Time Travel Books

[acappellasaurus]

I am a massive fan of time travel fiction (well, non-fiction too, I suppose) and am looking for recommendations on good reads within this topic. I will list off the ones I've read that come to mind, to encourage recommendations for things I have not yet read. Thanks!

Already Read:
Time After Time by Jack Finney
Time And Again by Jack Finney
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
The Accidental Time Traveller by Jack McDevitt

(Will add more as I think of them)

 

[Starbreaker]

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (you've already read the sequel apparently. )

Timelike Infinity/Ring/Exultant by Stephen Baxter - extremely creative use of time travel.

 

[Reverend]

'The Time Traveller's Wife' leaps to mind - Very good book. I suppose you could count 'The Forever War' as a time travel story in the sense that it's one character skipping forwards through time. Either way it's worth a read.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Cross-Time Engineer by Leo Frankowski

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock

Times Last Gift by Philip Jose Farmer

TimeWars series by Simon Hawke

 

[Mistral]

Guns of the South
The Lincoln Hunters
Lest Darkness Fall
The Proteus Operation
Islands Of Tomorrow
Run, Come See Jerusalem
any Kage Baker "Company" novel
Farnehm's Freehold by Heinlein
The Door Into Summer
The Armageddon Blues
Time Enough For Love
Island In the Sea Of Time (trilogy)
1632(ongoing series)
Time Patrolman, The Corridors of Time, Past Time, Time Wars, The Guardians of Time,The Shield of Time-all by Anderson
Replay-Grimwood
The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream, also, To Sail The Century Sea by Edmundson
Marooned In Realtime
The Eternity Brigade-Stephen Goldin(similar but different to Forever War)
Designated Targets(trilogy)
After the Fact
A Time TO Remember-Stanley Shapiro
Cowboy Angels-Paul McAuley
A Rebel In Time-Harrison
Bones Of the Earth
Bid Time Return-Matheson
EON-Greg Bear
The Accidental Time Machine
The Technicolor Time Machine

hope this helps...

 

[Christopher]

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov is a classic that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet.

Poul Anderson's The Time Patrol might be worth checking out. Anderson largely uses the time travel as an excuse to indulge his love of history; although the Time Patrol is based in the far future and some characters are from there, none of the stories ever has any major portions taking place further in the future than the publication date, but there's extensive exploration of all sorts of ancient and prehistoric cultures from all over the world, plus the occasional alternate timeline that the heroes have to change back. The whole series can be found in two volumes, a 1991 omnibus called The Time Patrol and a 1990 novel called The Shield of Time.

 

[JoeZhang]

You might want to track down a second hand copy of The Time Travellers which is a Doctor Who book but is different from most as it's actually about time travel rather than simply having Time Travel as a plot device to get somewhere and it also features a take on time travel within Doctor Who that I don't think I've seen anywhere else.

 

[FluffyUnbound]

To Mistral's awesome list I would add An Oblique Approach by Drake and Flint and the subsequent books in the series. Well, maybe the next two or three books in the series anyway.

 

[Greg Cox]

I am a massive fan of time travel fiction (well, non-fiction too, I suppose) and am looking for recommendations on good reads within this topic. I will list off the ones I've read that come to mind, to encourage recommendations for things I have not yet read. Thanks!

Already Read:
Time After Time by Jack Finney
Time And Again by Jack Finney
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
The Accidental Time Traveller by Jack McDevitt

(Will add more as I think of them)

FYI, I believe Time After Time is by Karl Alexander. Perhaps you're thinking of From Time to Time by Jack Finney, which was the sequel to the Time and Again?

Other recommendations:

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg
Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson

I also can't resist plugging Timeshares, a new short-story anthology edited by Jean Rabe and Martin Greenberg--which just happens to contain a new story by yours truly!

 

[Mysterion]

I second the recommendation for Robert Silverberg's Up The Line. I would also add to the list David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself.

 

[Mistral]

Thanks, Christopher, I almost forgot-Pebble In the Sky by Asimov.

@Fluffy-I was actually on the bbs while at home for a change and could look at some of my books instead of going off memory. Thanks for calling it awesome-it was incomplete but I managed to get a few in there...

ed.-Dancer In Atlantis

 

[jadcox@mindspring.com]

If you're a baseball fan at all, If I Never Get Back is terrific.

 

[Forbin]

Not time travel per se, but The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke is an amazing experience. It postulates a technological ability to view the past, but not interact or travel. The book is a brilliant study of the technology's effect on humankind and society.

 

[Vendikarr]

Robert Aspirin's Time Scout series has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.

 

[Canadave]

Not time travel per se, but The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke is an amazing experience. It postulates a technological ability to view the past, but not interact or travel. The book is a brilliant study of the technology's effect on humankind and society.

I'll second this. It's the rare example of one of Clarke's collaborations with another author that's truly good, too.

Also, if you haven't read Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughter-house Five, then you should give it a try. The main character becomes unstuck in time, and is constantly popping back and forth between different points in his life.

 

[Greg Cox]

Not time travel per se, but The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke is an amazing experience. It postulates a technological ability to view the past, but not interact or travel. The book is a brilliant study of the technology's effect on humankind and society.

I'll second this. It's the rare example of one of Clarke's collaborations with another author that's truly good, too.

Also, if you haven't read Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughter-house Five, then you should give it a try. The main character becomes unstuck in time, and is constantly popping back and forth between different points in his life.

Along the same lines, there's also REPLAY by Ken Grimwood, about a guy who keeping living his life over and over, with different results each time . . .

A really good book.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.

 

[The Comedian]

Island in the Sea of Time series, SM Stirling

The Axis of Time, by John Birmingham

 

[Evil Twin]

One I read a while back and enjoyed was Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove. It's about a single working mother of two living in modern L.A. who wakes up one morning and finds herself in the body of an ancestor of hers, also a single mother of two, living in a 2nd century Roman frontier town. Although she finds she can speak and understand Latin, she doesn't know anything else about the period and has to get by without knowing when or if she'll ever return to the present. Really gets into the nitty-gritty of what daily life was like in that time, which I found very interesting.

 

[Forbin]

Brabching out into anime, I recently enjoyed "The Girl Who leapt Thru Time."

I think that was the title. Though it's more lite family fare than anything daring.