Looking for a time travel novel that is precise not magical

[johnnysf]

I don't want "magic" time travel. That's the only way I know to explain it. I was hoping for something precise. I like Michael Crichton because of the way he writes, a realistic style. I enjoyed Timeline. Was hoping for something similar in style, not necessarily content (doesn't have to be medieval, in other words.)

Thank you for any suggestions.

 

[Ramoth's Rider]

He you read the Interprid Enchanter? Its a series of stories by L Spragur de Camp and Fletcher Pratt about a Mathematician Called Harold Shea who uses a math formula to travel throught time!

Its not bad but set in about the 30s 40s.

 

[j d worthington]

The problem with the Pratt/de Camp stories is that they are magical, though addressed as an alternative form of physics. Wonderful stories, though....

I assume, johnnysf, that you're looking for something with at least a pseudoscientific explanation for the mechanism of time-travel, something that sounds plausible whether or not it's scientifically accurate. There are some of these, but not as many as you might think, as time-travel has largely been viewed as an impossibility scientifically. However... you might try Fritz Leiber's The Big Time (and the Changewar story collection), Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity, Gregory Benford's Timescape, or Gordon R. Dickson's Timestorm, for starters, to see if any of these fit what you're looking for....

 

[Spade]

Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick

 

[Bibliophile]

Perhaps Stephen Gould's Wildside would be good. It isn't precisely time travel, but it is a similar concept set in a realistic world without magic or fantasy.

 

[HardScienceFan]

Poul Anderson's The corridors of Time?

ditto the Guardians of Time?

 

[Bibliophile]

Also Timediver's Dawn and The Timegod by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. are quite good. They were joined as an omnibus called Timegod's World. The time traveling is genetic. No fantasy or magic involved.

 

[AE35Unit]

I was thinking End of Eternmity by Asimov, Excellent little book!