I am looking for a time travel novel that is as accurate in observation as Audrey Niffenegger's (which is to date, the best that I have read). I have already read of course Time Ships and The Time Machine. Thank you all in advance
2007-03-23 21:02:32 · 7 answers · asked by thinker 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm very happy to recommend two wonderful books.
"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut. A truly astonishing novel; one of the very few that I've read three times.
It somehow manages to combine the life of a optician in 1960's America, the fire bombing of Dresden in the Second World War and a trip to the planet Tralfamador, all wrapped up with wit and wisdom from the author.
And "Time's Arrow" by Martin Amis. One of those others I've read three times. Not time travel as such, but a life lived backwards. So the book starts with a death and works back to a birth. Take a moment to think it over. Everything we do and are seen the wrong way round. It manages to be great fun then darken to take another perspective on the concentration camps in the 1940's. I've spoken to others who've read the book and they, like me, found that when they looked up from reading they had to remind themselves of which way time is travelling now. How great an achievement is that by an author?
I wish you happy reading.
2007-03-24 04:27:10 · answer #1 · answered by monklane79 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jack Finney's 'Time & Again' is a classic in the time travel genre. The synopsis from the back of the paperback says:
Si Morley is bored with his job as a commercial illustrator and his social life doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So, when he is approached by an affable ex-football star and told that he is just what the government is looking for to take part in a top-secret programme, he doesn't hesitate for long. And one night he steps out of his twentieth-century, New York apartment back into the winter of 1882, and finds a kind of Eden. Or does he?
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There is also a sequel called "From Time to Time".
I love these books, the research must have taken the author ages because the detail of life in New York 1882 is incredible.
I can'r recommend them highly enough!
2007-03-24 09:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by Apollonia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" is in a similiar vein. The protragonist is not carried physically through time but mentally. Poul Anderson touched on time travel frequently (especially his Time Patrol series of course) and Clifford D. Simak's "Mastadonia" touches lightly on some of the issues.
Sadly, none of them outdo Niffenegger. She's the best so far imo as well.
2007-03-23 21:52:02 · answer #3 · answered by maxdwolf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might enjoy A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright. Similar in feel, although much less about the practicalities of time travel.
2007-03-23 21:39:40 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.barbara-erskine.com/
Try Barbara Erskine her books have a time travel type theme not like Time Travellers Wife which was the best book I have read in years.
Erskines are well researched and are good.
2007-03-24 06:22:34 · answer #5 · answered by BigMomma2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As good, but in a different genre, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - well worth reading.
2007-03-24 07:24:35 · answer #6 · answered by jennifer c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love that novel...the characters seem so real..and you get soo attached to them....sorry I haven't found another novel
--yet--
that could possibly compete
--They're making a movie-- it will come out next year =]
2007-03-24 13:13:18 · answer #7 · answered by 1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋