SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Please help with suggestions for good books about time travel.

Thanks!

JP

Time machine

First, thank you both for your quick replies to my post. I, however, should have been more precise in stating my question about what I was asking of everyone.

So, here goes: I would like suggestions for a moder-day, time-travel story. For instance, I read one called Time Cursor, by John David Krygelski.

Anything similar out there? I'm not asking for the same storyline, but a contemporary one.

Again, thank you for the two suggestions, gents!

Regards,

JP

A went on a time-travel reading stint a few years back. The best book from that group was Replay by Ken Grimwood. It was first published in the 80s, so I'm not sure it's contemporary enough for you, but it really is one of my favorites.

For some more recent ones, there's The Accidental Time Machine from 2007, Time Travelers Never Die from 2009, and The Guns of the South from 1992 (I thought it was more recent).

The Time Traveler's Wife is famous but only on my to-read list, so I can't say whether I like it yet.

Looking over at this list, I see a bunch of good examples, though only a few are contemporary. Still, you might want to check it out.

Hollow World came out earlier this year. It's a pretty good one.

Chris wrote: "Hollow World came out earlier this year. It's a pretty good one."

I bought this but haven't read it. It looks really good. It was also a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist.

If you're in the mood for comedy, I highly recommend The Time Machine Did It. It's very funny and well-written.

The popular Replay is the book of the month in the Time Travel group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/.... We discuss a variety of TT books there, everything from classics to books written by member-authors. Fun conversations and activities, too. And giveaways.

It's not that new 80s to 90s, but it is set in the modern (future) era.

The Saga of Pliocene Exile (or the Saga of the Exiles). Excellent series covering time travel, aliens, psychic powers, and politics. There is a second follow on series The Galactic Milieu Series based on what happened after the events of the first series.

Timeline by Michael Crichton is fun.

Michele wrote: "Timeline by Michael Crichton is fun."

Yes, I'd forgotten about that one.

Michele wrote: "Timeline by Michael Crichton is fun."

Loved this one.

Doomsday Book is also fantastic.

Thanks everyone! I will check out your other recommendations that you've made.

Some of book suggestions I've read, such as The Accidental Time Machine and Timeline--both excellent suggestions.

I'd like to suggest 11/22/63, by Stephen King.

I purchased 11/22/63 a while back as a Kindle daily deal, but I never seem to get around to it.

The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison is one of my personal favorites!

Just finished "How to survive in a science fictional universe"! That was great... Lots of fun and mind bending...! Nice family story as the foundation..

David wrote: "Just finished "How to survive in a science fictional universe"! That was great... Lots of fun and mind bending...! Nice family story as the foundation.."

I thought the book as too meta for its own good, and rather depressing. Not a fan of it.

The Forever War - Not time travel per se, but the implications of time dilation due to near light speed travel during a far flung galactic war. Haldeman's science fictional statement about his experiences in the Vietnam war and coming home.

The Time Machine - Naturally

The Accidental Time Machine - by Joe Haldeman as well.

All of Connie Willis' "Oxford Time Travel" books
https://www.goodreads.com/series/5298...

i enjoyed Morlock Night

The Proteus Operation a WW2 time travel adventure.
Paratime and Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, sideways time travel stories.
Time and Again and From Time to Time are more emotional than technical versions of time travel. Time and Again is better. Finney appears to have some other time related stories on his profile page.

Time and Again is the one I would recommend.

The popular All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness has time travel--back to the time of Christopher Wren and others, with the characters meeting them. Recommended.

John wrote: "Time and Again is the one I would recommend."

Me, too. In the sequel he throws overboard the whole mechanism of time travel that he developed in the first book, plus it's depressing. What I liked about book 1 in particular was the way he made NYC into a character. I usually don't care much for setting and description, but this story is a love story about a man and his city at a specific point in time.

I would pitch you, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency .

Described by Adams, as, "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic"

Then follow it up with the sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates is one of my favourites

The Eighth Guardian, Hourglass, and Tempest are three excellent young adult time travel books. There's also Timebound too!

I just reread Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. A great book that involves time travel.

I have a whole shelf of books under science fiction-time travel, with well over 100 books on it, but some of my favorites are:
Replay
Cretaceous Dawn
1632
Kindred
Anubis Gates
Timeline

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