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05-01-2006, 01:59 PM
|  | syntax free | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: murray street
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| | | books about time travel?
i am interested in reading books about time travel. not theories of time travel, although i would read those too.
i want books in which time travel plays a prominent role.
madeleine l'engle's time quartet does this well, although its space/time travel.
something along those lines.
if you know any, please let me know. |
05-01-2006, 08:36 PM
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| | | Yeah, I was obsessed with time travel for awhile, and it had everything to do with Donnie Darko. There's a JG Ballard short story (someone travels back in time, kills a butterfly and alters the course of history forever) which I can't remember the name of right now, but it should be in any collection of his short stories, which are all very good.
Or there's always The Time Traveller's Wife?
A good theory based book is Black Holes, Worm Holes and Time Machines by JS Al-Khalili |
05-01-2006, 09:28 PM
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| | | the time machine by hg wells. |
05-01-2006, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by betty blue the time machine by hg wells. | was that the one they made a movie based on? |
05-02-2006, 11:21 AM
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| | i've never seen any of the films based on it, but there was one made in 1960, and another in 2002. |
05-02-2006, 08:36 PM
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| | | hitchikers guide to the galaxy and the other novels in the series by douglas adams mention time travel quite a bit. |
05-02-2006, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by beelzababe There's a JG Ballard short story (someone travels back in time, kills a butterfly and alters the course of history forever) which I can't remember the name of right now, but it should be in any collection of his short stories, which are all very good. | are you sure it wasn't ray bradbury? http://www.raybradbury.com/books/goldenapples-tp.html
this book was adapted to a movie and is a recent DVD release here in australia. it's called 'a sound of thunder' and is an excellent movie to watch but no doubt, the book or short story would be amazing too. http://asoundofthunder.warnerbros.com/ |
05-02-2006, 10:39 PM
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| | check out "scientific romance" by ronald wright http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASI...999508-8552845
i think it's a really good read and not too sci-fi-ey at all. in fact it's one of my favorite "go to" books |
05-03-2006, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by had a dad are you sure it wasn't ray bradbury? | Yep, your right. Im forever mixing things up.
It's a good story anyway, shit like that fascinates me. |
05-05-2006, 08:05 PM
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| | | As a major Doctor Who geek I have read squillions of novels about time travel, there's a whole series of Doctor Who novels published by BBC Books designed for non-teenyboppers, but some are utter shite and all are rather fan-y, so on second thoughts I don't think I'd recommend them unless you're a fan. But won't edit. Be varned! |
05-05-2006, 08:11 PM
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| | | Woman On The Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Good anarcho-communist utopian novel about a mental patient who is in touch with
the future. |
05-07-2007, 04:23 AM
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Originally Posted by dgilmour  | Are you their PR?
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
05-07-2007, 05:02 AM
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| | The Time travellers wife.
I really liked this book  |
05-07-2007, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by beelzababe Or there's always The Time Traveller's Wife? | Yeah, this book was really great. |
05-07-2007, 10:59 AM
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| | | Starmaker by Stapledon is sort of a great time travel book, though it is an outterbody experience in which he experiences the future of the universe.
It isn't jumping into a machine or anything. Anyway, its the most ambitious book i've read. |
05-07-2007, 02:14 PM
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| | | The Time Traveller's Wife is a fucking amazing book.
I have read it four times.
Four times.
I might read it again. Now.
And it also raises the question "would you have sex with yourself if you could travel in time?", which very few people I know are prepared to answer. |
05-07-2007, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Duchess The Time Traveller's Wife is a fucking amazing book.
I have read it four times.
Four times.
I might read it again. Now.
And it also raises the question "would you have sex with yourself if you could travel in time?", which very few people I know are prepared to answer. | hahaa.
aw i want to read it again now too. i remember connecting really strongly with the feelings in it when i read it, especially in the beginning half. |
05-07-2007, 05:21 PM
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| | | is anyone here working on a time machine, by chance? i'd like to build one eventually but it seems pretty difficult.
anyone know of more like... non-fiction books about time travel? |
05-07-2007, 09:05 PM
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