Favorite Time Travel books (movies, novel, cover, e-book)

[BlueWillowPlate]

And I have to take back what I said.
When you described your cover, it sounded just like the book I used to read.
So then I sought out my copy.
Lo and behold it was a paperback with a black and white photo of a Boulder home, nothing like you described.
I think I had been visualizing the *library* copy that I used to borrow, before I finally broke down and bought my own in 1997.

[tulani]

Originally Posted by BlueWillowPlate

And I have to take back what I said.
When you described your cover, it sounded just like the book I used to read.
So then I sought out my copy.
Lo and behold it was a paperback with a black and white photo of a Boulder home, nothing like you described.
I think I had been visualizing the *library* copy that I used to borrow, before I finally broke down and bought my own in 1997.

If you'd like to see what my cover looks like, write me privately and I'll share it.
It's weird, but I really never liked the cover on my book. Visualizing the mirror is one thing; seeing it on the cover is something else, and it's always creeped me out.

[WVBurn]

I've found my copy of The Mirror and it is a paperback...printed 1980 January. The cover has the mirror encircled with entwined hands and Shay/Brandy in a bridal gown reflected in the glass. It's in reasonably good shape for it's age and I plan to reread it very soon.

[tulani]

Originally Posted by WVBurn

I've found my copy of The Mirror and it is a paperback...printed 1980 January. The cover has the mirror encircled with entwined hands and Shay/Brandy in a bridal gown reflected in the glass. It's in reasonably good shape for it's age and I plan to reread it very soon.

Wise choice.

[Huckleberry3911948]

door into summer.
The Door into Summer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Incognito56]

One book I haven't seen mentioned is The Big Time by Fritz Leiber. It been decades since I read it but I do remember it being one of my favorite books as a teenager. From a review on Amazon.com:

"One of his major SF works is the Change War series, about rival time-traveling armies locked in a bitter, age-old war for control of existence; the battles frequently alter the course of human history. The most important work of Leiber's Change War series is the Hugo Award-winning novel The Big Time, in which doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time."

The Big Time - Google Books

[xGrendelx]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but my favorite is A Wrinkle in Time. I've loved it since I was a kid.

[Thomas R.]

Originally Posted by Bob-666

Another book not mentioned in this thread so far is "THE END OF ETERNITY" by Isaac Asimov, 1955. One of the very few time travel stories that is logically consistent as it recognises that the mere existence of time travel means that reality is variable and can be changed. Indeed that is the whole point of time travel - to control and manipulate society and bend it to follow whatever path you choose ....

That's a favorite of mine.

I also like The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter.

[DesertWanderer]

For a humorous twist, I like the Peter David series starting with Knight Life...about King Arthur and assorted other Arthurian characters brought into modern day New York.
Another favorite-The Summer Country and The Winter Oak, by James A Hetley

[BlueWillowPlate]

Years ago I read this novella: Portrait of Jennie.
Time Traveler's Wife echoes it a bit.
Never did see the movie, though.