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What are good time travel books? - Sigokat - 06-28-2011
KRW Wrote:Watchers will probably always be my favorite of Koontz. Lightning is number two, with a third place tie between Strangers and Cold fire. But I'm thinking they'd all be unreadable during mortar attacks.
Strangers was good as well and is Cold Fire a Christopher Snow book? I can't remember and am too lazy to look it up right now.
And yeah mortar attacks were such a hassle while trying to read or work or shower. That particular attack I remember like it was yesterday. I remember hearing a noise and thinking to myself "that sounds like a mortar" (you can tell they are close when you can hear the tail spin) and next thing I hear is BOOM...I was like "Oh fuck" and hit the floor in like less than a second LOL
I remember another time I was in the latrine trailer during an attack and I was like "hmmm...those sound close" So when I walked out I heard another one explode (it was about a block or so away) and I ran as fast as I could to the closest bunker. Guys in the bunker were like "Come on! Run! Hurry up!" That was a multiple mortar/rocket attack. I ran by butt off to that bunker which was on the other side of the makeshift parking lot.
Sorry for the hijack...back to time travel.
What are good time travel books? - KRW - 06-28-2011
sigokat Wrote:Strangers was good as well and is Cold Fire a Christopher Snow book? I can't remember and am too lazy to look it up right now.
And yeah mortar attacks were such a hassle while trying to read or work or shower. That particular attack I remember like it was yesterday. I remember hearing a noise and thinking to myself "that sounds like a mortar" (you can tell they are close when you can hear the tail spin) and next thing I hear is BOOM...I was like "Oh fuck" and hit the floor in like less than a second LOL
I don't think it was a Christopher Snow book, (I haven't read any of them, but I have been thinking about it) but if it is, it would have to be the first of them. It was the one with a UFO under a pond in front of a windmill. Of course that was the spin Koontz gave it after we learn the main character has a knack for making the best out of catastrophes. He also gave it another spin toward the end that essentially made the book.
As far as the mortars, I've got to hand it to you. My biggest concentration breaker is my wife yelling at me to take out the trash. But I still say "Oh fuck"and hit the floor in less than a second! LOL
What are good time travel books? - GCBurner - 06-28-2011
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
What are good time travel books? - webby - 06-28-2011
KRW Wrote:"Lightning" By Dean Koontz was really good. One of the better books he's written. IMO.
Agree - Lightning is very good.
KRW Wrote:Watchers will probably always be my favorite of Koontz. Lightning is number two, with a third place tie between Strangers and Cold fire. But I'm thinking they'd all be unreadable during mortar attacks.
Me too! Exactly! :eek6:
Brian Wrote:Off the top of my head:
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
A most excellent choice!
GCBurner Wrote:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Talk about classic time travel!
sigokat Wrote:Strangers was good as well and is Cold Fire a Christopher Snow book? I can't remember and am too lazy to look it up right now.
No, Snow came along later - Sieze the Night and Fear Nothing.
And here are a couple of contributions to the original question:
Time and Again by Jack Finney (from 1970)
The Paratime novels & short stories by H. Beam Piper (late 50s, early 60s)
What are good time travel books? - Damin J. Toell - 06-28-2011
KRW Wrote:Tim and place are synonymous.
Just quoting because I think this typo is cute.
Thanks to everyone for their recommendations in this thread, I love time travel stories.
What are good time travel books? - Alvin Fox - 06-28-2011
Another type of time travel that I enjoy more than physically traveling in time is where one's mind travels to a point in their own past and the person relives their life with the knowledge of what's happened. Think Groundhog Day. Stories like that would be Dean Koontz's "Strange Highways" and Ken Grimwood's Replay.
What are good time travel books? - cobalt - 06-29-2011
Diane Gabaldon writes The Outlander series. One of my favorite time travel plots. Claire Randall steps through a stone circle in the countryside and ends up in pre-civil war times.
They are even making a movie of the first book. I'll be there for that one. :yesnod:
What are good time travel books? - KRW - 06-29-2011
Damin J. Toell Wrote:Just quoting because I think this typo is cute.
Thanks to everyone for their recommendations in this thread, I love time travel stories.
Shit! 10 years of credibility shot because I can't tell the difference between Tim and time. (At least it was cute)
What are good time travel books? - The Mad American - 06-29-2011
cobalt79 Wrote:Diane Gabaldon writes The Outlander series. One of my favorite time travel plots. Claire Randall steps through a stone circle in the countryside and ends up in pre-civil war times.
They are even making a movie of the first book. I'll be there for that one. :yesnod:
My wife actually got me to read the first 3 books of that series (didn't hurt that my roots are as Scottish as they get). Not bad to be honest. Pretty good historical stuff and more geared to romance but all in all I didn't mind them.
I paid her back by getting her to read the Song of Fire and Ice series by George RR Martin.
What are good time travel books? - The Mad American - 06-29-2011
KRW Wrote:Shit! 10 years of credibility shot because I can't tell the difference between Tim and time. (At least it was cute)
You had 10 years of cred? Man. I really should be nicer to you shouldn't I?
