Fiction (of any genre) where the plot involves time travel
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Oct 08, 2008 09:45PM
Why isnt Time and Again #1???!!!!?!?!
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Because very new books always do best in polls like these. Anyway, I'd think the grandaddy, and still the most visionary of time travel novels, "The Time Machine", ought to be #1.
People read the most current work and have forgotten or have never heard of the earlier works. Muzzlehatch is absolutely right about polls like these, but I vote for Time and Again. Definitely a classic.
I like books about yesterday or today In general I do not like books about tomorroW. I did like Stranger in a Strange Land and Brave New World and 1984 when that was future Maryanne
Nice to see people will be reading books they may not be familiar with. There really WAS stuff written before 1980Love & blessings
Richard
What's "Island of the Blue Dolphins" doing at #47 with five votes? There's no time travel in it. Just because it takes place two hundred years ago doesn't make it a time travel book.
Terri wrote: "Now I have a lot more books I need to read. LOL"Yes, but now, you have plenty of time.
Curious Incident... don't remember time travel...
I think the person who posted Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime was confusing that book with To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. That is a wonderful, funny time travel book!
I think the person who posted Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime was confusing that book with To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. That is a wonderful, funny time travel book!
Hayes wrote: "Curious Incident... don't remember time travel..."
Not about time travel! I was surprised to see it too. Its about autism and very good.
Not about time travel! I was surprised to see it too. Its about autism and very good.
Green Darkness is about reincarnation not time travael if I rmember right.
Ugh! Clicking Jody's link above (message 17) automatically makes you join the group.To un-join, there's an "edit membership" link in the right half of the screen.
The description and reviews of "The Aventurion" don't imply anything about time travel. Is M.R.'s post just deceptive advertising?
I read a book when I was a kid and don't know the name. Maybe someone could help me. The book was about a girl who learned how to "turn a corner" in a certain way and ended up in another "dimension of time". In one dimension JFK was killed in 1963 and in another dimension he lived to an old age and played with his many grandchildren. Needless to say, the book was published in the '60s, after '63. The book is not appropriate to this group, but I'm thinking some of you may have read it and know what it is.
Kristin Hannah's earlier books were re-incarnation romances,and I just loved them. Her humor was excellent. Some of the Titles were The Enchanchment,Once in Every Lifetime and Waiting Down the Moon. The one I particulary enjoyed was a young blind researcher who chooses from an " after-life video selection " of men she needs to love and rescue. The line that really cracked me up was the young researcher's question: " What is this, Dating for the Dead?"
Sadly, I've only read 3 of the books on this list, so those are the ones I voted for. I can't think of any other books I've read that have dealt with time travel that aren't on this list in order to add any. But I've always found time travel an interesting subject, and I've attempted to write several short stories using various time travel concepts. It just seems hard to accomplish without leaving huge holes in the plot.
Well this list certainly seems comprehensive, I'll use it as a reference! Thank you!But it is not definitive. There are 7 time travel books I have read and enjoyed immensely that are not on the lis. All of these are in my top 10 favourite TT books. But glad to see my all time favourite is on this awesome mega list which is Tom's Midnight Garden.
Destined
Disconnected
Johnny and the Bomb
TimeRiders
Moondial
The Time Hunters
The Children of Green KnoweEdit: Apologies, I didnt realise we can add to the list so I shall add them now :) Edit 2: Not sure how this voting works, are we allowed to vote more than 1 book then? As I see the only way to add books is to vote them in. Do we vote for all our favourites?
The Sparrow is an absolutely stunning book, but I do not recall any time travel in it. There is interstellar space travel, and the tale is told in flashbacks, but there isn't any time travel.
Great list, I found some interesting time travel books through it (I love the theme of time travel)! However, much as I love Anne Fortier's Juliet I don't know why it's on this list, there's no time travel involved in the story, just historical chapters (book #339)
I don't recall any Time Travel in Meyer's The Host, or KMM's To Tame A Highland WarriorAnd KMM's The Immortal Highlander doesn't have time travel per se, it's more he's immortal. But with the amount of votes up maybe that isn't a big deal?
I read a time travel book, possibly written in the 70's or 80's where a man in a highrise office in NY, would look out a window, and when he saw it snowing, was transported to the early 1900's. He would be in NY in Teddy Roosevelt's time. Had a current day girlfriend who was a pschycologist. He was hunted by something from the past. I would love to know the name of the book. Read it about 15 years ago
Jude wrote: "I read a time travel book, possibly written in the 70's or 80's where a man in a highrise office in NY, would look out a window, and when he saw it snowing, was transported to the early 1900's. He ..."That sounds something like Time and Again, by Jack Finney.
You're free to add it, if you like. At the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."I would assume there isn't Dr. Who on there because no one else added it.
thirty plus years since i've tried to read "man in the high castle" alternate history, isn't it? time travel of a sort.
i'm guessing the person who added it is older. i don't remember alternate history as a catagory when i started selling books in the 70s. through the 80s the main types of s.f.(Never sci-fi) were hard, opera, fantasy, newwave, tolkien, conan or tolkien/conan knock(rip)offs i.e terry brooks and gor.
Okay, so now I have even MORE books to read. Poor me, heh, heh. I love anything by Aasimov, Heinlein or Pohl. And even though I'm not much on romance, I enjoyed several of Gabaldon's Outlander books as well.
Last page: how are The Help and Jaws books about time travel? What about The Thornbirds? I am not removing them because it has been awhile since I read them, but I think they are more historical fiction than any kind of time travel.
There are a lot of non time travel books on this list, especially on the last page or two. It seems like a couple of voters were completely up a tree. I'm thinking it is time to start removing the most obvious of these - especially the ones in which the particular librarian is completely familiar.
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