good book involving time travel

[minus1972]

I need a good novel involving time travel to read for a term paper. The obvious ones are out of play (time machine, timeline, etc.), and I'd like something interesting, relatively modern. Any suggestions?

 

[myusername]

hummm. Dunno too many novels.

Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams?
It's not a masterpiece, but it's an interesting genre blend and decently readable. Probably totally unusable for any worthwhile thesis, too.

bump for ideas.

 

[deftron]

Grays Sports Almanac 1950-2000

 

[dug777]

there's a good (for a Dean Koontz) Dean Koontz book on it you could try- i forget the title tho'

 

[nageov3t]

Robert Heinlein - The Door into Summer

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345330129/002-3371830-7690442

"Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them--and at them . . ."

 

[SKORPI0]

The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy--forever.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Here's a list of about a hundred from my site with descriptions and whatnot

http://www.iblist.com/list.php?type=book&key=.*&by=genre&genre=84

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: deftron
Grays Sports Almanac 1950-2000

 

[Schadenfroh]

Ask John Titor

 

[lokiju]

Timeline was great IMO.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: loki8481
Robert Heinlein - The Door into Summer

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345330129/002-3371830-7690442

"Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them--and at them . . ."

:thumbsup: I was just about to suggest that.

 

[dug777]

How 'bout the 'Narnia' books by CS. Lewis?

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Here's a list of about a hundred from my site with descriptions and whatnot

http://www.iblist.com/list.php?type=book&key=

wow, that's cool

 

[MrYAK]

i heard a friend mention a movie a few years back called, "Philadelphia Project"? i tried finding out if this is a real movie or not, but cant find anything about it. any know?

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: myusername

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Here's a list of about a hundred from my site with descriptions and whatnot

http://www.iblist.com/list.php?type=book&key=

wow, that's cool

Yeah, the site can be pretty damn useful for stuff like this.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: MrYAK
i heard a friend mention a movie a few years back called, "Philadelphia Project"? i tried finding out if this is a real movie or not, but cant find anything about it. any know?

If it is involving a USN aircraft carrier going back to Pearl Harbor, then yes, it is a movie.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: MrYAK
i heard a friend mention a movie a few years back called, "Philadelphia Project"? i tried finding out if this is a real movie or not, but cant find anything about it. any know?

The Philadelphia Experiment ?

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: loki8481
Robert Heinlein - The Door into Summer

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345330129/002-3371830-7690442

"Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them--and at them . . ."

:thumbsup: I was just about to suggest that.

Me too!

 

[LtPage1]

Time and Again

older book, but really, really freaking good. the mechanism for time travel is actually hypnosis.


"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have never heard the name Richard Nixon."

Did illustrator Si Morley really step out of his twentieth-century apartment one night -- right into the winter of 1882? The U.S. Government believed it, especially when Si returned with a portfolio of brand-new sketches and tintype photos of a world that no longer existed -- or did it?