Time Travel paradox stories

[TomMazanec]

I don't know if the OP is still following this, but the ur-example of time travel tangles is Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1891)...four years before Wells' novel.

 

[BigBadBob141]

I was watching a You Tube short about best time travel films, and I got to thinking one of the best time travel short stories I've read was Robert Heinlein's very memorable "- All You Zombies-", and I was just thinking that they should make that into a film, when blow me one of the film's reviewed was just this plot, the film's title was "Predestination" but it is an adaptation of this story, look up the story on Wikipedia it has an interesting diagram of the events in the story, so how's that for coincidence or was it predestination, spooky!

 

[Steve Harrison]

I was watching a You Tube short about best time travel films, and I got to thinking one of the best time travel short stories I've read was Robert Heinlein's very memorable "- All You Zombies-", and I was just thinking that they should make that into a film, when blow me one of the film's reviewed was just this plot, the film's title was "Predestination" but it is an adaptation of this story, look up the story on Wikipedia it has an interesting diagram of the events in the story, so how's that for coincidence or was it predestination, spooky!

Predestination was a great movie. Time travel stories are notoriously difficult to carry off and that one did it very well.

As to novels, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes is terrific.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Nick Gifford's Tomorrow.

 

[Don]

El anacronópete by Enrique Gaspar uses time travel, which predates Wells. There may be English translations available for it. Avid fans of fictional time travel owe it to themselves to acquire Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction by Nahin and, to a lessor extent, Man and Time by Priestly.

 

[RJM Corbet]

Perhaps the definitive and original one was Ray Bradbury's 'A Sound Of Thunder' first published in 'The Golden Apples of the Sun' short story collection?

A Sound of Thunder - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Bick]

There was a time travel novella published in Analog in 2013 that I really liked: Time Out, by Edward M. Lerner
It's not been reprinted I think, so you'd need to track down the issue of Analog (perhaps it's available online). My memory is that it was a cracker of a story - I remember it as I corresponded with Lerner about it briefly at the time.

 

[Rodders]

Neal Asher’s Cowl was a pretty good time travel book. I don’t remember if there was a paradox.

I also enjoyed the idea from Dean Koontz’s Lightening in which some things just couldn’t be changed. For example, the woman in the story is disabled and no matter what the hero did, she remained disabled but the cause of her disability would be something different. Some things are just fixed in time.

 

[Stenevor]

I'm pretty sure there's one at the end of Peter F Hamilton's Fallen Dragon. It's a rare stand alone novel from him so you don't have to commit to thousands of pages if anyone fancies trying it.

 

[TomMazanec]

My favorite is "As Never Was" by P. Schuyler Miller.
I always wondered where that knife came from...

 

[Cayleb]

You could do worse than start Jodi Taylor's 'Chronicles of St. Mary's' series, the first book being 'Just One Damned Thing After Another'.

 

[Danny McG]

Terry Pratchett
Night Watch

 

[hitmouse]

Terry Pratchett
Night Watch

Yes. Superb novel. Probably my favourite Pratchett.

 

[BigBadBob141]

I really, really love the Nightwatch books, I like the scene in one where two army's are facing each other, getting ready to fight when commander Vimes gallops up in between them and arrests them both for disturbing the peace, if only it was like that in real life!

 

[hitmouse]

Pratchett also has a book with sort of shaolin monks who can manipulate time (?The Thief of Time.) The monks have a very effective martial art called Deja Fu.

 

[Ogma]

There's also "The Man Who Folded Himself" by Gerrold.