February SFFKIT - Time Travel

For February's SFFKIT we'll be reading books with Time Travel as a major or minor part.

Here are some examples:

The Travelers by Lee Hunnicutt
Primordial Earth by Baileigh Higgens
Mammoth by John Varley
Time Spike by Eric Flint
The Crossroads of Time by Andre Norton
Quest Crosstime by Andre Norton
Time Traders by Andre Norton
Mastodonia by Clifford D. Simak
A Door Into Time by Shawn Inmon
Pangaea: Exiles by Jeff Brackett

I am looking forward to reading The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything by John D. MacDonald.

I might catch up on the Outlander series and read Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

I see Paradox Bound by Peter Clines is tagged time travel, so I'm considering that

I got the audiobook of Time’s Children by D.B. Jackson for Christmas, so looking forward to that.

I think I'm leaning toward either The Time Traveler's Magic or The Psychology of Time Travel.

I will say, I highly recommend Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson--I read it last year and was blown away. It's a fast-paced and powerful YA time-travel romance about a gay black teen, and it is fantastic. I hadn't enjoyed either time travel or a YA read so much in a long time till I read that one.

Time Travel is one of my favorite genres. I read Just One Damned Thing After Another last year and so I will be continuing the series.

Thursday Next is a great series and I would put it under alternate history, but there is time travel in most of the books. Another one I loved last year is Connie Willis's Doomsday Book which is compelling but has dark moments, so some people might not enjoy it. Shadow of Night is the second book in the All Souls trilogy and has the main characters travel back to the Elizabethan age in England and other parts of Europe.

I've stacked Slaughterhouse-Five (by Kurt Vonnegut) for this month. I vacillated as to whether or not this is Science Fiction. In the end, I let the LT Classifications sway me ("Science Fiction" is the first label!)

Don't know what I'll read, but adding a recommendation for Kage Baker's Company series, and Adrian Tchaikovsky's The doors of Eden, as well as Children of time. The latter is not strictly time travel, but time plays an important role.

Great suggestions, all!
i just requested Doors of Eden from the library.
I'm also eager to dive into Tell the Bees That I am Gone.

I would recommend The Door Into Summer for a classic time travel story that's relatively short.

Connie Willis' Doomsday Book was mentioned, but other good ones by her include To Say Nothing of the Dog, which is simply a lot of fun, and the duology Blackout/All Clear.

Yesterday is History is a teen m/m romance with time travel - Andre gets a liver transplant and ends up bouncing back and forth between 1969 and the present day. He has one love interest in each time period as well.

I finished Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone and reflected that I've been reading the Outlander series for a bit over half my lifetime now. I've known Jamie and Claire longer than I've known my husband.

>12 soelo: sounds fun. Wishlisted

>11 ronincats: oh, I just saw this. I agree, The Door Into Summer is an entertaining read.

I'm determined to read mostly books that have been on my shelves for a while, was searching for something to read for this challenge, and then I saw it!

Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander

I don't take part in this challenge, but I always read through the threads to take possible BBs. This one is particularly interesting because I like time travel as a topic!

>13 susanna.fraser: Oh yes, me too! I read the first book aged 13, in 1999. Hard to believe. I started a reread, however, so I will need a few more years until I get to Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone. I am always happy when I see other LTers mentioning these books because I love them so much!

Starting Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Started The Time Traders by Andre Norton.
It ticked the boxes of time travel, own already and haven't read, and female author. I am using this years challenges to slowly work my way through my unread books.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold there is a cafe in Tokyo where you can go back in time. There are certain constraints, however:

Nothing you do will change events between then and now. Whatever has happened, will happen.

You cannot leave your seat in the cafe, so you can only meet people who have already been to the cafe.

You will return to the present when you have finished your coffee - and you MUST finish it before it gets cold.

Finished The Time Traveler's Magic and wrote a full review. I was decidedly unimpressed, and can't really imagine continuing with the series or even trying the author again. Full review written.

COMPLETED Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe, both by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Completed Ubik by Philip K. Dick, this is not a true time travel perhaps but there is the manipulation of past events to alter the present and also time regression.

The March thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/339607.

Done with A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor. I am enjoying the series and there is so much packed into each book.

I have completed The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything by John D. MacDonald and although this book is very different from what this author usually writes, I enjoyed it and his unusual look at time travel.

I finished To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.

Willis' Oxford Time Travel series are always fun adventures and this is no exception. This one takes us to Victorian England and has a lot of mysteries for the historians to solve. I liked the characters and the sense of time and place. The plot kept me guessing without being too technical with its time travel explanations. There were plenty of fun mentions of literary classics - but some of the discussions spoiled classic mysteries that I had hoped to read soon. Overall a fun read that was light enough to entertain, but deep enough to hold my interest.

I read Mastodonia.

This month's theme finally pushed me to read Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. I really enjoyed this and am glad to have finally read it.

>28 staci426:, perfect for time travel. I read it recently and really enjoyed it too.

I'd already read Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels and loved them all, but I hadn't read the short (actually, closer to novella length) story "Fire Watch" in the collection of the same name, Fire Watch. This story takes one of the historians to St. Paul's Cathedral in London during the time of the Blitz in 1940.

I also finished a short story published in 1941 by John Russell Fearn called "Science in Syracuse", in which Archimedes travels from Ancient Greece to 1960 New York City.

A little late, but got my time travel book in. It was Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson, involving time travel from post-eco-collapse world back to ancient Mesopotamia. A short, entertaining novel with something of a cliffhanger ending.