Newbie....Time Travel Book Suggestions?

[pd7333]

Hi 

 

Im so sorry if Im posting in the wrong place!

 

Basically, Ive just finished reading the Time Rider Series by Alex Scarrow and really enjoyed it.  I love SF and time travel in particular.

Can any of you guys recommend a series or even one novel along the line of the series above? Ive read Crichtons Timeline and again, was gripped.

 

Basically looknig for a good time travel novel, not too old (in publishing not age)

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

[Athena]

I haven't heard of the series you mention, but I might have to have a closer look at it.

 

Books I've read that have involved time travel:

Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (this is more contemporary fiction than science-fiction, it's more about how the people deal with the accidental time traveling of the man, who keeps going back and forth in time.

H. G. Wells - The Time Machine (this is a classic and so may be not exactly what you're looking for)

Joe Haldeman - The Accidental Time Machine (a story of a man who accidentally builds a time machine and then ends up using it to travel into the future)

Guillaime Musso - Seras-Tu La? (I read this translated into Dutch, I don't know what the English title is. Again it's more of a contemporary fiction story rather than a science-fiction one.)

 

I'd also recommend Ken Grimwood - Replay though this doesn't involve time travel but more replaying time.

 

I think Arthur C. Clarke may have written some short stories on time travel but I don't remember which ones I'm afraid.

 

Books about time travel that I haven't read yet:

 

Stephen King - 11.22.63

Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates

 

Books that I think might be about time travel:

Doctor Who?

 

P.S.1: I think most of my recommendations are adult books, in case this is important.

 

P.S.2: It should be moved to the recommendations section, I'll ask a mod.

[pd7333]

Thats a great help.  I was weighing up the accidental time machine as a potential.  May have to go for that.  Ive also had recommendations for Replay and 11.22.63.

 

FYI - Time Riders is a series of books by Alex Scarrow (published by Puffin).  Its aimed at young adults, but I never realised this when I picked up the first book.  Ive been hooked since.  there are currently 8 books out, with the final 9th being published in 2014.  They are a terriffic read and not at all in any way "juvenile".

 

Thanks again

[Vimes]

I have heard that the Neanderthal Parallel series by Robert J. Swayed are very good. It won the Hugo award...should be good. Sci-fi isn't really my cup of tea so I don't really know of any other time travel books.

[TStarnes]

What about alt. history time travel.  Where people are thrust into the past and then live there lives going forward from there.  That's really the only time travel I read.

[Vimes]

Then I would suggest the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. They might not be your cup of tea is they are kind of a love story threw time. Claire (a main character) accidentaly travels threw some standing stone into, I think 1800 th century Scotland where she meet Jamie and the story how from there. I really like them so and the historical info is interesting. She realised a book the explains about the time and the land and all is the plants and stuff that she dug up while researching for the books.

[vodkafan]

Hi pd. Up The Line by Robert Siverberg is a classic time travel book. Another is Beyond The Barrier by Damon Knight.

edit: Just remembered Millenium by John Varley . Book is brilliant, film was awful.

Edited September 28, 2013 by vodkafan

[geordie9]

im afetr a good time travel book also but id definitely recommend stephen kings 11/22/63 if u havent read it