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A 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?

Date: 2009-07-20 11:27 pm (UTC)
disassembly_rsn: Run over by a UFO (WARNING: NONSTANDARD SPACETIME)
From: [personal profile] disassembly_rsn
By the by, massive spoilers for a James White novel appear below.

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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