Time Travel Books

[Carpe Occasio]

The short story "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury. Supposedly the most re-published science fiction story of all time. You can read it at the link below.

http://www.lasalle.edu/~didio/courses/hon462/hon462_assets/sound_of_thunder.htm

(Ignore the film of the same name)

 

[Forbin]

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.

Read this when it came out-a brilliant little tale that was largely overlooked.

I remember that one! I wrote the jacket copy for the hardcover edition.

Weird thing is I thought it was new - a book collector friend of mine gave me an "uncorrected review proof" of it. When I finished it, I passed it on to my wife who told me she already read it years ago. It's like, I can never discover anything!

 

[stj]

Nice list. Please see page One.

Sorry about the overlaps with your nice list on page one.

 

[Mistral]

Nice list. Please see page One.

Sorry about the overlaps with your nice list on page one.

Better to have bases covered than to let something slip thru the cracks!

 

[BrotherBenny]

Nice list. Please see page One.

Sorry about the overlaps with your nice list on page one.

Better to have bases covered than to let something slip thru the cracks!

Nothing ever slips though the cracks because we go back in time and list it.

 

[Silvercrest]

If you write a book about that, you can add it to the list.

 

[Mistral]

Sorry about the overlaps with your nice list on page one.

Better to have bases covered than to let something slip thru the cracks!

Nothing ever slips though the cracks because we go back in time and list it.

Didn't Barry Malzeburg right a short story about something like that?

 

[stj]

Incidentally, I've never read the Xeelee sequence, just Vacuum Diagrams (which is a very confusing approach to the series!) But strictly speaking, the Destiny's Children sequence by Baxter includes Coalescent, Exultant and Triumphant. Exultant does indeed contain time travel, complete with paradoxes, as does the concluding Triumphant. Baxter also another series about time travel of a sort manipulating history, the navigator sequence. But Baxter is an English novelist and not all his books make it to the US hinterlands.

But this last reminds me of Fritz Leiber Jr.'s Change War stories!

 

[Starbreaker]

Exultant is my favorite Baxter book.The main character, Pirius, disobeys orders and abandons a fight. He manages to go back in time and give information about the upcoming battle (this happens frequently, the war has been at a standstill for millions of years), but the current and future him are set to be imprisoned for the crime.

It's set in the Xeelee universe, but is much better than the first four in my The Destiny's Children is a set of three standalones that fall into the Xeelee Universe as well.

 

[Mal]

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

came here to recommend End of Eternity. it sent chills down my spine when i read it as a boy. i recently read it again after, er, decades... and it was just as amazing as i remember!