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

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

Eh. I'll assume you already have 1632 and Star Trek IV (and ST:TOS's "City on the Edge of Forever", plus the TNG episode[s] with Data's head) on your list, and suggest Moonheart by Charles de Lint.

I'll probably have more once I'm thinking about something entirely unrelated.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of 1632 (confess I'd never even heard of it); I've put an order in to the library.

Moonheart's a good notion -- I think I even have a copy in the house!