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Time Travel Books

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon book cover

Outlander

Author: Diana Gabaldon

Year: 1991

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The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a…

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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger book cover

The Time Traveler's Wife

Author: Audrey Niffenegger

Year: 2003

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A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.…

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Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov book cover

Pebble in the Sky

Author: Isaac Asimov

Year: 1950

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*Pebble in the Sky* is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic…

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells book cover

The Time Machine

Author: H. G. Wells

Year: 1895

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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living i…

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The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov book cover

The End of Eternity

Author: Isaac Asimov

Year: 1955

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The story of temporal engineers who meta-regulate the history of humanity through the centuries, eliminating risk, adventure, and space travel in the process. One man rebels in order to save the existence of someone he loves, and in the end the time…

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The Difference Engine by William Gibson book cover

The Difference Engine

Author: William Gibson

Year: 1990

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<Blockquote> 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary…

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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel book cover

Sea of Tranquility

Author: Emily St. John Mandel

Year: 1999

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Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenl…

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Down and out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow book cover

Down and out in the Magic Kingdom

Author: Cory Doctorow

Year: 2001

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**Read** *Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom* online at the **Internet Archive**. **From the Back Cover** "*He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow*." --Bruce Sterling, author of The…

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Many Waters (Time Quintet #4) by Madeleine L'Engle book cover

Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)

Author: Madeleine L'Engle

Year: 1986

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Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally inte…

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The ugly little boy by Isaac Asimov book cover

The ugly little boy

Author: Isaac Asimov

Year: 1991

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other title: The Ugly Little Boy

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