Any recommendations for books with a time travel theme?

[fatnuts]

Hey everyone,

Now that my Journeyman withdrawl is about to start, I want to use my Barnes and Nobel giftcard to get a book that has a nice trime travel theme. This is one of my favorite topics in books and film. Can anyone give me some recommendations? I've read a bunch, but can only think of Dean Koontz - Lightning (surprisingly good).

Thanks and have a very happy winter carnival,

Fat Nuts

[MadMatt]

I like Poul Anderson's stuff. He does a series centered around the Time Patrol, and the first one I read was The Shield of Time. I don't think it's the first in the series though. Either way, his stuff is pretty darn good.

EDIT: Just checked wikipedia and Poul Anderson did a lot of stuff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_anderson). And I was right; the book I started with was actually very late in the series. It was number 10 of 11.

[fatnuts]

Thanks I'll have to check that out!

[cougarjake13]

time machine by hg wells

[Don Stugots]

time machine by hg wells

hell yeah. i love that book.

[cougarjake13]

hell yeah. i love that book.

much better than the movie that came out a few years ago

[underdog]

I haven't read it, but isn't Slaughterhouse-Five about time travel? And people rave about that book, too.

[sailor]

the ugly little boy, but it's not about protagonist hopping thru time, so maybe not what you're looking for. let me think on some others.

[Stankfoot]

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[Don Stugots]

much better than the movie that came out a few years ago

i liked the movie.


time machine, IMO, shows what i think will really happen to the earth. we become so arrogant that we cause our own destruction, the planet heals itself and moves on.

[cougarjake13]

i liked the movie.


time machine, IMO, shows what i think will really happen to the earth. we become so arrogant that we cause our own destruction, the planet heals itself and moves on.

i liked the movie just fine but the book was better

[Sevenyears]

Stephen Kings the Dark Tower

[hedges]

wrong thread...sorry

[Mike Teacher]

I haven't read it, but isn't Slaughterhouse-Five about time travel? And people rave about that book, too.

Yeah it involves time travel; the protagonist goes to /revisits [do I need a spoiler alert for something I'm not even sure I remember correctly and probably no one cares about? Anyway...] his childhood, then being in WW2 and being captured as a POW and witnessing the bombing of Dresden, from the depths of a slaughterhouse [this happened to Vonnegut for real] and the to the future by creatures called Tralfamadorians. I think.

Memory blurs the book and the horrific, disasterous movie with Valerie Perrine and her breasts. Oh Gaaaah what a terrible awful film. Wretch.

[Mike Teacher]

Christ I'm so long winded I forget the thread I suck.

The book and movie 'Altered States' deal with time travel of a sort. If you called tripping your balls off so intensely in a sensory deprivation tank that you revert back to past stages of your evolution 'time travel'.

Of course, Planet of the Apes, ya it was a book, but I never read it.

Michael Crichton's 'Timeline' I thought was a great read; the movie didnt last ten minutes in my DVD player.

[sailor]

asimov - the end of eternity

[Marc with a c]

get some choose your own adventures

[donnie_darko]

just read 1984, seriously, its all happening.

fez is proof they've got some kinks to work out with the soma though.

[SatCam]

the novelization of back to the future

[Sevenyears]

wrong thread...sorry

No, the first book in the series is all about time travel. He finds himself everywhere finding his "Katet"

[earthbrown]

No, the first book in the series is all about time travel. He finds himself everywhere finding his "Katet"

Great series, was kinda disapointed at the ending...

I LOVE the gun fighting scene in the first book, where roland is in the old west town, great description.


K

[Furtherman]

Jack Finney - Time And Again and it's sequel, From Time To Time.

Great books about time traveling in New York City.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

There was this really scary book some guy I know picked up one time about monkeys... it teleports you to 1939 and back to 2007 instantly, but ages you 68 years in the process.

I do believe the title was Hhhhaaaattttssss for Saaaalllleeeee

[Tall_James]

I know its not technically time travel but I enjoyed "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula Le Guin. I remember there was a PBS adaptation when I was younger that scared the shit out of me.

[moochcassidy]

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[S0S]

Island in the Sea of Time, S.M. Stirling
Ceasar's Bicycle, John Barnes
Harry Turtledove's How Few Remain
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series
Michael Moorcock's Multiverse
Robert A. Heinlein has some books

Michael Crichton's Timeline SUCKS!
It is one of the hackiest books.

[Bill From Yorktown]

James P Hogan "Thrice Upon a Time" - not time travel but time communication - good read (then again anything Hogan writes is good)

[CassiusClay]

Madeleine L'engle "A Wrinkle in Time" - Childish but still a fun read.

[ATMfromChico]

This falls into the category of "not exactly time travel" but the Foundation series by Asmiov deals with the manipulation of humanity through a long period of time, with events planned out by certain forces.

Also there is a kick ass trilogy by an author named Dan Simmons. The first book is called Hyperion. There is a lot of flashbacks and non-linear stuff that happens. There are these mechanical creatures called the Shrike that put certain people on this gigantic tree of pain where they are impaled and left to suffer for indefinate periods of time for uknown reasons (at least until you get to the third book). Highly recommend this series.

Oh yeah and there is also a complete time traveling, conspiracy based, mind-fuck called the Illuminati Triology (comes bound in one book). This one is hard to describe other than it is a fascinating trip (literally) from an author that did drugs. A hell of a lot of drugs. But still fascinating.

:drunk:

[Death Metal Moe]

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[GwEnYpOo]

"Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley

Again, not exactly time travel, but it may as well be. Very good read.

Also,

"Jitterbug Perfume" - Tom Robbins

See above, one of my all time favorite books. Tom Robbins is an amazing author, he also wrote "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues".

[Bill From Yorktown]

not time travel in the traditional sense (one way) but the first 3 "Giants Novels" from James P Hogan.

oh and "Delicate Sound of Thunder" - it's a short story but can prolly be found on the net (or via a pm to someone here)