Any recommendations for time travel novels?

[Cassandra]

I just finished Timeline and am off to buy a couple of books from Connie Willis. If you can get a copy, The Escape, Star Trek Voyager #2 has a rather fabulous time travel theme.
Any other suggestions?

[Ravenseye]

1. The Time Machine

Well if you've never read it, you've gotta start with The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

Farnham's Freehold by Heinlein is another Time Travel yarn into the Future.

I'm otherwise drawing a blank.

Oh I know. Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Not a strict Time Travel story per se, but he crosses thousands of years by traveling back and forth through space and eventually is very out of place. Sort of one.

[Cassandra]

2. Read it years ago.

Fun but doesn't have that paradox, what-are-the-implications-of-this mind-tease that I really like about time travel stories. I own Farnham's Freehold as well as A Door Into Summer, but it's been so long I can't remember if I've read them or not so I guess that will keep me occupied for a bit. I'll take a look for Forever War. Thanks.

[HawkerHurricane]

12. Heinlien's short story...

"All you zombies..." covers the ultimate in time travel paradoxes.

Kieth Laumer's Dinosaur Beach is interesting... but don't expect any dinosaurs.

[YankeyMCC]

3. Try the Company Novels by Kage Baker

http://www.buy.com/retail/searchresults.asp?qu=kage+baker&search_store=3

Not exactly people jumping into time machines but it does involve sending information into the past and immortals crossing many time periods.

[phantom power]

4. Timemaster, by Robert Forward

Thrice Upon a Time, by James P. Hogan

[salvorhardin]

5. So many good ones to choose from

Robert Heinlein's The Door Into Summer has always been one of my favorites.

Also, check out Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee. It's a time travel novel AND an alternate history novel all rolled into one.

Oh, and while not strictly a time travel novel (it does involve communication through time though), I'd really have to encourage you to read Gred Benford's Timescape.

[hel]

6. I'd suggest Time Traveler's Wife, to be a bit too literal

It's not science fiction, but a very enjoyable read all in all.

Also 'Pastwatch' by Orson Scott Card the asshole is nevertheless pretty good.

[NewHampshireDem]

7. The Connie Willis are the obvious choice

I enjoyed "To Say Nothing of the Dog" much more than "The Doomsday Book" for what it's worth. :shrug:

[ruthg]

8. I loved both To Say Nothing of The Dog and The Doomsday Book but for

very different reasons. One is hilarious and one is devastating.

[mzteris]

9. Corrupting Dr. Nice n/t

[lazarus]

10. Vernor Vinge

The Peace War and Marooned In Realtime offer some very odd ways of traveling through time (one way). Great stuff.

Actually, I can't recommend Vinge highly enough. Fantastic writer.

[Sabriel]

11. Replay, by Ken Grimwood

It's a really good story and I can't say anything more about it without saying too much. The title should give you some inkling of the story....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. The ones I would recommend haven't been written yet... But in five years

Pick up Deteriota by Jack Phlamgella.

Great book!

[SlackJawedYokel]

14. Not time travel per se

But Kage Baker has written a pretty cool variation on the theme with her Mendoza/The Company series.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Kage_Baker.htm

Cletus

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Thrice Upon a Time

One of James P Hogan's best from his pre-freeper era.

[salvorhardin]

16. When did James P. Hogan become a freeper?

I used to really like some of his stuff but haven't read any of it in probably 15 years.

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. Hogan Jumps the Shark

I'd say the slide started with "The Multiplex Man" ~ 1993.
http://www.linkworthy.com/ego/multiplexman.html

Biography here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Hogan_%28writer%29

"In recent years, however, Hogan's preferred theories have tended towards those widely considered "fringe" or pseudoscientific.He is a serious proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky's version of catastrophism, of Intelligent Design over Darwinism, and of the theory that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical use rather than HIV"

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IMHO his writing really began to deteriotate with the shift in politics. I really liked the heroes in the early novels - smart people using scientific method to solve interesting riddles and problems. Now, they seems to read like rants about enviromentalist facsism. It's really sad to compare novels like "The Genesis Machine" and "Voyage from Yesteryear" to anything he has written in the last ten years. But I still read and enjoy his work - probably my affection for heretics (we need them too).

I remember seeing a link to FR along with a rosey endorsement on his site a few years ago. I don't know if he is a member of regular there.

[salvorhardin]

18. Wow. I had no idea.

That's sad really. Voyage From Yesteryear was a really good story and I liked the same thing about his stories as you did -- <div class="excerpt">smart people using science and reason to solve interesting.</div>

I don't know why I stopped looking for his writing, probably becase in the early 90s I was really into reading golden age and earlier science fiction (another thing I liked about Hogan -- his stories were neo-goldenage in construction it seemed). I have to wonder what changed him or if he even perceives it as a change.

Thanks for the info though. Much appreciated.

[phantom power]

19. I always loved Genesis Machine. Probably my favorite Hogan novel.