Time-travel suggestions please ?

[Moiraine]

OK, I'm a HUGE fan of time travel, and I was wondering, maybe you can give me some suggestions about good books in that area ? Please ?



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[Fljotsdale]

Originally posted by Moiraine: OK, I'm a HUGE fan of time travel, and I was wondering, maybe you can give me some suggestions about good books in that area ? Please ?

Try this site for titles. Just found it for you:

http://www.dr-iguana.com/Books/list_scifi_time.html-ssi

Click on Sci-fi list, then on the time travel book (The Man who Folded Himself)

There's a Harry Harrison in there that I now want, lol!

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[Djinn Raffo]

Dan Simmons Hyperion books have quite a bit of time-travel in them...and a whole lot of other wicked plot devices too...very good series.


I am almost ashamed to mention it...but once i read that Michael Crichton book called Sphere...it deals with time travel as well amongst other topics...

[Mouse]

You might want to check this out.

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[Fljotsdale]

Originally posted by Mouse: You might want to check this out.

Oh, nice, Mouse! I read the short story, of course, but not the novel. I used to be really into Asimov. Silverberg, too, but not as much.

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Dubbed Queen of the Illuminati by Diogenes.

Orson Scott Card "Pastwatch The redemption of Christopher Columbus"
Of course I may be biased, He wrote 3 of my all-time favorite books.

Robert Heinlein wrote some very original short stories/novels as well. "The door into summer" is one and I'd peruse his short story collections for others.

One of my favorites is Michael Moorcock's "Behold the Man" - something which is quite unlike his Elric/Corum/Hawkmoon/Erekose/et cetera ad nauseum series. I also enjoyed Simon Hawke's "Time Wars" series, which ran to around 10 or 12 books. Both of these are kind of dated, however, and might be a little hard to find. There are others that I've read that I've enjoyed, but unfortunately I'm suffering from a brain fart right now and can't think of them. I'll post if/when I do.

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[Zbyszek]

There is also great book written by Wolfgang Jeschke - but I forgot name
I remember also one written by Clifford Simak but no luck for titles

[Balgin]

There's a very good book which you should read (which might turn you off time travel) which takes it very seriously. It's by a Russian author but I can't remember the name (I believe she died last week, was an MP as well).

The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin.

In this book a young man (Ivan Osokin) has made a terrible mess of his life. In desparation he goes to a theatrical friend of his, a stage magician and after a short conversation informs his friend that if he could go back in time and relive his life he wouldn't make all of those mistakes again. The magician disagrees, in fact, assuring him that he has the powers to perform such a deed but is loath to do so. Eventually Ivan persuades his friend (whose name is never mentioned throughout the story, he is simply "the magician") to allow him to relive his life. So, he is at school, he has been sent back in time, now of course since he has been sent back to a time that was before the previous events, they have not happened yet and he is a child with no memories of what is to come (since that would be a contradiction in terms). As a result of this, combined with his personality, the way that he reacts to things and the situations that he is placed in, he lives exactly the same life, identical even to the point where he begs the magician to send him back. The third or fourth time he returns the magician breaks the repetive stream by explaining to him that this is not the first time that he has been sent back at exactly the same time (therefore it is but it also isn't) and sends him forth to carry on with his life.

Who goes Here. (author also unrecalled)

A young man signs up for the Space Legion (think French Foreign Legion). They have changed their policy, now they erase their soldiers memories (only requested memories) prior to signing them up. Most people who join the Space Legion do so under false names (via hypnosis) to quote the book "it's simple, you simply print you're chosen alias on a peace of paper and the machine puts you into a deep hypnotic transe, the hypnotists just round the corner". So, a deserter, ashamed of what he has done decides to reinlist as Leo Tolstoy, he meets himself (just after his second desertion via a time loop, the second self is trying to find out about his missing memories) and, being a semi smart chap decides to take one of the great mans books along with him. "Are you sure something won't go wrong? I mean, you won't look at the wrong part of the book or anything"...."I might have had my fair share of misfortunes mate but I'm hardly going to christen myself War and Peace now am I?" So about half an hour later Private Warren Peace signs up for the Space Legion and things get funnier from there.

If I can find the authors name I'll post it up here but you should love these two. (Also The Time Machine by H.G.Wells is pretty good, the film version wasn't, more happens in the novel).

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[Zbyszek]

Originally posted by Zbyszek: There is also great book written by Wolfgang Jeschke - but I forgot name I remember also one written by Clifford Simak but no luck for titles

I have found them
Wolfgang Jeschke "Der Letzte Tag der Schoepfung" (The Last day of Creation?) - it is great, if you could find it READ it (it it was published in France).

There is funny book by Erik Simon and Reinhard Heinrich "First time travels" - this one for sure is from east germany so it may be not available.
Clifford Simak - "Time and Again"
Paul Anderson - "The Guardians of Time" - brave cops save our past and future many times - book not to think about just to read quickly but nice - there are also similar books by Andre Norton.
And I confirm that Harrison book "technicolor time machine"

Orson Scott Card - he is GREAT!