Time Travel in the Science Fiction Collection
What is time? Is time travel possible? For centuries, these questions have intrigued mystics, philosophers, scientists, and now authors! Try these suggestions…
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Description: Pursued by Japanese battleships, the USS Walker, a destroyer under the command of Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, tries to lose the enemy by heading into a storm, only to become trapped in a primitive alternate world, populated by strange creatures.
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Description: Two cyborgs of the Company journey back in time to 1996 San Francisco to search for Mendoza, a banished fellow cyborg, to uncover some dangerous secrets about what the Company does with cyborgs it no longer wants in the field.
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Description: Reid Malenfant has failed in his bid to become an astronaut, but he redoubles his efforts when it becomes clear that the future of the universe depends on it.
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Description: In a not-too-distant future that is not quite ours, there has been a major scientific breakthrough, a way to open windows into the past, permitting historical researchers to view but not participate in the events of the past.
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Description: During her summer vacation, teacher Shannon Parker, after purchasing a Celtic vase, finds herself transported to the world of Partholon where she becomes the Goddess Incarnate of Epona and must find a way to return to Oklahoma before war erupts – and she is married off to a centaur.
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Description: For eons, Earth has been under observation by beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind- until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline.
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Description: Alma Lewin, one of the monitors charged with protecting the integrity of the future from time travelers, turns renegade in order to avert the horrors of Auschwitz, which brings her mentor, Gaspar James, on her heels.
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Description: A mysterious accident in time causes twenty-first-century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia.
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Description: A mathematician falls in love with a girl from the past and tries desperately to join her by solving the mysteries of time travel, while a young woman rescues the sole surviving clone of Hawaiian king Kamehameha.
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Description: Sir Richard Francis Burton investigates a strange apparition called Spring Heeled Jack that has been assaulting young women around London.
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Description: Surviving with her family members for four hundred years after the events of The Tempest, Miranda enlists her siblings in a search for their missing father after receiving a warning about ancient demons who would harness their powers.
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Description: When Kit Livingstone learns that Britain’s “ley lines” are not legends but pathways to other worlds, he’s determined to find a map tattooed on a piece of skin in order to travel to the dangerous realms.
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Description: Shel and his friend Dave journey through time in search of Shel’s missing physicist-father Michael, but make a devastating discovery that changes their lives forever when Shel violates their agreement not to visit the future.
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Description: Scientists from three different civilizations, separated in time by hundreds of thousands of years, investigate a mysterious indestructible canal on Earth, while a plot is hatched to overthrow the world government of one of the civilizations, using a weapon that can destroy anything–except the canal.
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Description: Sent back in time, Sam Vimes encounters a younger version of himself and gets mistaken for his former commander, a situation that prompts him to change the outcome of a rebellion.
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Description: After descendants of a nuclear apocalypse return to Earth in an attempt to reconstruct the past, they discover the records of the wandering Jews of Judea, Palestine, and Israel, and an account of the Holocaust.
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Description: A paleontologist who discovers the secret of time travel is initially thrilled at the prospect of conducting research on live dinosaurs, but his frequent trips into the past soon begin to have negative consequences on the present.
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Description: Stumbling upon a perfectly frozen woolly mammoth in the northern wilds of Canada, a mammoth hunter is stunned when he also finds the mummified body of a Stone Age man, dating from around 12,000 years ago, wearing a modern-day wristwatch.
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Description: Captured by a technologically advanced alien race, a group of medieval English knights gains power and experience as savage interstellar mercenaries, all the while planning for the day when they will rise up and reclaim the glory and freedom that is their destiny.
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Description: When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone’s schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II.
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Description: In a world transformed by time-travel technology, counselor Charles Yu searches for the father who invented time travel and vanished, a quest marked by quirky pseudo-companions.
Some titles may be available in other formats (large type, audiobook, downloadable, etc). A staff member can help you to locate other versions.
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2011