AKiCiF: Time Travel Novels
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rolanniA friend writes to ask if I could recommend a book or books: "...that features time travel into the future. Or perhaps into A future from wherever in time one starts. Most of the time-travel books either of us could think of feature stories about going into the past and usually the effects of that on the present, or whatever."
She has since identified the following novels as meeting the above criteria:
The Time Machine
Time Slips
The Accidental Time Machine
The Forever War
...and the question has become a quest: What other books feature time travel into (a) future?
Anybody?
She has since identified the following novels as meeting the above criteria:
The Time Machine
Time Slips
The Accidental Time Machine
The Forever War
...and the question has become a quest: What other books feature time travel into (a) future?
Anybody?
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Date: 2009-07-20 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 02:24 pm (UTC)A.E. van Vogt, Quest for the Future
A.E. van Vogt, Rogue Ship
Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity
Poul Anderson, War of the Wingmen
Robert A. Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps"
If you include getting to "the future" by the normal way (or semi-normal, like being in cold storage) there are many more, including:
Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
Frederick Pohl, Age of the Pussyfoot
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Date: 2009-07-20 02:29 pm (UTC)For other authors: "The Time Ships" by Steve Baxter. "Riding the Crocodile" by Greg Egan. Just about anything by Al Reynolds, but especially "House of Suns". "Marooned in Realtime" by Vernor Vinge. Short fiction: "The Pusher" by John Varley.
Basically, anything that takes relativistic slower-than-light space travel seriously fits the description (e.g. "The Forever War").
Re: Time travel to Future
Date: 2009-07-20 02:36 pm (UTC)What about Isaac Asimov's Pebble in the Sky?
-Becky Regan, long-time fan
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:01 pm (UTC)The only two that i can can remember by title are:
Lightning by Dean Koontz
The Hammer of Darkness by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
I remember the basic plot of a couple of more.
Man’s wife dies and he freezes both until can she be cure, wakes up periodically thru time and finally re-unites with her at the end of the universe. Iffy
Man jumps around (kind of like quantum leap) at one point he ends up marring himself. Strange. Actually that one bothered me.
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:50 pm (UTC)Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime
Of course, one could claim that all books involve time travel into a/the future, one second at a time. . . .
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:53 pm (UTC)Douglas Adam's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:17 pm (UTC)Also, R.M. Meluch's first Merrimack book The Myriad does some great things with the time-space continuum. Not necessarily "to the future" but still spiffy time-play.
Time-Travel
Date: 2009-07-20 04:35 pm (UTC)H Beam Piper has his Paratime series.
Cyril Kornbluth's story "The Marching Morons" is time travel. One Way.
Murgy
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 08:22 pm (UTC)And Orson Scott Card's "Capitol" universe where the rich live a day or two at a time and then "sleep" into the future where they get awoken again for another short time.
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Date: 2009-07-20 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 09:44 pm (UTC)Completely forgot to mention "The City and the Stars"/"Against the fall of Night" (Arthur C. Clarke) and "City at the End of Time" (Greg Bear).
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Date: 2009-07-20 10:15 pm (UTC)How about Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing About the Dog?" Takes place half in the future, where (time-travelling) historians try to rebuild a cathedral destroyed in WWII and half in Victorian times where the hero tries to find the origin of a specific piece of the cathedral's past. It's also hilarious and makes me laugh--one of my favorite books. (Her "Doomsday" is similar--futuristic historian goes back to medieval England and gets caught up in the plague--just as interesting, not, um, as funny.)
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Date: 2009-07-23 05:22 am (UTC)travels by two methods; corpsesickle and blackhole
Charles Sheffield Between the Strokes of Night
One of the characters watches the end of the universe
Rod
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Date: 2009-07-20 11:18 pm (UTC)- The gates allow time travel as well as space travel. There was a rule, back when they were in common use, that forward time travel was allowed but not backward. The qhal made a pastime of setting up cultures of short-lived humans, then jumping forward to see consequences.
The cataclysm seems to have happened when someone broke the rules and travelled backward, attempting to make changes.
Morgaine is a living example of forward time travel in that book.
Cooper, Susan: The Grey King
- Someone brought a mother and son into the future (i.e., our time) by magic - the son needs a safe place to grow up. It's the explanation of a mystery, though, instead of the starting premise.
Gabaldon, Diana: the Outlander series
- Some of those who have the ability to use the stone circles seem to have travelled forward out of their native times instead of back. Not the protagonist, though (although the first other time traveller she encounters in the books turns out to have been from about 20 years in her then-future).
Gaiman, Neil: The Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night
- Though actually he didn't write this one; Ailsa Kwitney edited it. The story in question is: "The lost boy" by Peter Hogan. The title character had the bad luck to run into some of the fair folk on Midsummer's Eve, and travelled forward a few decades in time to *our* time. He's suffering pretty severe culture shock.
H.G. Wells: When the sleeper wakes
- In the same vein, roughly speaking, as Heinlein's The door into summer mentioned previously (sleeping one's way into the future).
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Date: 2009-07-20 11:19 pm (UTC)Adams, Douglas: The restaurant at the end of the universe
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Date: 2009-07-20 11:27 pm (UTC)If you're counting The forever war, there's a chance you might count
White, James: The dream millenium
- Cold sleep is being used to make interstellar colonization practical as a one-way trip. The colonists and crew are awakened every few decades or so for an hour or two.
And one that would definitely count, now that I think about it:
White, James: Tomorrow is too far
- Aforementioned spoiler - time travel is possible, but you can only go so far forward or back as your own lifespan will allow. This turns out to be useful for space exploration, once the difficulty of 1) getting the traveller's mind back into functioning condition (they tend to need a lot of therapy to come back to normal) and 2) getting a record of what happened. It's not easy to transfer *information* back but they beat that problem.
The principal time traveller in the book has heard records of himself as a very old man - they pushed his physical limits of age to get him to be able to see something pretty far out in space, once.
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Date: 2009-07-21 12:37 am (UTC)time travel books
Date: 2009-07-21 12:18 pm (UTC)Flash Forward (can't remember the author - Robert Sawyer or something?)
I've seen a preview, so I believe they are making this into a movie.
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Date: 2009-07-21 04:45 pm (UTC)B. O'Brien
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Date: 2009-07-22 05:05 am (UTC)-Bart
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Date: 2009-07-23 01:08 am (UTC)Time Travel Novels
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