You should check out The End of Eternity by Asimov. An insanely beautiful story about an institution of time travellers who live outside of time trying to prevent wars in humanity's history by changing small things and relying on the butterfly effect combined with the genius concept of social inertia. It turns out it's the base and kind of a "prequel" of all of Asimov's universe (Robots, the Space Empire and Foundation books) and it's my favourite book of all time.
Check out Replay by Ken Grimwood? A guy dies of a heart attack at age 43 and finds himself back in his college dorm room with all his memories intact and in his 21 year old body. When he reaches 43 in this iteration he dies again and wakes up back in college. He meets a couple of other people who are having the same thing happen to them who handle the situation quite differently.
@@bookssongsandothermagic I second and third this. I love time travel, particularly time loop stuff. This is the best by far - It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It's a quick read that will leave you wanting more, but knowing that no more is needed.
I cut my sci-fi-loving teeth on Ray Bradbury and "Sound of Thunder" was one I've definitely read. It was fantastic! Most of these other stories are either on my TBR or I hope they will be in the future, "11/22/63" being one I've put off for too long. I'm so incredibly glad you've read "Recursion"! It's one of my favorite books of all time. I'm going to move "Dark Matter" up on my list which I've had on my digital TBR for an age!
Gareth, some time travel books that I enjoyed are Time & Again by Jack Finney and two that might fall in more of the romance category are the first 3 Outlander books only by Diana Gablon & The Time Travelers Wife. The tv shows for both are excellent too. I just put the Sound of Thunder on my tbr as Alex@ Frankfiction mentioned it in your comment section too and I think she is the “bees”knees!
Thank you for naming Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book". To Say Nothing of the Dog" is a great, and fun read. Sort of a cross between Ray Bradbury and Jane Austin.
Nice list! Loved Recursion and anything by Crouch, Dark Matter still my favorite. H.G. Wells is a classic I have to read again.11-22-63 is possibly my favorite King book.
Interesting selection. Going back to the time of the Black Death would be scary. I enjoy the time travel trope. Behold the Man was one of my favorites. There is also a series of Time Travel books by Nathan Van Coops, which are a lot of fun, especially The Chronothon: A Time Travel Adventure... where there is a game played by a group of time travellers where they race through various points of history and have to pick up various artifacts or do tasks.
I absolutely LOVED time travel books! I mean *love*. Love. Books are still a thing in the future. What future? There’s nothing to see here... in the present. The same present you’re in. We’re in.
Frankowski Conrad series, Robert Young The Dandelion Girl, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. Two first books have several time travel stories. Connie Willis Oxford series, Heinlein All You Zombies.
Chiang wrote another time travel story collected in his first collection, The Story of Your Life and Others. It's the title story (also the basis for the film Arrival).
I couldn’t agree more! I absolutely loved The Story of Your Life and Others! All the stories were great, and a few really wonderful. I am going to go back and pull that one off the shelf to reread. Thanks for the reminder
Do you only explore paper publications in a digital age? Darby was asking if this was just a phase before Webbling exposed the rest of the Cosmos as it is on the Tru-ether lines that let us communicate better than the first Cybercafe I owned in Austin long ago. There, I got to see what would one day come to be and learned how it could change the game to know, then saw my son be taken in and eaten by it all. He passed in Paris, France, as predicted in the Game Darby came to play for a life. Fascinating how the world writes of what is to come. Started 50 years ago after the suicide of one writer who would spend a lifetime producing that virus, WUB, in a form that could be tasty enough to feed humans all around. Rubbles, an Earthworm for disguise, let Shiva help his friend real-Ize what he came to do. Works for Mii, how about you. Wibblry & WUB will get to you if it must end up in paperbacks. Trust Mii, that's what Wii do. Kudos to you, too. All things in their time for perspicuity to unfold the things that you will see when synchronicities abound. Is that profound, Sumerian Simplicity unwound, or as Wii say today, Unzipped.
I loved King's 11/22/63, but the whole Yellow Card Man was totally unneeded. And like most of King's stuff, it goes up and down but the detail is excellent. Time and Again by Jack Finney is good, but mainly due to the concept of how he time travels. It is a little too detailed, but I did enjoy it. Replay by Ken Grimwood is the best of all. You will see where books like "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' got their seed, since it is a time-loop story. Intersting fact: Ken Grimwood died at 59 of a heart attack. I like to think that he is living his own book. ;)
I have gifted about 15 copies of Replay to people. And you really have to be a certain age to read it - I was 37 when I picked it up. I have read or listened to it every year or two since - I am now 52.
I agree that Replay is very special. 59 is a young age to go sadly. I like the extra things King put in the book; definitely not needed but enhances the book for me. Thanks loads for the comment.
@@bookssongsandothermagic I liked the undercurrent of time pushing back, just not the personification of it. Never liked the whole Yellow Card Man bit - Same with the religious aspect to The Stand. I did see a King interview about his research into 1963. I loved the idea that food would just taste better; made me want to time travel just to eat! :D Edit: If someone reads this and creates a time traveling foodie, I expect a shout out :D
@@bookssongsandothermagic Glad you read Replay. I am an Aussie, but I live in the US. Florida, as it happens. I've been to all the places in Replay, so that also adds to it.
thanks loads - I've been reading some other time travel books in preparation and buying more to get a good, interesting bunch to recommend next - so I think it will be around the Christmas holiday sometime.
Oh absolutely - of course, most of science fiction isn’t possible. I watched a fantastic lecture about exactly that by Brian Cox once, and he explained it brilliantly.
@@bookssongsandothermagic Oh yes Prof Cox from Manchester. I think it's a madly exciting time in theoretical physics. I mean what's going these days is even more fantastical that science fiction. I can see a new generation of sci fi writers producing mind blowing stories based on current knowledge. I mean the latest Noble Price experimentally proving Bells' theory on Quantum entanglement and proving Einstein wrong just keeps me up at night. A non-local universe where information can travel instantly?!?! Can the future have an effect on the present? Worm holes, multiverse, dark matter and energy and string theory. Wow. I often think about the likes of Stephen hawkings and Einstein.....they were brilliant but all died unhappy knowing they don't really know everything about the physical universe. Only Newton died smug thinking he figured it all out and there was nothing much more to know.
@@creativesource3514 haha we'll always discover new things and new understandings - love what you say here about the new discoveries in Physics. I didn't know that at all.
Great recs! I absolutely loved the two books by Connie Willis, which is great because that means we probably have similar tastes, so I can’t wait to check out some of the others you put forth. Thanks!
you must check COWL by Neal Asher. a war on the continuum among sects of evolved humans and the ultimate genetic construct. one of the best of the genre that i have stumbled on.
You might want to look at two sequels to THE TIME MACHINE: Christopher Priest's THE SPACE MACHINE and Steven Baxters THE TIME SHIPS. I think in Mark Twain's time the 'Ancien Regime' of Arthurian feudalism isn't that different from some of the regimes still prevailing in Europe then. It was only a few decades since the suppression of the revolutions in Europe in 1848 and the American Civil War which tried to ensure the survival of the aristocratic slave state of the South was even closer. I loved TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG but I found most of Willis' other books very patchy indeed.
11-22-63 read it 2 times, very repetitive for no real reason, horror for no real reason, crappy ending, even his son thought up a better ending and he actually agreed but the book was already published
@@bookssongsandothermagic the guy could've easily had saved her face and taken her back with him...but chose not to, kinda sick if you ask me, not something a regular person would've done. I read most of kings books always expecting something good the only book I liked was Langoliers
@@bookssongsandothermagic true, I think I lost respect in him in the book 'The Libarain' where some pervert convinced some kid who was returning his overdue book back to the library and this pervert tells the kid he was there to collect the fine and took him behind the bushes and butt. f'd him very graphically several times...not sure how thats actually legal but King got away with it
You should check out The End of Eternity by Asimov. An insanely beautiful story about an institution of time travellers who live outside of time trying to prevent wars in humanity's history by changing small things and relying on the butterfly effect combined with the genius concept of social inertia.
It turns out it's the base and kind of a "prequel" of all of Asimov's universe (Robots, the Space Empire and Foundation books) and it's my favourite book of all time.
Check out Replay by Ken Grimwood? A guy dies of a heart attack at age 43 and finds himself back in his college dorm room with all his memories intact and in his 21 year old body. When he reaches 43 in this iteration he dies again and wakes up back in college. He meets a couple of other people who are having the same thing happen to them who handle the situation quite differently.
It's on my pile of time travel books that I'm reading in the next little while to prepare for a 2nd video - bought it a few months back. Can't wait.
That's my favorite
@@bookssongsandothermagic I second and third this. I love time travel, particularly time loop stuff. This is the best by far - It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It's a quick read that will leave you wanting more, but knowing that no more is needed.
The fifthteen lives of Harry august was fantastic
It was. I recommend this book every chance I get, and the feedback has always been great. Absolutely amazing story.
I cut my sci-fi-loving teeth on Ray Bradbury and "Sound of Thunder" was one I've definitely read. It was fantastic! Most of these other stories are either on my TBR or I hope they will be in the future, "11/22/63" being one I've put off for too long. I'm so incredibly glad you've read "Recursion"! It's one of my favorite books of all time. I'm going to move "Dark Matter" up on my list which I've had on my digital TBR for an age!
Gareth, some time travel books that I enjoyed are Time & Again by Jack Finney and two that might fall in more of the romance category are the first 3 Outlander books only by Diana Gablon & The Time Travelers Wife. The tv shows for both are excellent too. I just put the Sound of Thunder on my tbr as Alex@ Frankfiction mentioned it in your comment section too and I think she is the “bees”knees!
@@heidi6281 I think the same of you, Heidi 😁♥️
Thank you for naming Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book". To Say Nothing of the Dog" is a great, and fun read. Sort of a cross between Ray Bradbury and Jane Austin.
I’ve got To Say Nothing Of the Dog to read….really looking forward to it. Thanks for the feedback and support.
Nice list! Loved Recursion and anything by Crouch, Dark Matter still my favorite. H.G. Wells is a classic I have to read again.11-22-63 is possibly my favorite King book.
Interesting selection. Going back to the time of the Black Death would be scary. I enjoy the time travel trope. Behold the Man was one of my favorites. There is also a series of Time Travel books by Nathan Van Coops, which are a lot of fun, especially The Chronothon: A Time Travel Adventure... where there is a game played by a group of time travellers where they race through various points of history and have to pick up various artifacts or do tasks.
I absolutely LOVED time travel books!
I mean *love*. Love. Books are still a thing in the future. What future? There’s nothing to see here... in the present. The same present you’re in. We’re in.
Gotta remember to go back and edit that.
Frankowski Conrad series, Robert Young The Dandelion Girl, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. Two first books have several time travel stories. Connie Willis Oxford series, Heinlein All You Zombies.
I recommend Felix J. Palma's Victorian Trilogy: The Mapa of Time, The Map of The Sky, The Map of Chaos.
i enjoyed the Time Machine by HG Wells a lot when I read it back for my A Levels. The Ray Bradbury sounds excellent.
Thanks for the comment! You can’t ever go wrong with Bradbury anyway.
I like Jack Finney's books. My favorite Dean Koontz book is Lightning. The classics are great, but there are other great books out there.
totally agree
Nice list, will have to check out Exhalation. +1 on 11/22/63, but I also really like Replay by Ken Grimwood and Time and Time Again by Ben Elton.
those last two are on my shelves too - hoping to do a follow up video during the Summer
Chiang wrote another time travel story collected in his first collection, The Story of Your Life and Others. It's the title story (also the basis for the film Arrival).
yeah I love that so much - both books are two of the best books I've ever read.
I couldn’t agree more! I absolutely loved The Story of Your Life and Others! All the stories were great, and a few really wonderful. I am going to go back and pull that one off the shelf to reread. Thanks for the reminder
Do you only explore paper publications in a digital age? Darby was asking if this was just a phase before Webbling exposed the rest of the Cosmos as it is on the Tru-ether lines that let us communicate better than the first Cybercafe I owned in Austin long ago. There, I got to see what would one day come to be and learned how it could change the game to know, then saw my son be taken in and eaten by it all. He passed in Paris, France, as predicted in the Game Darby came to play for a life. Fascinating how the world writes of what is to come. Started 50 years ago after the suicide of one writer who would spend a lifetime producing that virus, WUB, in a form that could be tasty enough to feed humans all around. Rubbles, an Earthworm for disguise, let Shiva help his friend real-Ize what he came to do. Works for Mii, how about you. Wibblry & WUB will get to you if it must end up in paperbacks. Trust Mii, that's what Wii do. Kudos to you, too. All things in their time for perspicuity to unfold the things that you will see when synchronicities abound. Is that profound, Sumerian Simplicity unwound, or as Wii say today, Unzipped.
I loved King's 11/22/63, but the whole Yellow Card Man was totally unneeded. And like most of King's stuff, it goes up and down but the detail is excellent. Time and Again by Jack Finney is good, but mainly due to the concept of how he time travels. It is a little too detailed, but I did enjoy it. Replay by Ken Grimwood is the best of all. You will see where books like "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' got their seed, since it is a time-loop story. Intersting fact: Ken Grimwood died at 59 of a heart attack. I like to think that he is living his own book. ;)
I have gifted about 15 copies of Replay to people. And you really have to be a certain age to read it - I was 37 when I picked it up. I have read or listened to it every year or two since - I am now 52.
I agree that Replay is very special. 59 is a young age to go sadly. I like the extra things King put in the book; definitely not needed but enhances the book for me. Thanks loads for the comment.
@@bookssongsandothermagic I liked the undercurrent of time pushing back, just not the personification of it. Never liked the whole Yellow Card Man bit - Same with the religious aspect to The Stand. I did see a King interview about his research into 1963. I loved the idea that food would just taste better; made me want to time travel just to eat! :D
Edit: If someone reads this and creates a time traveling foodie, I expect a shout out :D
@@bookssongsandothermagic Glad you read Replay. I am an Aussie, but I live in the US. Florida, as it happens. I've been to all the places in Replay, so that also adds to it.
@@dmcfee you’ve given me an idea for a time travel discussion tag!
Wow really enjoyed this! When is the second part coming?
thanks loads - I've been reading some other time travel books in preparation and buying more to get a good, interesting bunch to recommend next - so I think it will be around the Christmas holiday sometime.
Intriguing list, good to come across this, mightn't be so good for wallet though!🙄
The thing is time travel into the past in not possible. Unlike accelerating in time into the future relative to somebody else moving slower in time.
Oh absolutely - of course, most of science fiction isn’t possible. I watched a fantastic lecture about exactly that by Brian Cox once, and he explained it brilliantly.
@@bookssongsandothermagic Oh yes Prof Cox from Manchester.
I think it's a madly exciting time in theoretical physics. I mean what's going these days is even more fantastical that science fiction. I can see a new generation of sci fi writers producing mind blowing stories based on current knowledge.
I mean the latest Noble Price experimentally proving Bells' theory on Quantum entanglement and proving Einstein wrong just keeps me up at night. A non-local universe where information can travel instantly?!?! Can the future have an effect on the present? Worm holes, multiverse, dark matter and energy and string theory. Wow.
I often think about the likes of Stephen hawkings and Einstein.....they were brilliant but all died unhappy knowing they don't really know everything about the physical universe. Only Newton died smug thinking he figured it all out and there was nothing much more to know.
@@creativesource3514 haha we'll always discover new things and new understandings - love what you say here about the new discoveries in Physics. I didn't know that at all.
Has anyone read "A Gift of Time " by Jerry Merritt? It's fantastic!
I’ll look that one up!
Thanks, really enjoyed that. How do I claim back the £15 that you made me spend on the books I hadn't read that you made me want to buy?
hahaha yeah I know what you mean - I am planning another follow up one later in the Summer - there are so many great books out there!!
Great recs! I absolutely loved the two books by Connie Willis, which is great because that means we probably have similar tastes, so I can’t wait to check out some of the others you put forth. Thanks!
The seedling stars......by James Blish...
could you do a military one time travel
You should add Jack Finney's Time and Again. There are other books in the series but the first one is the best.
I absolutely agree. Every list of time travel books omits this gem. The twist ending is one of the best in all literature.
you must check COWL by Neal Asher. a war on the continuum among sects of evolved humans and the ultimate genetic construct.
one of the best of the genre that i have stumbled on.
You might want to look at two sequels to THE TIME MACHINE: Christopher Priest's THE SPACE MACHINE and Steven Baxters THE TIME SHIPS.
I think in Mark Twain's time the 'Ancien Regime' of Arthurian feudalism isn't that different from some of the regimes still prevailing in Europe then. It was only a few decades since the suppression of the revolutions in Europe in 1848 and the American Civil War which tried to ensure the survival of the aristocratic slave state of the South was even closer.
I loved TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG but I found most of Willis' other books very patchy indeed.
I'll look into those! Thanks!
Hi
11-22-63 read it 2 times, very repetitive for no real reason, horror for no real reason, crappy ending, even his son thought up a better ending and he actually agreed but the book was already published
I don't know about the alternative ending that you mention, but I liked the one in the book. I genuinely think it's one of the best King books...
@@bookssongsandothermagic the guy could've easily had saved her face and taken her back with him...but chose not to, kinda sick if you ask me, not something a regular person would've done. I read most of kings books always expecting something good the only book I liked was Langoliers
@@jamiebennett6354 fair enough - he doesn't suit everyone.
@@bookssongsandothermagic true, I think I lost respect in him in the book 'The Libarain' where some pervert convinced some kid who was returning his overdue book back to the library and this pervert tells the kid he was there to collect the fine and took him behind the bushes and butt. f'd him very graphically several times...not sure how thats actually legal but King got away with it
@@jamiebennett6354 The Library Policeman - I haven't read it but looked it up after you mentioned it. I don't fancy reading that one.