Time Travel

[MajorLordRoxbro]

Can the membership suggest any Time Travel novels I could read.
The resultant paradoxes always fascinate me.

[Volya]

The Time Traveler's Wife.

[AuntShecky]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

[TheFifthElement]

Slaughterhouse 5, though maybe you've already read it.

[DATo]

Can the membership suggest any Time Travel novels I could read.
The resultant paradoxes always fascinate me.

Greetings Major! Have you ever read Cloud Atlas? Its principle conceit does not exactly involve itself with time travel but rather with what I might phrase as a continuum in time. Another by the same author, David Mitchell, which has similar characteristics is Ghostwritten. Mitchell is considered a post-modernistic writer, and though "different" his novels are quite accessible to the average reader.

[MajorLordRoxbro]

The Time Traveler's Wife.

I didn't like the film, should that be anything to worry about?

[MajorLordRoxbro]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

I have read it twice; very good.

[MajorLordRoxbro]

Slaughterhouse 5, though maybe you've already read it.

I read it years ago and now cannot remember the author?

[MajorLordRoxbro]

Greetings Major! Have you ever read Cloud Atlas? Its principle conceit does not exactly involve itself with time travel but rather with what I might phrase as a continuum in time. Another by the same author, David Mitchell, which has similar characteristics is Ghostwritten. Mitchell is considered a post-modernistic writer, and though "different" his novels are quite accessible to the average reader.



I haven't read it thanks for the suggestion. Is it one of your favourites?

[TheFifthElement]

I read it years ago and now cannot remember the author?
Slaughterhouse 5 was written by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a good read. I can also recommend Cloud Atlas, though as mentioned it's not really a book about time travel but rather a book which is set in a number of different time frames and genres with tenuous links between them all. It is a very clever book, full of literary allusions.

A Tale for the Time Being is another book which tinkers with the idea of linkages through space-time. Not exactly a time travel book, but an interesting play on the question of time and being. Not surprisingly (given the title).

[Iain Sparrow]

Time and Again, by Jack Finney

[Dono]

It's not precisely a Time Travel story but Piers Anthony did a series about the avatars of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and one of the characters lived backwards. I think he was "death" and his book was called "with an hourglass" or similar. Good series and trying to stay up with the paradox was mindbending.

[Volya]

I didn't like the film, should that be anything to worry about?

I haven't seen the film myself but my parents did, they said it was terrible in comparison to the book. I thought the book was very good although there is not a huge focus on the sci-fi aspect of it, it is more about the difficulty of having a relationship with a time travelling man.

[JHG]

The Forever War, by Joseph Haldeman. Besides being one of my favorite Sci-Fi, it has a fascinating and seemingly scientific approach to time travel and light-speed travel (which, if my physics are correct, are one in the same). Also, if you have any interest in warfare and soldier drama, this should be a very good read for you.

[DATo]

I haven't read it thanks for the suggestion. Is it one of your favourites?

I think Ghostwritten was the better of the two books actually. I wouldn't say Cloud Atlas is necessarily a favorite of mine but it's author, David Mitchell, is enormously more talented as a writer than the last author I recommended to you - Susanne Collins - and the book is a much better work of art than any of the books in her trilogy.

[AuntShecky]

In a way, every reader engages in "time travel" when he or she reads an evocative book written in an earlier era.

Science fiction as a genre has plenty of time travel sagas. One "meme" (I'm not crazy about that trendy word) about time travel is the "time travel paradox." I think it was Isaac Asimov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov) who posed the hypothesis of going back into time to kill one's grandfather before your father was born. If you thus succeed in killing your grandfather, then you would have never existed, and thus it would have been impossible for you to murder your own grandfather.

Hmmph.

I looked for one of Isaac A's time travel novels on the web (he wrote hundreds of books on a variety of subjects, covering nine out of the ten major categories of the Dewey library system) and this one seems like fun:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/134978930/isaac-asimov-time-travel-and-the-end-of-eternity


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

[ennison]

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