Best of the best time travel novels

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I just got finished reading ‘The Man Who Folded Himself’ by David Gerrold and I thought it was pretty good, of course Heinlein did a better job with his short story :

-All You Zombies-

Only the best of the best please. The more complex the better I will like it. ‘The Man Who Folded Himself’ was more like a fleshed out version of -All You Zombies- .
In fact one could say it may be plagiarism. I want a time travel novel with so many loops and tilt-a-whirls that it’s enough to drive you crazy with all the possibilities and paradoxes of time travel.

Thanks
 
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, yeah... but that’s not very complex. Read below about the films I recommend.

What would you guys and gals say out of all the time travel fiction is the most complex or confusing? In other words what’s the ultimate time travel novel, novella or novelette you have read? For example have you ever seen the films ‘Predestination’ starring Ethan Hawke, or ‘Primer’ directed by Shane Carruth. I’m looking for really confusing stuff like that. They are both great time travel films worth repeat viewing. Perhaps ‘The Man who Folded Himself’ is the best time travel science fiction novel of all time after all, because it goes all over the place.

Anyway It doesn’t have to be syfy , it can be any genre.
 
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Immortality said:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, yeah... but that’s not very complex. Read below about the films I recommend.
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To clarify: you are not asking for the best time travel novels ( as per the title of the thread), you are asking for the most complex? And are films now part of the mix?

I will respectfully disagree about A Christmas Carol.
 
First off , thanks for the recommendations so far everyone. Awesome!!! Keep ‘em coming.

hitmouse: you are right I’m looking for the most complex. I just used films as a way of showing good time travel concepts like in the film ‘Primer’. But if anyone knows any good complex time travel films too, I’m all for it. Complex time travel short stories are probably easier to come by , but not what I’m looking for at the moment, just novels for now...and perhaps film if you know any good ones. I’m sure I know them all though. Edit: I changed my mind if you know any good to great complex time travel short stories, I’m open to it too. But mostly I’m looking for novels, because I read short stories in like a nano-second, and that’s no fun for me.

But I was wrong hitmouse and you were right as usual, lol, I am looking for time travel novels that will boggle the mind and are complex in their time traveling concepts.

I thought ‘By His Bootstraps’ and –All You Zombies– were masterpieces of short stories. A lot of people these days dislike Heinlein and I can’t figure out why.
 
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The Anubis Gate by Tim Powers. The one is off the charts in terms of story concept and it's a blast read:)
The Timeships by Stephen Baxter A sequel to H G Wells move. The Time travel goes back to the future and finds a totally different future then the the one went to the first time around and the reason why are quite interesting. :)
 
Is there a decent database or place one can download books where there is no longer a copyright on them? Like Project Gutenberg for example?
 
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Perhaps this question is for another thread but I always wondered why people still read classic science fiction these days. Would anyone care to answer why they like older science fiction?

I personally only read a select few of older science fiction, like your guys and gals recommendations, and sf masterworks.
 
Immortality said:
Perhaps this question is for another thread but I always wondered why people still read classic science fiction these days. Would anyone care to answer why they like older science fiction?

I personally only read a select few of older science fiction, like your guys and gals recommendations, and sf masterworks.
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It depends how you want to describe classic SF. From one of your other threads I guess you mean anything written before about 2000.

The answer is that lots of it is fantastic. To ignore it is to miss out on multitudes.
 
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