Time Travel Books

[KristyAnne]

I have recently discovered the Cross Stitch/Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It's fantastic, and has renewed my interest in time travel books. Can anyone recommend other books of this genre, but aren't actually "Time-travel romances". Even though Cross Stitch has romance, it kinds of goes beyond that, IYKWIM. Something with a good historical basis would be good. Also, only travelling to the past, not the future. Any suggestions?

Kristy

 

[Romany]

I was thinking about this....you know the book 'Journey to the centre of the earth,' by Jules Verne? It doesn't involve time travel....but, you're able to see a lot of stuff concerning prehistoric times...I was not sure if you were interested in the actual concept of time travel OR the concept of people from one age witnessing the life of another age, which is what this book is abt. I don't want to go into too much detail cos it might spoil the book for you (if you haven't already read it, that is . Anyway, that's my suggestion.

Romany

 

[StAnselm]

Connie Willis' books are excellent - definitely the best of this genre. She has (more or less) the same characters going back to different periods: my favourite is Doomsday Book, set in the 1300s, but To Say Nothing of the Dog (set in the 1880s and 1940s) is also very good.

Just a word of warning - they do get quite emotionally intense.

IYKWIM

Nope. Can't figure that one out.

 

[Ainuhina]

read one once...about a group of people travelling back into the middle age Was quite good (there's a film based on the book too). It was called "Timeline" but I can't remember the author right now....

 

[KristyAnne]

Romany, great suggestion, I've actually already read it. Great book though!

Connie Willis' books are excellent - definitely the best of this genre. She has (more or less) the same characters going back to different periods: my favourite is Doomsday Book, set in the 1300s, but To Say Nothing of the Dog (set in the 1880s and 1940s) is also very good.

Just a word of warning - they do get quite emotionally intense.


Nope. Can't figure that one out.

Thanks for that, I will look into her books.
Were you refering to what "IYKWIM" stands for, or my comments previous to that? IYKWIM= If you know what I mean; by my comment previous to it, I meant books that are more historical than romance, but that it's still good if they have romance in them (basically, if there are half-dressed lovers embracing on the cover, it's not really what I'm after ).

Ainuhina, thank-you for mentioning "Timeline". I've seen the movie, but had forgotten that it was a book too, one that I meant to read ages ago.

You've all been a great help, guys.

Kristy

 

[StAnselm]

Yeah, it was the IYKWIM, if you know what I mean.

I did know what you meant.

 

[Talking Rain]

Timeline -Michael Crichton
Lightning -Dean Koontz
Up The Line -Robert Silverberg*
End of Eternity -Isaac Asimov*
The Ugly Little Boy -Asimov & Silverberg

*These two involve travel to the future.

 

[BrownCoat]

'The General' series by David Drake and S.M. Stirling

It's violent. Essentially, a crystal goes back in time to stop a really bad person from conquering the world.

 

[Solomon Kane]

If you can find them the Time Wars series by Simon Hawke are interesting.

 

[Blackmarch]

I have recently discovered the Cross Stitch/Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It's fantastic, and has renewed my interest in time travel books. Can anyone recommend other books of this genre, but aren't actually "Time-travel romances". Even though Cross Stitch has romance, it kinds of goes beyond that, IYKWIM. Something with a good historical basis would be good. Also, only travelling to the past, not the future. Any suggestions?

Kristy

The Time machine by HG Wells
and Timeline by Michael Crichton


Both are very good books, and timeline is also avery intense one.

 

[Bree1]

I recommend anything by Barbara Erskine. She's a favorite of mine.

 

[HiredGoon]

Time and Again by Jack Finney is excellent with a very interesting theory of time travel, no time machines involved.

 

[VickiY]

http://www.roadtoromance.ca/reviews7104/reviewsleepingoaks.htm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671705091/104-8428821-4613501?v=glance

 

[VickiY]

Oh...AND "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (Mark Twain)

 

[trashy]

Pocket & the Pendant - it's a podcast novel - but it is all finished so you can get all the episodes on your iPod or PC, or buy the CD or printed copy.

Not so much time travel as time *stoppage* (is that a word?)

Good stuff......

 

[Overtime_man]

Poul Anderson's "The Dancer from Atlantis". I read it ages ago, but it seems to me it was a pretty decent book with a time travel plot.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

Timescape by Gregory Benford is good, though it doesn't really involve time travel but rather the sending of messages through time.