just had to join a time travel group immediately. I have a little bit of an obsession. I also like science fiction, mystery, and books with psychological elements.

I'm always open to interaction on goodreads and I'm really excited to discuss time travel books, or any book in general!

Welcome back new members.

"You've Come to the Right Place".

Welcome, Ashley!

I'm a bit late, if 'late' has any meaning on a time travel forum, introducing myself as I've already added the odd post. Spent my childhood on the east coast of England where it was common for Stone Age flints to surface in ploughed fields or fragments of pottery from the age of the Beaker people to wash up in a stream, so yesterday seemed just a field or two away.

Sadly my hopes of slipping into a temporal journey never happened. There were a few promising but unsuccessful attempts. Once when a book I had been after for ages arrived in the post from Amazon, and when I checked I found I hadn't ordered it, I had a brief hope. Deciding it may have arrived in a reversed cause and effect temporal blip I decided to order it, therefore proving a time dislocation. Sadly another copy arrived followed shortly after that by a call from my sister asking if I had received the first copy that she had bought for me and had Amazon redirect to my address.

I seem to have a generic face that convinces people they've met me before. I used to reply that we probably had but as I didn't recognise them our times streams must be out of sync. I stopped saying this as it did my reputation no good.

I was convinced that I knew Glasgow though I had never visited. When I did have to make a trip to the city I left the station, refused a taxi, convinced I could find my way to the hotel by using this inner knowledge. Sadly it became obvious that I had no idea where I was and ended up in a rather disreputable area where a gentleman, though I believe the colloquial term might be mugger, insisted on a financial arrangement that seemed to have no benefit on my behalf. There was a brief hope that there might be something unusual about this encounter as he kept calling me Jimmy which is not my name. However, I later discovered that a lot of people were addressed as Jimmy and I gathered it wasn't their name either.

So I live in hope and in the meantime console myself by watching old episodes of the Time Tunnel and reading anything time wise based.

<a href="grin"> Thank you for the clever, entertaining, and well-written post.</a>

Landis wrote: " Thank you for the clever, entertaining, and well-written post."

Thanks, Landis!

Ian wrote: "I'm a bit late, if 'late' has any meaning on a time travel forum, introducing myself as I've already added the odd post. Spent my childhood on the east coast of England where it was common for Ston..."

Awesome, really enjoyed that ;)

Ashley wrote: "Landis wrote: " Thank you for the clever, entertaining, and well-written post."

Thanks, Landis!"

You are welcome!

I forgot to mention another disappointing misrepresentation of what might have been messages from the future that happened when I shared with two lads at university.

Mid winter term we began to have electrical problems of an unusual nature in the student house we rented. Table lamps in several of the rooms began to flicker or turn off and on without effecting the main room light. I became convinced that we were intercepting a message from the future, which seemed a logical deduction at the time, and it must be in Morse. In retrospect this might be considered rather illogical of course, after all Morse was already a discontinued system. I also discovered that trying to decide whether a light flash is a dot or a dash is very difficult.

Ten pages of written down dots and dashes and two weeks of evenings sat around a flashing lamp can have an effect on the mind... Even of students. Pressure on me from the two other lads to decipher this data probably lead me to make a rather disquieting translation. It is said that if you put an unlimited number of monkeys in a room with unlimited typewriters eventually one will write a Shakespeare play. Thus out of all the pages of dots and dashes I found what could be misspellings of all our names and the word 'decapitated'. Well this was clear, it meant one of us in the future would try to warn the other two that some madman was going to break in during a night with an axe to the unhealthy demise of one or more of us. On the positive side at least one of us must survive to send the message.

A number of sleepless nights followed for us before the landlord sent an electrician around to fix the faulty wiring he had forgotten to inform us about in the wall plug system.

I've always felt a disappointment for the outcome of this adventure and my house mates unreasonable reaction to a month of unnecessary fear and trepidation. After all, as I pointed out later from behind the locked door of my room as they made unnecessary attempts to test the resistance of the wood, at least they didn't have to worry any longer on having their heads forcibly misplaced from their bodies.

Hi. Long-time lurker here, thanks for the heads up on some great books! My favorite time travel books so far are The House on the Strand and Why Have the Birds Stopped Singing? (YA).

Hi my name is Sam. I have been a long time time travel fan in all mediums. Just read 11/22/63, LOVED it. I'm a huge Stephen King fan as well, so I was in 7th heaven here. I have been adding all the books I can find on the lists on this app that relate to time travel. I would love any personal feedback and favorites. I can't seem to get enough time travel stories. My son, who is 9, has made it his mission to make a time machine that works. Lol. I know that more than likely this is a child's dream but the possibility of it is so exciting. Anyhow, I would love responses and recommendations. Thank you

Hi Sam,
I only get on here sporadically, so perhaps this book has been mentioned already. My favorite time travel book is Time and Again. It's very well known so you probably have read it. But just in case.....
My husband just read Look Who's Back.
My first novel has been considered time travel by some, and time-bending by others. I Call Myself Earth Girl is the title, in case you are interested.
There's also a list on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Not sure about the quality of this list, but it did remind me about Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.

Happy reading!
Jan

Hi, my name is Ben Waterford.

I’ve just joined as member number 2100 if anyone was counting. I am a new author from Australia. I have published two eBooks to most major online publishers this year. I started writing at age 52 (never too late to start) and just turned 60. I too love the Time Travel concept and I think my interest started during my youth when I read the classics from authors like HG Wells and CS Lewis among others.

My first book titled ‘10 Past 4’ is Time Travel based and was written for a YA (Young Adult) audience, but my older beta readers have equally enjoyed it, so I now aim for 13 and older. I hope to start on a second book in the series next year. I have named the series as ‘The Time Followers’.

My second book (but first to be actually published) is called ‘Lost in the Dreamtime’ which is more a Sci-Fi adventure (with just a touch of Alien Time Travel) based in the remote region of Western Australia.

I’ve enjoyed reading through a lot of the posts on this group and look forward to gaining some helpful advice from both Authors and Readers, many who are much more read on this subject than me. Please be aware that my books are written with UK/Australia spelling and some words differ to the US spellings.

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...

I see Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes is on deck. I read it as a teen and will have to scare up a copy for his group.

I just finished 11-23-63 - which is the only Stephen King novel I've read since The Shining about the same time that Kubrick's movie treatment came out.

Perhaps my favorite "time travel" novel is Heinlein' Time Enough for Love, which was 70/30 - last 30% time travel back from 4100AD to WWI.

Second Favorite was in this group - Grimwood's Replay which I'm 90% sure was inspired by Back to the Future.

I look forward to chatting with you all.

What follows may be a spoiler.

Re, choosing next month's book: "D*mn it! You went and did it! D*mn you all! D*mn you all to h*ll!"

But I guess I'll read it anyway.

I think that along with Pierre Boulles' La Planète des Singes we should read Rod Serlings' screen adaptation. I think some of the best dialogue is in the film and Serlings interpretation is more imaginative.

Now I think of it... Where's the time travel element in the original book of Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes?

Ian, to answer your question, I don't think this is a spoiler:

If memory serves...he's an astronaut who (accidentally?) travels somewhere at light speed and according to relativity when he returns to earth he's only a little older but centuries have passed on earth.

I think.

Good point. Yes, that's time travel isn't it.

(It's very disconcerting seeing an ape on horse back. That was a clever silhouette on the posters.)

Not sure if I've read the right translation as the book was Pierre Boulle but 'Monkey Planet'. Different translations can totally alter a book. I've got several of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and they all read quite differently.

(Sorry if this is slightly off track of the forum subject.)

Hi Thomas,
I don' know if you will like it, but I think you would find I Call Myself Earth Girl interesting. It is a twist on time travel. I wrote it, so of course, I think it is good. Not saying you will, but thought I would throw it out there. You can check out reviews on Goodreads and more reviews on Amazon.
Having said all that, Time and Again, Jack Finney; AWrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engel; The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov; The Door into Summer, Robert Heinlein.
Happy reading, Thomas and welcome to the group!
Jan

Hello. My name is John Birmingham but I'm happy to be known as JB. Saves all that unnecessary typing.
I'm a long time fan of time travel books and an little bit surprised and ashamed to discover this group existed for so long before I found it. If I had a TARDIS...
Unfortunately I don't... but I do have lots of love for any story that messes with the time space continuum.

Top of your day JB. Welcome to the club!!!

Hi JB! Welcome!

Hey, all you Time Travel teamers! My name is Brian Meehl and I've been a big-time travel wonk for years but have taken this long to discover your group as I've been lost in my favorite slices of the past. I'm a YA/NA author immersed in a time travel trilogy for a few years now. Regardless, I'm looking forward to some fun and enlightening engagement with like-minded bibliophiles who don't believe in synchronized watches.