Best Time Travel Books
Topic List99 of 113 books67 recommendations totalTime travel fiction recommended most by writers and readers — paradoxes, alternate histories and quiet literary takes. Including the novels that treat the mechanics seriously.
A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Slaughterhouse-Five is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a chaplain's assistant named Billy Pilgrim. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. Vonnegut's use of the firebombing of Dresden as a central event makes the novel semiautobiographical, because h...
Hyperion Cantos, Book 1
A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multipleawardwinning author of The Hollow Man.On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. T...

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A Novel
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A Novel
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Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie_x0097_when his reality shatters. 'Are you happy in your life'Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he aw...
Outlander, Book 1
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach?an ?outlander??in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...

If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas Bah humbug!'Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his...

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He succeeds in placing before the reader a vision of the world in cosmic time' Norman NicholsonThe Time Traveller knew that Time was only a kind of Space. The fantastic story of his adventures in a machine which could travel in any direction of Space and Time has captured the imagination of millions.H. G. Wells, one of the giants of twentiethcent...

A heartfelt, spellbinding, and irresistible debut novel for fans of The Time Traveler_x0092_s Wife and Outlander that movingly examines loss, faith, and love as it follows a grown woman who travels back in time to be reunited with the mother she lost when she was a child.Faye is a thirtysevenyearold happily married mother of two young daughters. Every...

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A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke How would you survive Could you improve on humanity's original timeline And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat With this book as your guide, you'll surviveand thrivein any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time...

Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleve...

The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time (Chicago Tribune).A MOST UNTRADITIONAL LOVE STORY, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural...
Like What Dreams May Come, which inspired the movie starring Robin Williams, Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern Fantasy,.Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time ...

A Novel
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To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere_x0097_and anywhen_x0085_Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in I.T., trying to keep the spark in his marriage, and struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career as a timetraveling secret agent from 2142.Stranded in suburban San Francisco ...
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of timetraveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VEDay. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle ...
A Novel
Multiawardwinning author Willis delivers a story that examines one of the toughest issues of all: death. Part medical thriller, part literary exploration, Willis plunges readers into a bizarre and fascinating world....

3/7 (Harry Potter 3)
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Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece and groundbreaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò.In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowni...

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For Kivrin, preparing an onsite study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvo...
A Novel
"A fully engrossing read." - George R. R. Martin

The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One
The first book in the bestselling British madcap timetravelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone_x0092_s cup of tea._x0093_History is just one damned thing after another._x0094_ _x0097_Arnold ToynbeeBehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary_x0092_s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don_x0092_t...

Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 1
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a...

A Time Travel Romance (Volume 1)
She's finally met the man of her dreams. Only one problem: he lives in a different century.HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL FOR LOVEA mysterious artifact zaps Isabelle Rochon to preVictorian England, and suddenly her love of historical authenticity collides with the reality that she_x0092_s a modernday girl. But when a thief steals her card case, she determin...
Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of it all, a new drug has just entered circulation_x0097_a drug that haphazardly sends its users traveling through time. In an attempt to escape his doomed marriage, Dr. Eric Sweetscent becomes caught up in a...
Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the earlynineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to timetravelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about t...
NAMED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AS A BEST BOOK OF 2019 _x0093_Passionately brutal, fierce, and furious in voice and pace. It_x0092_s a particularly cinematic experience of war, Full Metal Jacket meets Edge of Tomorrow._x0094_ _x0097_The New York Times From the Hugo Award_x0096_winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during whi...
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex nearfuture thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguisti...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Time, Travel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”
When Kate PierceKeller_x0092_s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteenyearold Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate_x0092_s presentday life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out...
A ModernHistoric Love Story (Time Travel)
On the day she and her mother escaped her cruel father, Emma Washington vowed to never fall in love. Now, Emma is a backtoschool PhD student with bigger and better things to worry about. That is, until one night, exhausted, slightly tipsy, and on her way home from a party, the glaring white light of a car comes crashing toward her, changing her l...
A Novel
Alternate cover edition for ISBN 044900094X / 9780449000946For previous cover edition see hereConnie Ramos, a woman in her midthirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force ...

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When fragile, sixteenyearold Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. Trapped in the twelfth century in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hope...

A new series about a young woman whose connection to antiques takes her on a magical adventure, reminiscent of OutlanderNew York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance to launch a new series guaranteed to enchant her audience even more.Xanthe and her mother Flora leave Lo...
Set in the wilds near Cornwall's seatossed coastline, The House on the Strand concerns a young man's experiments with hallucinogenic drugs and his travels back and forth in time to the mysteries of 14th century England. Gradually growing more involved in the lives and emotions of the early Cornish manor lords and their ladies, he finds his own lif...
This classic work of science fiction is widely considered to be the ultimate timetravel novel. When Daniel Eakins inherits a time machine, he soon realizes that he has enormous power to shape the course of history. He can foil terrorists, prevent assassinations, or just make some fast money at the racetrack. And if he doesn't like the results of t...

I was in an accident. I got out. I_x0092_m safe now.An alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, where a damaged clock can fracture time_x0097_and a destroyed one can stop it completely.A prodigy mechanic who can repair not only clockwork but time itself, determined to rescue his father from a Stopped town.A series of mysterious bombings that could...

Timeless Series, Book 1
When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor's family, she is forced to move from Los Angeles to New York City to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she has never met. In their historic Fifth Avenue mansion, filled with a century's worth of family secrets, Michele discovers the biggest family secret of all an ancestor's diary that, amazingl...
Alice Payne returns in the thrilling sequel to Kate Heartfield's Alice Payne Arrives.After abducting Arthur of Brittany from his own time in 1203, thereby creating the mystery that partly prompted the visit in the first place, Alice and her team discover that they have inadvertently brought the smallpox virus back to 1780 with them.Searching for a ...
"Tom Merritt's timebending space adventure had me hooked from the start." Gary Whitta, screenwriter, Star Wars: Rogue One and The Book of Eli, author of Abomination What if a time traveler lived in a world where disrupting the timeline could destroy everything in the universe everything but himself Pilot X is Ambassador of the Alendans, a r...

Joe Haldeman "has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time" (Rocky Mountain News). Now he delivers a provocative novel of a man who stumbles upon the discovery of a lifetimeor many lifetimes. Gradschool dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forc...
Scott Warden is a man haunted by the pastand soon to be haunted by the future. In early twentyfirstcentury Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its b...
From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeenyearold Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder s...
Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father_x0092_s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenthcentury China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have fou...
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world_x0092_s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project_x0097_and future of time travel_x0097_in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team_x0097_erasing her contributions from history.Fifty yea...

A Novel
Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Lord Nicholas Falcott wakes up in twentyfirstcentury London. The Guild, a secretive fraternity of time travelers, informs him that there is no return. But Nick yearns for the beautiful Julia Percy, who remains in 1815. As fate and the fraying fabric of time draw Nick and Jul...
A powerful tale of time travel, time lost, time regained and time disrupted. In this remarkable narrative, watches and clocks become time machines, vehicles to explore alternate realities, the unreliability of memory and roads not taken.Martin and Dora Newland sometimes siblings, sometimes lovers and sometimes friends, both subject to the tricks ...

A twentyfirstcentury corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenthcentury Scottish clan in this "brilliantly imagined" timetravel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain's mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past...

A Time Odyssey, Book 1
Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among today_x0092_s science fiction writers, it is awardwinning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed no...
Revised edition: This edition of Toward Yesterday includes editorial revisions.What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twentyfive years in the past For the ninebillion people of the year 2042 it's no longer a question ... it is a realityWhen a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded along...

A Novel
Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat offkilter: she constantly feels a...

Nomad of the Time Streams, Book 1
It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire a most equitable and just Empire, ruled by the beloved King Edward VIII. A new world order, with peace and prosperity for all under the law. Yet, moved by the politics of envy and perverse utopi...
A disillusioned major, a highwaywoman, and a war raging across time.It_x0092_s 1788 and Alice Payne is the notorious highway robber, the Holy Ghost. Aided by her trusty automaton, Laverna, the Holy Ghost is feared by all who own a heavy purse.It_x0092_s 1889 and Major Prudence Zuniga is once again attempting to change history to save history but seventy attemp...
Plucked from her life on the streets of postapocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean ? and humanity ? from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was ? with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel ...
Paleontologist Richard Leyster has achieved professional nirvana: a position with the Smithsonian Museum plus a groundbreaking dinosaur fossil site he can research, publish on, and learn from for years to come. There is nothing that could lure him away until a disturbingly secretive stranger named Griffin enters Leyster's office with an ice cool...
A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space_x0096_time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast storyspace on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they sh...

Discworld, Book 29
'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.'For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have fou...

Writing with a spare but powerful style which beautifully communicates his themes of loss, love, family, and the terrible inevitability of time, Green offers a novel that evokes the subtle passions of human existencea book that will haunt its readers with a longing for lost love and faded youth....

A Novel
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do w...

A Novel (Outlander)
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Time, Travel, RomanceFantasy, Historical lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”
Outlander, Book 6
A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18thcentury Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20thcentury wife, Claire.The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the ...

Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather_x0092_s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous pla...

A Novel
From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brotherinlaw, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few ye...

One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this standalone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel and one every SF fan should read.Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, H...
Discworld, Book 26
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater how much time does a codfish need) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock sta...
Montgomery/Taggert, Book 15
an alternate cover editions can be found here and hereNew York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a timetravel romance featuring a presentday heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an...

A Novel (Outlander)
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Time, Travel, RomanceFantasy, Historical lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blondhaired stranger who appeared out of nowhere _x0096_ the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later _x0096_ another bolt of lightning _x0096_ and the stranger returned, again to save L...
Ruby Red Trilogy, Book 1
Although I had never seen him before, I recognized him immediately. I'd have known his voice anywhere. This was the guy I'd seen on my last journey back in time.Or more precisely, the one who'd kissed my doppelganger while I was hiding behind the curtain in disbelief.Sixteenyearold Gwen lives with her extended and rather eccentric family in a...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Time, Travel, Dystopian, Fiction, Teen lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”
There_x0092_s one thing worse than dying. It_x0092_s coming back to do it again and again_x0085_ When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he...

Highlander, Book 1
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A Novel
George is a middlemanagement, middleclass, middleaged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crisis, but George gets a quirky, philosophical physics professor named Shiloh. Trapped with this mysterious misfit on his mor...

A Time Travel Romance (The Mists of Albion) (Volume 1)
A young girl steps back in time.As a child Paige Renner is no stranger to loneliness and sorrow. When her mother dies, she_x0092_s left with her griefstricken father, a man reduced to a shadow of his former self. But Paige discovers the perfect escape.A hidden and secret place, lost in time the medieval village of Caistley.Only Paige can enter the tin...

A Time Travel Romance (Volume 2)
Trapped in the wrong time, she needs a knight in shining armor, but this damsel in distress might be the real savior.A damsel in distress...With a day planner attached to her hip, the last thing Katy Tolson wants is a romance that threatens her wellordered life. She's set to marry the safebut blandguy, but something's not quite...right. A care...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...Cynical twentythreeyear old August doesn_x0092_t believe in much. She doesn_x0092_t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn_x0092_t believe ...

Bestselling romance writer Hayden Lane has found her soul mate or rather, created him: he's her latest fictional hero. And she's totally obsessed with him. Barely noticing when her reallife fiance breaks their engagement, she visits a psychic to learn more about him and is told that in a past life Hayden was Lady de Grey, a promiscuous woman o...

When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so...
It is 1970, and electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and even greedier fiancée steal his work and leave him penniless, and trick hi...
_x0093_I promise you have never read a story like this._x0094_ _x0097_Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...Shannon Moss is part o...

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved. Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenthcentury French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a centuryold post...

A Novel
_x0093_Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets_x0094_A dazzling novel about all the choic...
A young Neanderthal is transported from the ancient past to a future of brilliant and terrifying possibilities. He brings the spiritual beliefs of his people to this alien world, while maintaining a connection with the earth and the spirits of animals. The clash of prehistoric shamanic traditions with future Technology, makes for a gripping tale_x0097_the...

Time Series, Book 1
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Robert A. Heinlein
From the New York Times bestselling author of Starship Troopers and the first Grand Master of Science Fiction...Lazarus Long 19164272The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambit...
A Novel (River of Time Series)
What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different worldMost American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaelogist parents. Stuck among the rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany, on yet another hot, dust...
In this unforgettable novel for fans of One Day and The Time Traveler_x0092_s Wife, a young Isaac Newton falls in love with a girl living in modernday San Francisco, defying the laws of physics to forge a seemingly impossible connection.Andrea Louviere is seven years old the first time he appears. While she_x0092_s alone in her bedroom, practicing her beloved...
Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the 'favorite' books of many of the masters of the field, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped establish timetravel as a solid subgenre of science fiction. An indication of the influence and longevity of the bo...

Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she?s too late....
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