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Could anyone suggest a good time travel book?
Initial post:
28 Oct 2009 10:44 GMT
Auraya says:
I have recently become fascinated with the idea of time travel and have read a few books with that theme - Kindred by Octavia Butler, The Man Who Folded Himself and The Time Machine. I would appreciate any suggestions that people might have for other books that they have enjoyed. Thanks!
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28 Oct 2009 13:52 GMT
Dr. Dr. Simpson says:
I also like A door into summer - one of R Heinlein's best
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29 Oct 2009 10:47 GMT
Auraya says:
Thank you for those suggestions, I will definitely try them :o)
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29 Oct 2009 11:24 GMT
L. Bradshaw says:
If you want to expand into alternative history try Ward Moore-Bring the Jubilee and Moorcock-Behold the Man.
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29 Oct 2009 13:14 GMT
S. Meadmore says:
I really loved Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton - a better put together book is hard to find. Also British Summertime by Paul Cornell is among my favourites. You won't regret reading either of them I assure you.
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29 Oct 2009 16:15 GMT
Auraya says:
I have just read the summaries of the books suggested above and they all look intriguing. They have been added to my ever-increasing TBR list :o)
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29 Oct 2009 17:22 GMT
Laurence the Parrot says:
I'm still waiting for a book written in the future to be available now.
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29 Oct 2009 18:33 GMT
L. O. Shea says:
SM Stirling, Adrift in a sea of time. A brilliant read about the island of Nantucket sent back 3000 years and it's affect. 3 books in a series.
Another is the Destroyermen by Anderson (?).
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29 Oct 2009 19:14 GMT
GRIPER says:
Try "The Lincoln Hunters" by Wilson Tucker. In this case the time travellers are searching for Lincoln's famous "lost speech" from the 1850s.Unfortunately the hero gets to hear the lost speech but we,inevitably,do not get to know the contents.The lost speech remains lost
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29 Oct 2009 20:15 GMT
Ian Pugh says:
'Only Forward' by Michael Marshall Smith-sort of time travel/parallel universe tragi/comedy. Definately one of the most entertaining books I've ever read.
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29 Oct 2009 20:30 GMT
sjhigbee says:
Have you come across The Company novels by Kage Baker? There are 7 of them in the series, plus a book of short stories. It's around the premise that the Zeus Company produces a group of immortal employees, who travel through time, saving/harvesting items about to go extinct for wealthy clients in the 22nd century. But... what happens when those immortal beings get restive about their restrictive lives
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1 Nov 2009 07:16 GMT
Nick Ronson says:
The Heinlein story 'By his bootstraps' is one of the all time old classics to which many other, later stories, owe a debt.
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1 Nov 2009 07:17 GMT
Nick Ronson says:
The Heinlein story 'By his bootstraps' is one of the all time old classics to which many other, later stories, owe a debt.
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1 Nov 2009 17:36 GMT
P. J. LAWSON says:
yes! i have long found the theme of time travel quite fascinating. as gripper recommends, i read 'the lincoln hunters' a long time ago and its james stewart type hero still sticks in my mind. if you like the western and future tech combination, also try ' rebel in time' by harry harrison, about a murdering colonel who tries to alter the outcome of the american civil war with machine guns. maybe michael crichton's 'timeline' about french knights or philip jose farmer's 'time's last gift',- if you have a preference for the prehistoric.then there are also asimov's short stories on the subject to lighten your life. good reading!
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1 Nov 2009 20:20 GMT
Last edited by the author on 2 Nov 2009 12:33 GMT
Mr. R. J. Hole says:
I strongly second "The Door into Summer". And I thought the short story "By His Bootstraps" was pretty amazing when I first read it.
I also agree with most of the recommendations above. I'm trying to think of other "books" but there are so many yet it is difficult to think of them. Moorcock's "Behold The Man" is good but although a time machine is necessary for the story the book is not really about time travel. In a similar vein is the short story "Let's Go to Golgotha" by Garry Kilworth. One more "Who Goes Here" by Bob Shaw.
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1 Nov 2009 23:03 GMT
C. N. Posner says:
Try The Green Bronze Mirror by Lynne Ellison
Karen is playing on the beach when she finds an ancient mirror buried in the sand. She looks into it, and is transported back in time to the Roman empire. Finding herself a slave, she faces many hair-raising adventures in her struggle to return to her own time.
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1 Nov 2009 23:12 GMT
Meerkat says:
The Sterkarm Handshake, by Susan Price. Supposedly a teens book, but with a much greater appeal than that. A very clever idea, with original characters and a great setting. What she does so well is to get into the minds of her subjects, who have very different loyalties and morals to the people of today. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and I've read it ore than once. As an adult.
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1 Nov 2009 23:34 GMT
Mr. R. J. Hole says:
Just thought of another one. "Charisma", a novel by Michael G. Coney, is well worth reading.
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