Jack Finney had a great short story about neighbors who were just a little TOO cutting edge, but tell a story about a future time when people invented time machines and started vacationing in the past .. and then more or less decided, all at once, why bother coming back? Because the future was so bleak and full of war-mongering super powers. And then, funnily enough, the neighbors moved away very shortly after telling the story because they had friends who were due to arrive in the area soon... (Hmm). Actually, Jack Finney had some great time travel books.
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: 2009-07-20 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.)