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The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
Barry N. Malzberg, ed.

Features fourteen classic time travel stories.


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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

Inexplicably pulled back in time to the antebellum South, a contemporary black woman, raised in the age of Civil Rights and Black Power, must confront the realities of black history in America.


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Timeline
Michael Crichton

Quantum theory combines with the medieval past in a suspenseful adventure.


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A Shortcut in Time
Charles Dickinson

Surprised when a hasty dash down a familiar walk in Euclid, Illinois, sends him back in time fifteen minutes, artist Josh Winkler becomes increasingly alarmed at the appearance of a young woman who claims to be from 1908.


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The Cymry Ring
Michael Allen Dymmoch

Detective Ian Carreg is assigned to arrest Dr. Jemma Henderson, who’s been convicted of murder in the U.S. He finds her in a shed near Cymry Henge, but before he can take her in, they’re sucked into a time machine that takes hem to Roman Britain.


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By a Lady: Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England
Amanda Elyot

During an audition for a play about Jane Austen, New York actress C.J. Welles is transported back in time to Bath, England, at the turn of the nineteenth century, where she falls for Owen Percival, the cousin of Jane Austen, and finds herself torn between two different eras.


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The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde

In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in Literary detection, tries to stop the world’s Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature.


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Time and Again
Jack Finney

Simon Morley moves into the Dakota apartments and returns to the year 1882 under hypnosis, where he falls in love and refuses to change records for the government agency controlling his experiment.


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1632
Eric Flint

A mysterious accident in time causes 21st-century American democracy to collide with the Thirty Years War in 17th-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia.


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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon

In Scotland with her husband on a second honeymoon after WWII, Claire enters a circle of stones and is transported back to the Battle of Culloden 200 years earlier, where she must marry a Scot to save her husband.


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For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs
Robert A. Heinlein

After crashing his car in 1939, Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes.


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Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin

When master mechanic Peter Lake attempts to rob a mansion on the upper West Side, he is caught by young Beverly Penn, the terminally ill daughter of the house, and their subsequent love sends Peter on a desperate personal journey.


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The Plot to Save Socrates
Paul Levinson

Reading a new Socratic dialogue that reflects a time traveler’s argument to the great philosopher that he can escape death by traveling to the future, graduate student Sierra is astonished when the elderly scholar who showed her the document disappears.


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Somewhere In Time
Richard Matheson

Richard Collier, a dying screenwriter, becomes infatuated with Elise McKenna, a celebrated actress at the turn of the century, and his love proves strong enough to bring him through time to her side.


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I Went to Vassar for This?
Naomi Neale

When a microwave malfunction transports her back in time to 1959, trendy Manhattanite Cathy Voorhees finds herself in a world devoid of the Internet and cell phones, where she, while trying to find a way back, vows to change history — with a little help from her handsome neighbor.


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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.


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Three Days to Never: A Novel
Tim Powers

More than fifty years after Einstein makes a horrific scientific discovery, Frank Marrity and his daughter, Daphne, visit the home of Frank’s deceased grandmother, unaware that she had been the secret daughter of the legendary scientist. Now they are being monitored by the Mossad and an occult European cabal, and Daphne has in her possession the key to an ultimate secret weapon.


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Here, There & Everywhere
Chris Roberson

Roberson’s deceptively lighthearted take on the phenomena of time travel and alternate universes features a likable heroine whose quick mind and caring heart should appeal to adventure with a conscience fans.


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Morrigan's Cross
Nora Roberts

As a powerful vampire, with an unquenchable thirst for destruction, prepares to unleash her fury, a medieval sorcerer, one of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan to stop her, must travel through time and into the embrace of the one woman brave enough to help him.


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Island in the Sea of Time
S. M. Stirling

A colossal dome of fire and a violent storm shift the universe, reduce the North American continent to wilderness, and sweep the island of Nantucket into the year 1250 B.C., placing its inhabitants in a battle for survival.


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The End of Mr. Y
Scarlett Thomas

Discovering a copy of a mysterious book reputed to be unread by anyone presently alive, Ariel Manto, a young woman harboring a fascination for nineteenth-century scientists, finds herself transported into a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others.


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Gunpowder Empire
Harry Turtledove

In the late twenty-first century, Jeremy Solter travels into alternate timelines in order to work alongside his family at the frontier of the Roman Empire and is separated from his parents when the time gateways stop working.


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Mammoth
John Varley

Stumbling upon a perfectly frozen woolly mammoth in the northern wilds of Canada, a mammoth hunter is stunned when he also finds the mummified body of a Stone Age man, dating from around 12,000 years ago, wearing a modern-day wristwatch.


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Doomsday Book
Connie Willis

A crisis linking the past and future strands an Oxford student in the most dangerous year of the Middle Ages.


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