Help Wanted!

[realthog]

I've been asked to write a chapter on time-travel stories for an academic book about the subgenres of science fiction, and naturally I've been making notes on books/stories I'd be wise to include. There are plenty of obvious candidates, from The Time Machine through A Connecticut Yankee to The Time Traveler's Wife, but I was wondering if some of you folk could help me by suggesting gems I might otherwise all too easily overlook.

Kids' and YA books are eligible alongside adult ones (hello, Ms L'Engle, and you too, Mr Kipling), but the books/stories must have some significance in terms of either fame or their bringing of something interesting and new to the time-travel corpus. I'm going to be an elitist prig and discount entirely novels produced as elements of TV, gaming or movie franchises, although by all means suggest relevant movies or games. Timeslip romances (like Richard Matheson's Somewhere in Time) are certainly within my remit.

I'd be really grateful for your help, and as a token of my appreciation will be only too glad to raise a glass of beer on your behalf . . . Hell, I'm no scrooge: make that two glasses of beer!

Comments

[marshallpayne1.livejournal.com]

"Vintage Season" (1946) by Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore is a favorite of mine. Silverberg liked it so much he wrote a sequel of sorts. I'm sure you know all this, just mentioning it. I love decadent time-travel stories, and to my knowledge this is the first.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely got the story on my list, but not the quasi-sequel. Is the latter any good or have anything new to say? I'm reluctant to commit myself to reading it only to discover it's one of Silverberg's plods.

[marshallpayne1.livejournal.com]

I'm reluctant to say as I read it over 20 years ago. I guess my point was that Silverberg thought enough of the story and Catherine Moore to do such a thing. Glad "Vintage Season" is on your list. And there's also "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by them. I think this one was more of a team effort from Moore and Kuttner, where VS was mostly Moore.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

And there's also "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by them.

Not to mention the True Fab movie based on it.

*beats head repeatedly against wall in hopes memory of movie will fade away*

[marshallpayne1.livejournal.com]

Never seen The Last Mimsy, but I've heard bad things about it. Hopefully I can leave it as such. ;-)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I've heard bad things about it

None of them are quite bad enough . . .