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The Hollow Lands

Michael Moorcock · 180 pages

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 186 pages

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

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The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley · 384 pages

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible -- for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and mo

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The Flight of the Horse

Larry Niven · 212 pages

The 5 Svetz stories are time travel (TT) stories. While time travel stories are often very entertaining and ingenious, many inconsistencies and paradoxes arise with even the simplest considerations. Niven wrote these stories to demonstrate how ridiculous time travel is. They are more than satire, they're hilarious. You won't find more fun TT stories anywhere! "Flash Crowd" is one of his best tel

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Doctor Who: Only Human

Gareth Roberts · 269 pages

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Back To The Future

George Gipe · 152 pages

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Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

Jacqueline Rayner · 256 pages

Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future a girl whose predictions are surprisingly ac

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In Times Like These

Nathan Van Coops · 356 pages

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Chrononauts

Mark Millar

"A satellite is blasted back through time, beaming pictures home to the present day of the America Civil War. Now it's time for the first manned mission"--Page 4 of cover.

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Mastodonia

Clifford D. Simak · 248 pages

Science Fiction Asa Steele was unprepared for the incredible events that began to unfold when Rila Elliot--a long-lost love--stepped out of the past and his faithful dog Bowser started loping into it through time trails he'd discovered in his own backyard. Rila's appearance was mere coincidence, but Bowser's retrieval of fresh dinosaur bones was as inexplicable as was the curious crater in Asa's

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Sky Coyote

Kage Baker · 304 pages

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Time Travelers Never Die

Jack McDevitt · 371 pages

Shel and his friend Dave journey through time in search of Shel's missing physicist-father, but make a devastating discovery that changes their lives forever when Shel violates their agreement not to visit the future.

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A Tale of Time City

Diana Wynne Jones · 336 pages

In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.

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All Our Wrong Todays

Elan Mastai · 400 pages

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Lest Darkness Fall

L. Sprague de Camp · 208 pages

Archeologist Martin Padway is visiting Rome in Italy. He is struck by lightning and catapulted back to Rome of the sixth century A.D. The Western Roman Empire has fallen to the Goths, and civilization teetering on the brink of falling into the Dark Ages. As Mysterious Martinus, can Martin win through the life and death perils of religious controversy, political intrigue and international diplomacy

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Making History

Stephen Fry · 416 pages

A history student travels back in time to prevent Hitler's birth by dropping an infertility pill into his father's beer. The scheme backfires when a more intelligent dictator comes to power, conquering more territory and developing the atom bomb ahead of the U.S. The student, Michael Young, gets back into his time machine to allow Hitler to be born after all. By the author of The Hippopotamus.

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The Technicolor Time Machine

Harry Harrison · 190 pages

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Back to the Future, Part 2

Craig Shaw Gardner · 251 pages

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The Cross-Time Engineer

Leo Frankowski

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The Accidental Time Machine

Joe Haldeman · 278 pages

Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light, his calibrator disappears and reappears one second later. In fact, every time Matt hits the reset button, the machine goes missing twelve times longer.

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain · 410 pages

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.

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Watch the Northwind Rise

Robert Graves · 254 pages

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Johnny and the Bomb

Terry Pratchett · 256 pages

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.

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