I'm getting lots of great recommendations too!
Time Travel Books
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Sir Terry Pratchett's Night Watch from the Discworld saga features a lead character travelling back in time and having to mentor his younger self. Best Watch Novel. EVER.
Which is why I listed it.
Them, too.
ed.- might I add The X-President to the list?
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I'm amazed that no one has mentioned City at World's End---it's spectacular!
Mistral, since you seem to be the go-to guy for time travel tales, I need some title/author help:
I read a novella somewhere some years ago about a Los Angeles that experienced "time quakes" that were like earthquakes, but if you were standing on the right fault line when one happened you could travel back in time, emerging on the same LA street/park/whatever but in a different year.
And the narrator was a Private Investigator who would get assignments to ride the time quakes and go back and stop serial killers, convey messages, etc.
The entire thing was a great big literary joke about post-modernism, because it was written in a POMO style about a situation where the distinction between time periods and eras had literally collapsed, instead of just figuratively.
It was FANTASTIC but I can't remember the title or author.
I read a novella somewhere some years ago about a Los Angeles that experienced "time quakes" that were like earthquakes, but if you were standing on the right fault line when one happened you could travel back in time, emerging on the same LA street/park/whatever but in a different year.
And the narrator was a Private Investigator who would get assignments to ride the time quakes and go back and stop serial killers, convey messages, etc.
The entire thing was a great big literary joke about post-modernism, because it was written in a POMO style about a situation where the distinction between time periods and eras had literally collapsed, instead of just figuratively.
It was FANTASTIC but I can't remember the title or author.
Wow! This is a great thread - I didn't even know I was looking for a time travel book, and now I have so many to choose from! Thanks! 
Nardpuncher
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I have not read this. It sounds like something Cory Doctorow would write, though. I don't know if he's written any time travel stories but that's the kind of thing he comes up with. Sadly, I have not kept up with newer stuff in the last 5 years as fatherhood has eaten 4/5ths of my former reading time, so if it's recent vintage I probably wouldn't even know the author. I looked at the 2010 Hugo nominees over at Library Thing.com (a good place to ask your question, btw) and realized that for the first time in 30 years I hadn't read any of the nominees.
wow no mention of a Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court from Samuel Clemens?? a true literary classic in my opinion.
Ah, but having sex with your transtemporal counterpart isn't really gay sex---it's just masturbation!
I just finished A Shortcut In Time by Charles Dickenson.
Very good little tale about a guy who discovers a local walking path has some unusual properties. It's on the quiet end of the time travel spectrum.
Very good little tale about a guy who discovers a local walking path has some unusual properties. It's on the quiet end of the time travel spectrum.
I remember that one! I wrote the jacket copy for the hardcover edition.
Roadmarks, by Roger Zelazny. A paved, drivable road with exits and offramps that go to different time periods.
Now you guys have got me interested in Time Travel books. I'm going to have to investigate these and decide which to buy/borrow.
Oh, and curse you all for adding more books to my want-to-read list which is already too long for this lifetime unless I win the lottery.
Oh, and curse you all for adding more books to my want-to-read list which is already too long for this lifetime unless I win the lottery.
H. Beam Piper's Paratime Police stories.
Stephen Baxter's authorized sequel to The Time Machine, The Time Ships.
Chad Oliver The World of Dawn.
Murray Leinster Sideways in Time.
L. Sprague de Camp Lest Darkness Fall
Mack Reynolds/Dean Ing Aztec takeoff on Lest Darkness Fall, forgot the name.
Greg Benford's Timescape qualifies, I think, although strictly it's information that travels in time.
Robert Heinlein's By His Bootstraps and All You Zombies.
Andre Norton's Time Traders series.
Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee.
Stephen Baxter's authorized sequel to The Time Machine, The Time Ships.
Chad Oliver The World of Dawn.
Murray Leinster Sideways in Time.
L. Sprague de Camp Lest Darkness Fall
Mack Reynolds/Dean Ing Aztec takeoff on Lest Darkness Fall, forgot the name.
Greg Benford's Timescape qualifies, I think, although strictly it's information that travels in time.
Robert Heinlein's By His Bootstraps and All You Zombies.
Andre Norton's Time Traders series.
Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee.
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