Favorite Time Travel books (characters, author, stories, written)

[kensgirl]

Originally Posted by BlueWillowPlate

I dunno, Henry de Tamble was the most attractive male protagonist I've come across since Mr. Darcy.

OK - now I HAVE to read this book!

[BlueWillowPlate]

Originally Posted by kensgirl

OK - now I HAVE to read this book!

hah!
Their similarities are superficial: (tall, dark etc) but Henry is quite a gentleman, and a dashing one at that. This book is really more of an urban love story than science fiction, but the characterizations were quite vivid, and their story compelling.
If any of y'all out there do read it, let me know what you think, even if you find it tedious or silly.

[karibear]

There's another one I thought of - fantasy, as usual. Some of McCaffrey's Pern books dealt with the dragons' ability to go between time as well as space, and she came up with some interesting side effects of being in two places at the same time, and some of the dangers, also.

[jadybug]

[quote=poconoproud;4249121]I am an H.G. Wells fan...The Time Machine.[/quote]



Far out PO!!!! I love that book!!! And, the old movie!!

I'd also like to add the Bible! Tons of time travel in that wonderful Good Book!

[StoneOne]

Travel literature is not normally something I spend a lot of time on, but for anyone interested in Russia or, broadly speaking, Eurasia, it's well worth taking a look at Colin Thubron's travel accounts. I've read Among the Russians, which was absolutely fantastic. Beautifully written. His books on Central Asia and Siberia are supposed to be equally as good.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by BlueWillowPlate

Re: The Time Traveler's Wife - It is definitely *that* type of novel, where you either love it or you hate it.

I thought this book was fascinating and you're right: people either seem to love it or dislike it intensely...those of the latter group often say they couldn't follow it. It ranks up there with one of my all-time favorite books. I thought Henry was such an interesting character (Clare less so). The story is mesmerizing.

[nightwishfan]

I adored The Time Traveler's Wife! Am I the only one that cried at the end? It took me a little over a week to read it, which is pretty long for me, I usually finish a typical novel in 2 or 3 days tops. But I wanted to savor every word in this story, and sometimes reread paragraphs.

I also liked Timeline by Michael Crichton.

Time travel mixed with reincarnation can be found in my all time favorite time travely (gasp) romance novel, Remembrance by Jude Deveraux.

[sgresident]

I liked timeline, by Crichton. I have not read much time travel, but will look at the library for some of the selections mentioned!

[BlueWillowPlate]

Just remembered another favorite. This is especially fun for history buffs:

Connie Willis' The Doomsday Book
In the novel Willis imagines a near future in which historians do field work by traveling into the past as observers..... a young historian specializing in medieval history, persuades her reluctant instructor and the authorities running the project to send her to England in the early 14th century. This period has previously been thought too dangerous for anyone to visit, particularly an inexperienced young woman. She will be the first historian to visit the period, and believes that she is well prepared for what she will encounter....due to the technician's illness, she has been sent through to England at the wrong time: she has arrived during the Black Death epidemic in England.

[graceC]

There's a book I read a long time ago, written as a colaboration between two of my favorite fantasy authors: Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove called The Household Gods. The story is about a woman (a single mother and a lawyer set in 1990's). One night, while getting ready to go to sleep after a long and thoroughly aggravating day, she wishes for a simpler time in front of The Household Gods statue by her night stand. The next day she wakes up in ancient Roman time, in a small border town between Austria and Roman empire, in her ancestor's body. The authors have done tremendous research on Ancient Roman time and it clearly shows since this is probably one of the most vividly written historical fiction I've read. They didn't pull any punches either, so everything was described vividly yet beautifully, the smell, the colors, the culture, the food, the ugliness of war, the people, the heartbreak, the joy, and the love, I believed it all! I still remember a lot of it even though it's been years since I read the book.

Other than that, I second, or third, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series (although I only really enjoyed the first 3 books), and Michael Crichton's Timeline.