Best of the best time travel novels

There Will Be Time by Paul Anderson
The Great Time Machine Hoax by Keith Laumer
 
hitmouse said:
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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Interesting..I think you are right. Do you have any favorite authors or books you would recommend of the classic sci-fi era? Or is there just too many to name?
 
Magus Rex by Jack Lovejoy This one involves time travel and it's quite fun to read. :)
 
Swank said:
The Peripheral by William Gibson.
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Haha...I was just going to type , why didn't anybody mentioned this book , just as you did. He wrote a time travel trilogy of books, which I have yet to read but I am going to. It’s the only one I know a little about. William Gibson has always been pretty awesome , at least to me. Has anyone read his trilogy on time travel yet? Probably not here, since this is more a classic syfy forum. But if you have , is it as good as some people make it out to be? I heard it has something to do with a time machine being created around the Trump/Clinton election. Which would make sense why things got so weird since then, lol.
 
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hitmouse said:
Where to start?

Alfred Bester
Cordwainer Smith
Jack Vance
Robert Silverberg
AE van Vogt
Bob Shaw
JG Ballard

I could go on and on and on.
I think we covered lots of them In this thread you initiated.
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You should go on and on. Why? Because you sound to me like a classic science fiction fan and a classic science fiction history buff, which is awesome. We did cover lots more in that other thread, but like BAYLOR said “There is no such thing as too long a book list. ! :D”

Do you have any favorite science fiction novels of that era you love? I like Cordwainer Smith, because he wrote so little, but oh so good. And I love JG Ballard too. I just read The Drowned World because it was on that sf masterworks list ( a great list of the classics imho ) But I feel like his book The Crystal World might even be better, which I’m about read next I think.

The book Replay sounds more like the movie Groundhog Day. So, in that sense it’s not really time travel as it’s just repeating the same day over and over again, still it might be an awesome read regardless. Has anyone here read it yet?
 
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Immortality said:
Haha...I was just going to type why did nobody mentioned this book just as you did. He wrote a time travel trilogy of books, which I have yet to read but I am going to. It’s the only one I know a little about. William Gibson has always been pretty awesome , at least to me. Has anyone read his trilogy on time travel yet? Probably not here, since this is more a classic syfy forum. But if you have , is it as good as some people make it out to be? I heard it has something to do with a time machine being created around the Trump/Clinton election. Which would make sense why things got so weird since then, lol.
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Yes and the trilogy is excellent. Has the 3rd book been published yet?
 
hitmouse said:
Yes and the trilogy is excellent. Has the 3rd book been published yet?
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Awesome, thanks for the heads up because it’s on my Amazon wish list. I can’t wait to read it, I heard good things on Goodreads.

Good question, because Gibson is so clever I believe he wrote Agency to be both a sequel and a prequel to The Peripheral. So perhaps he has just written the ultimate in time travel science fiction.
 
Not a novel, but 'The History of Time Travel' is my favourite complicated time travel movie. It pretty much demands a second viewing to spot what is happening,

My favourite time travel novel is 11.22.63, although it probably isn't as complicated as what you are looking for.
 
I was going threw some old science fiction books and came across this super short story about time travel and I think it’s quite brilliant, and fitting here. It’s by the practically unknown Fredric Brown:

Professor Jones had been working on time theory for many years. “And I have found the key equation,” he told his daughter one day. “Time is a field. This machine I have made can manipulate, even reverse, that field.” Pushing a button as he spoke, he said, “This should make time run backward run time make should this,” said he, spoke he as button a pushing. “Field that, reverse even, manipulate can made have I machine this. Field is a time.” Day one daughter his told he, “Equation key the found have I and.” Years many for theory time on working been had Jones
Professor.
 
Immortality said:
I was going threw some old science fiction books and came across this super short story about time travel and I think it’s quite brilliant, and fitting here. It’s by the practically unknown Fredric Brown:

Professor Jones had been working on time theory for many years. “And I have found the key equation,” he told his daughter one day. “Time is a field. This machine I have made can manipulate, even reverse, that field.” Pushing a button as he spoke, he said, “This should make time run backward run time make should this,” said he, spoke he as button a pushing. “Field that, reverse even, manipulate can made have I machine this. Field is a time.” Day one daughter his told he, “Equation key the found have I and.” Years many for theory time on working been had Jones
Professor.
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One of the original Star Trek Episodes Arena was based on Frederic Brown's story Arena.
 
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