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I've been meaning to contribute to this group, so here are some of my favorites I haven't seen mentioned yet:

The Time Machine Did It This book is HILARIOUS, featuring wreckless time traveling by a very incompetent detective. This is from one of the writers of "The Simpsons," to give you an idea of the humor.

The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time The best? Probably not, but I think this has a good collection of short stories, especially the first one about a hole in space/time, and a nurse who helps wounded soldiers who come through it.

Up the Line by Robert Silverberg. This book is hard to find, but I liked the premise despite the, one might say, erotic paradox? Basically, be careful of who you have "relations" with, because you may in fact already be related.

Slaughterhouse-Five A classic. Has this one been mentioned yet? I figure anything with elements of time travel should qualify here.

Has anyone read these? It's hard to choose favorites, but I also really liked The Time Traveler's Wife and Replay, already mentioned in this group.

Hello fellow time travellers (boy, try saying that after a few glasses of wine...), good to see there are people keen to talk about this great sub-genre of science fiction.

I hadn't heard of The Time Traveler's Wife before, but it sounds interesting so I think I'll have to give it a go.

I'm currently reading K.A. Bedford's Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, an Aussie gem about an ex-cop turned time machine repair-man who becomes embroiled in a murder case and a battle for the very End of Time itself. About half-way through, and thoroughly enjoying it.

One of my favourites is Lord Kelvin's Machine, in which an accomplished scientist and detective (bit of a Rennaisance Man, you might say) travels back in time in an attempt to save his wife. Set in an alternative Victorian London, I love the period atmosphere and the machinations of the protagonists.

Here's one for you. Does Julian May's Saga of the Pliocene Exiles count as time travel fiction? Has anyone read it? If not, take a look at The Many-Coloured Land. She (yes, she) was my favourite author for many years, until the somewhat disappointing conclusion to her Galactic Milieu series.

And hey, can I even mention Doctor Who fiction here, or will that just end up in a public lynching? Is any of the new Doctor Who stuff even remotely decent? I saw something the Darksmith Legacy in a bookshop last week, and wondered if it was worth a read.

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I read Replay because it was mentioned on this group, thought it very good and a different way of exploring the idea of time travel, I'd certainly recommend it. Huw

I'll have to check out K.A. Bedford's book for sure.

Never read Doctor Who, but I've liked the new tv series so far!

Loved REplay!

The Outlander series (7 books with more in the pipeline) is probably the 800-pound gorilla in time travel, but I've noticed more time travel themes cropping up in romance and romantic suspense. The Outlander series is teetering on the edge of historical fiction rather than romance. My preference is for time travel that is written, marketed and sold as fantasy or science fiction. Does anyone have preferences in sub-genre?

Definitely sf. I've read a couple of genre romances because of the included time travel element, and it seemed *to me* just a gimmick to enable the 'fish out of water' story. I like a sense of using technology to travel through time and actually *do* something to either affect the 'currents' or struggle not to create affect.

Ok, I'm tired, sorry, don't know if that made sense. If not let me know and I'll try again tomorrow.

I loved Replay.

Two very good children's books that used time travel are 11 Birthdays and Crusade in Jeans.

The former is a fun intermediate that's reminiscient of the movie Groundhog Day, and is more the general idea I like.

The latter, for slightly older kids, just uses a time travel machine to send a modern kid back to the Children's Crusade, and doesn't really deal with paradoxes and currents and the future is past sorts of stuff.

I really enjoyed the following:

Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux

Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
Known as Somehwere in Time in the movies.

Time after Time by Alan Brennert

I'm much more a fan of what I would call "time travel advetures" than "time travel romances." In my opinion, a good time travel story can crossover into genres other than sci-fi. I have read great time travel stories that would be classified as young adult, historical fiction, mystery and fantasy.

TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow is one of my favorites. It's about three kids who are recruited to fix mistakes time travelers have made that could unravel time. There's also a big mystery as to the...ah, I'll let you read it and figure it out.
I am currently reading The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma. It's well written, with lots of detail. I am enjoying it quite a bit.
I've also read Found, the first in a time travel series by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

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The Time Machine Did It This book is HILARIOUS, featuring wreckless time traveling"
No wrecks? almost every TT story has the time machine wrecking or getting stolen...(removes tongue from cheek).

Funny though, I just posted Julian May's Many-coloured Land as one of my favorites in another thread. I've re-read the series several times. It just doesn't get old.

K55f wrote: ""
The Time Machine Did It This book is HILARIOUS, featuring wreckless time traveling"
No wrecks? almost every TT story has the time machine wrecking or getting stolen...(removes tongue from cheek)."

Where's a "wreckless" time machine when you need one? Past Adam should be ashamed of himself for such a horrible grammatical error. Check and mate to you, LOL!