A time travel story I don't see get mentioned on BookTube (aside from Bookpilled mistaking it for historical fiction) is Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg. A rookie agent of the Time Service, Edward Davis, is sent back to ancient Egypt to find two missing members of the Service. It is a short read that explores how people of means can rationalize upending another's life to maintain their own standard of living.
Very interesting list! I recently read and loved Paul Anderson’s Tau Zero, so I may add There will be Time to my tbr. Thanks. Btw, King’s 11/22/63 is my favorite time travel story.
Time and Again was a memorable read. I loved the method of time travel, and how the author depicts the moment confirming that the traveler has arrived at an earlier time.
I love a good time travel novel. I have actually read a handful of these. Never heard of Pastwatch, so definitely have to check that one out. Love Matt Haig's stuff, including How to Stop Time. I have to recommend 'Time Travelers Never Die' by Jack McDevitt. Great video!
The Proteus Operation by James P Hogan I avoided this for years because I avoid time travel books but this was way better than I expected. Island in the Sea of Time by SM Stirling The Nantucket trilogy. The entire island of Nantucket shifts to around 1200 BC and the islanders have to cope. No more IRS. YAY!
Here's one I don't think was mentioned: "The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold (1973) The protagonist inherits a time travel belt and ends up spending his time with dozens of other versions of himself over the course of his lifetime.
It appears that your time machine also hops into alternate realities. Might want to have your mechanic look under the hood. 🔧 Seriously though, thanks so much!
Thanks for the recommodations - I knew some of them, noted others as to read. I also loved Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Looking forward to other videos from you.
Thanks for these recommendations of books, specifically by authors that have other, more well known works (e.g., Joe Haldeman and The Forever War, which could have made this list, as well)! I’m getting near retirement and have decided I might try to write a book that addresses the glaring problems with most time travel books. That is, it is a spacetime continuum we are in. In other words, if you simply traveled six months into the past, without traveling in space, you would end up in space with the earth on the opposite side of the sun from you. I haven’t seen one that addresses this conundrum. It will take some doing to make this idea into a usable story, it would be nice to see it addressed.
Interesting list. Time travel is always a fascinating theme with so much storytelling potential. I would also recommend Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time, which I recently read, in which a man is sent back in time from the 1980s to prehistoric times as part of secret government project, where he joins a small tribe of proto-humans.
Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation, Larry Niven - short story. Time is the Simplest Thing , Simak. The Door into Summer, Heilein. A Wrinkle in Time. Downtiming the Night Side, Jack Chalker. Farmer has time traveling rabbits and teleporting foxes in one of his World of Tiers stories. In Creatures of Light and Darkness, Zelazny has characters who engage in combat using "Temporal Fugue".
"Letters Back to Ancient China" by Herbert Rosendorfer. To avoid political intrigue, a 10th century Chinese mandarin invents a time machine and ends up in 20th century Munich. Probably easier to find in the original German, and it may help to have some familiarity with modern Germany.
Absolutely. I have "Time Patrol," "The End Of Eternity," "The Time Machine," "The Forever War," and many more. But, I have read "Dinosaur Beach" more times than the rest combined. Written in a sort of A E van Vogt style, Laumer actually came up with some new concepts in this one. I also have all of Laumer's Retief series. Just great, sometimes funny, satirical, or just plain critical.
Awesome video - i've done a couple of time travel videos myself, and have a bunch of books to read so that I can do another one. You've given me more books to look out for! - I'm going to seek out the Poul Anderson one first. Great video - I've subscribed!
Re: Bees in Top Hats; A chapter was omitted from Alice in wonderland because Sir John Tenniel (The great Punch artist) claimed that A Wasp in a Wig was impossible to illustrate!
It seems like time travel stories are written by people who are interested primarily in sci-fi rather than history. That one about WW1 sounds interesting, but I suspect that the war would have started some other way a little later even if there hadn't been an assassination, so I'm curious how the book handles that.
Whenever someone asks about an under-rated book in general, I usually say The Timeline Wars by john Barnes. It's a series that's a trilogy of novellas. I'll definitely be looking into the ones you mentioned here though!
Thank you for the suggestions. I liked A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt. Cast Under an Alien Sun by Olan Thorensen. Kindred by Octavia E Butler. A Long Time Until Now by Michael Z Williamson. Lost in Time by AG Riddle. Mr Was by Pete Hautman. The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer. And of course The Middle Falls time travel series by Shawn Inmon.
Great list! That first book by Claire North (I never heard of it until this video) completely rips off Ken Grimwood's book Replay from the 1980's. Your synopsis of the plot sounds almost identical. I'll have to check that one out, but Replay is one of my favorite time travel books of all time.
OK! noted. i find time travel an old trope. (get it?) but it can be terrifying and seems to just keep flowing. i would mention three that i found recently and an old one. Slaughterhouse Five, of course, comes to mind first. The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter has some terrifying elements and lots of ideas in a reworking of The Time Machine. (what happens when one falls out of a timeline? horrifying!) another surprising find was Cowl by Neal Asher which is a time travel novel with a strange title. a war on the timeline between evolved humans and the ultimate bioengineered human. well done. lots of ideas such as Jurassic military depots (bases). Asher is good. the last one is a movie, Time Trap, which will give you some chills if you're into it.
I just thought of another one! I hope you don't mind these things come back to me. Here is the link to a short film in seven parts about a science vessel around a terrifying temporal anomaly. It's not a book but it's on the dust channel. It's one of the best time loop story is I've seen. ua-cam.com/video/YVuZDtz-Aes/v-deo.htmlsi=5E-ru_BCGJfsioAf
There is a sequel short story by another author, where Martin Padway is sucked uptime to the future that he created, and the people of that Time are surprised that he was perfectly comfortable with the idea, having lived in multiple timelines, which they didn’t realize/know.
@@Egilhelmson Oh, very interesting - thanks! I looked up "sequel" and found through Wikipedia (yuck, but can use it for basic facts) that there are a number of sequels by different authors. It's something to look into.
Sorry about that! I'm still trying to figure out the best ways to link to the books I chat about. I'm happy to send you the Amazon links if you tell me the three books that you're interested in.
If you don’t have Poul Anderson’s Time Patrol or There will be Time on the list it’s BS. I’m guessing you at least have The Time Machine by Wells . But wait you’re so young probably not.
Thanks for watching! I do have There Will Be Time on this list, but since I tried to include “underrated” time travel books, The Time Machine didn’t make the cut. It’s too well known! 😂
Thanks for the recommodations - I knew some of them, noted others as to read. I also loved Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Looking forward to other videos from you.
"Replay" is a classic. "To Say Nothing of the Dog: A novel of the Oxford Time Travel serie." Connie Willis and great fun.
I was shocked it was left off of this list
A time travel story I don't see get mentioned on BookTube (aside from Bookpilled mistaking it for historical fiction) is Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg. A rookie agent of the Time Service, Edward Davis, is sent back to ancient Egypt to find two missing members of the Service. It is a short read that explores how people of means can rationalize upending another's life to maintain their own standard of living.
Sounds great! Added it to my list ✅
I enjoyed The Anubis Gate but my real favorite was Richard Matheson's 1975 time travel romance, Somewhere in Time.
Very interesting list!
I recently read and loved Paul Anderson’s Tau Zero, so I may add There will be Time to my tbr. Thanks. Btw, King’s 11/22/63 is my favorite time travel story.
I’ll have to add Tau Zero to my list! I need to get around to reading 11/22/63 soon. There’s just not enough time in the day! 😅
@@KevinsNovelAdvice I know! It’s a problem…
11/22/63 one of my favorites too.
@@KatAnne17 Yes! The time travel aspect - fun, the historical context - interesting, but it’s the romance that in the end steals the show. 😃
I loved How to Stop Time. Replay is one of my favorites. I read Oona Out of Order recently and loved it.
Great suggestions! I don't think I've heard of any of them, so I'm off to check them out!
And here I was, thinking that no one but me had read The Anubis Gate! 😂
Time and Again by Jack Finney is a great time travel story to check out, too.
Time and Again was a memorable read. I loved the method of time travel, and how the author depicts the moment confirming that the traveler has arrived at an earlier time.
Jack Finney is terrific. There's a small tribute to him in the movie _Somewhere in Time_ by making a minor character Professor Finney.
I love a good time travel novel. I have actually read a handful of these. Never heard of Pastwatch, so definitely have to check that one out. Love Matt Haig's stuff, including How to Stop Time. I have to recommend 'Time Travelers Never Die' by Jack McDevitt. Great video!
Thanks! I’ll have to give that one a look.
The Proteus Operation by James P Hogan
I avoided this for years because I avoid time travel books but this was way better than I expected.
Island in the Sea of Time by SM Stirling
The Nantucket trilogy. The entire island of Nantucket shifts to around 1200 BC and the islanders have to cope. No more IRS. YAY!
Thanks for the recommendations!
Allow me to suggest two great time travel books Recursion and The Man Who folded himself. And the classic short story By His Bootstraps.
Recursion is great.
Here's one I don't think was mentioned:
"The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold (1973)
The protagonist inherits a time travel belt and ends up spending his time with dozens of other versions of himself over the course of his lifetime.
I have a time machine. I travelled to 2027 and found out this channel will have a million subscribers
It appears that your time machine also hops into alternate realities. Might want to have your mechanic look under the hood. 🔧 Seriously though, thanks so much!
Thanks for the recommodations - I knew some of them, noted others as to read. I also loved Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Looking forward to other videos from you.
Thanks! I liked Doomsday Book, but I haven’t read 11/22/63 yet. I need to at some point soon.
Muppet Christmas Carol IS the goat. Also love treasure island.
the Time Rider's series by Alex Scarrow is so incredibly good, I can't believe more people don't know about it!
I’ll put it on my list. Thanks!
Thanks for these recommendations of books, specifically by authors that have other, more well known works (e.g., Joe Haldeman and The Forever War, which could have made this list, as well)!
I’m getting near retirement and have decided I might try to write a book that addresses the glaring problems with most time travel books. That is, it is a spacetime continuum we are in. In other words, if you simply traveled six months into the past, without traveling in space, you would end up in space with the earth on the opposite side of the sun from you. I haven’t seen one that addresses this conundrum. It will take some doing to make this idea into a usable story, it would be nice to see it addressed.
Thanks for watching! That sounds like a cool concept for a time travel book. ⏳
Interesting list. Time travel is always a fascinating theme with so much storytelling potential. I would also recommend Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time, which I recently read, in which a man is sent back in time from the 1980s to prehistoric times as part of secret government project, where he joins a small tribe of proto-humans.
Thanks! That sounds like a cool premise.
Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation, Larry Niven - short story. Time is the Simplest Thing , Simak. The Door into Summer, Heilein. A Wrinkle in Time. Downtiming the Night Side, Jack Chalker. Farmer has time traveling rabbits and teleporting foxes in one of his World of Tiers stories. In Creatures of Light and Darkness, Zelazny has characters who engage in combat using "Temporal Fugue".
You left out 2 of my favorites:
* Replay (Ken-Grimwood)
* Elleander Morning (Jerry Yulsman)
So many people recommended Replay that I went ahead and read it. Amazing book! I'll have to look into Elleander Morning. Thanks for the rec!
"Letters Back to Ancient China" by Herbert Rosendorfer. To avoid political intrigue, a 10th century Chinese mandarin invents a time machine and ends up in 20th century Munich. Probably easier to find in the original German, and it may help to have some familiarity with modern Germany.
That sounds really interesting. I just need to brush up on my German!
I have not read any of these, and they may just best my personal favorite time travel novella: Keith Laumer's Dinosaur Beach. Thank you for this list.
I’ll have to look that one up. Thanks!
Absolutely. I have "Time Patrol," "The End Of Eternity," "The Time Machine," "The Forever War," and many more. But, I have read "Dinosaur Beach" more times than the rest combined. Written in a sort of A E van Vogt style, Laumer actually came up with some new concepts in this one.
I also have all of Laumer's Retief series. Just great, sometimes funny, satirical, or just plain critical.
Good stuff, glad to have found your travel. Amis' Time's Arrow would also have been a good one here
Awesome video - i've done a couple of time travel videos myself, and have a bunch of books to read so that I can do another one. You've given me more books to look out for! - I'm going to seek out the Poul Anderson one first. Great video - I've subscribed!
Thanks so much! Time travel books are a lot of fun. And there’s such a variety of them!
Julian May’s Saga of the exiles should have been on this list!
I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the rec!
The Psychology of Time Travel was an interesting take on the subject.
This video was too dangerous for my wishlist 🤑. But i still loved it!
You missed Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Re: Bees in Top Hats; A chapter was omitted from Alice in wonderland because Sir John Tenniel (The great Punch artist) claimed that A Wasp in a Wig was impossible to illustrate!
😆That’s hilarious!
It seems like time travel stories are written by people who are interested primarily in sci-fi rather than history. That one about WW1 sounds interesting, but I suspect that the war would have started some other way a little later even if there hadn't been an assassination, so I'm curious how the book handles that.
First time watching. Just subscribed. Best wishes with your reading choices in 2024.
Thank you!
Whenever someone asks about an under-rated book in general, I usually say The Timeline Wars by john Barnes. It's a series that's a trilogy of novellas.
I'll definitely be looking into the ones you mentioned here though!
Thanks for the suggestion!
"Time Story" by Stuart Gordon. Oops! Stuck in a loop ;-)
Thank you for the suggestions. I liked A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt. Cast Under an Alien Sun by Olan Thorensen. Kindred by Octavia E Butler. A Long Time Until Now by Michael Z Williamson. Lost in Time by AG Riddle. Mr Was by Pete Hautman. The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer. And of course The Middle Falls time travel series by Shawn Inmon.
Thanks for your recommendations, too!
Thrice upon a time was a good one
Great list! That first book by Claire North (I never heard of it until this video) completely rips off Ken Grimwood's book Replay from the 1980's. Your synopsis of the plot sounds almost identical. I'll have to check that one out, but Replay is one of my favorite time travel books of all time.
I hadn't heard of Replay before, but I'll have to add it to my list. If they're similar, I'm sure I'll like it!
Replay is my favourite time travel book too; I think you will like it :)
Replay is a fantastic one! :)
OK! noted. i find time travel an old trope. (get it?) but it can be terrifying and seems to just keep flowing.
i would mention three that i found recently and an old one.
Slaughterhouse Five, of course, comes to mind first. The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter has some terrifying elements and lots of ideas in a reworking of The Time Machine. (what happens when one falls out of a timeline? horrifying!)
another surprising find was Cowl by Neal Asher which is a time travel novel with a strange title. a war on the timeline between evolved humans and the ultimate bioengineered human. well done. lots of ideas such as Jurassic military depots (bases). Asher is good.
the last one is a movie, Time Trap, which will give you some chills if you're into it.
Oh and another one occurred to me. The Peace War by Vernor Vinge. The arrow of time becomes a bit terrifying via bubble universes.
Thanks for the recommendations! 🙏 I’ll have to look into a couple of those.
I just thought of another one! I hope you don't mind these things come back to me. Here is the link to a short film in seven parts about a science vessel around a terrifying temporal anomaly. It's not a book but it's on the dust channel. It's one of the best time loop story is I've seen.
ua-cam.com/video/YVuZDtz-Aes/v-deo.htmlsi=5E-ru_BCGJfsioAf
Any books based on mummies
Timescape, Timescape, Timescape
I love S. King's 11/22/63 mainly because of the time travel story.
I desperately need to get around to reading that one!
It's an epic story
@@KevinsNovelAdvice and one audio version by a former actor makes it even better.
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg
Thanks, I added these to my ever-growing to-read list. My offer: Lest Darkness Fall - L. Sprague de Camp
Thanks! Hadn’t heard of this one.
@@KevinsNovelAdvice Oh, yes, it's very well done. Read it a while back - more of a novella if I remember, but some very interesting ideas.
There is a sequel short story by another author, where Martin Padway is sucked uptime to the future that he created, and the people of that Time are surprised that he was perfectly comfortable with the idea, having lived in multiple timelines, which they didn’t realize/know.
@@Egilhelmson Oh, very interesting - thanks! I looked up "sequel" and found through Wikipedia (yuck, but can use it for basic facts) that there are a number of sequels by different authors. It's something to look into.
Sir i want to know about a long n intresting science fiction novels 😅❤pls reply sir❤
sir, please give links of all books .
i want to buy 3 books.
Sorry about that! I'm still trying to figure out the best ways to link to the books I chat about. I'm happy to send you the Amazon links if you tell me the three books that you're interested in.
If you don’t have Poul Anderson’s Time Patrol or There will be Time on the list it’s BS. I’m guessing you at least have The Time Machine by Wells . But wait you’re so young probably not.
Thanks for watching! I do have There Will Be Time on this list, but since I tried to include “underrated” time travel books, The Time Machine didn’t make the cut. It’s too well known! 😂
Thanks for the recommodations - I knew some of them, noted others as to read. I also loved Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Looking forward to other videos from you.
Thanks so much! I enjoyed Doomsday Book as well. Hopefully I'll get to 11/22/63 soon, but its size scares me a bit.