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

[stevesaus.livejournal.com]

The anthology Timeshares just came out this month. I'd recommend a few stories in it, because they don't just do the same old things.

Also I'd recommend "Babel Probe" by David D. Levine. I'm not sure where else it appeared, but it was in the Drabblecast episode #109: http://gardenstreet.org/drabblecastarchive/archive/101150_files/7e4ae3f38d2655962fafc2a6b9108572-77.php

[stevesaus.livejournal.com]

Oh, it should be noted that I do have a story in Timeshares - but I'd actually look at Allister Timm's "No Man's Land", Michael Stackpole's "By Our Actions", and Linda Baker's "Spoilers".

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I'll keep an eye out for Timeshares, although obviously I'm in general more likely to focus on material that has had a chance to become an established part of the field, or whatever.

(Thanks for your admission of a personal stake in the book! My assumption is that all the comments from "Anonymous" to this post represent authors plugging their own books. Not, of course, that there's any shame in that. I just wish they'd be a bit more upfront about it.)

I'll have to see if I can track down a text version of the Levine. I have difficulty properly appraising stuff that's read out loud.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I'll have to see if I can track down a text version of the Levine.

Found one: http://www.darkermatter.com/issue1/babel_probe.php

[stevesaus.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome!