Are there any stories about time-travellers ACTUALLY USING it for something and not learn life-lessons or asking deep philosophical questions, but a story about time travellers DOING something with it
11/22/63 by Stephen King is about attempting to stop the JFK assassination with time travel.
TarikeNimeshab on
Maybe **Mother of Learning**? It’s a fantasy novel in which the protagonist is trapped in a timeloop. He uses it to become stronger.
Tom_Bombadilio on
“This is how you lose the time war” by Amal El-Mohtar is a great little book that doesn’t, for once, deal with the onset of time travel but starts with time travel developed and an ongoing time war between two very different factions from different future time branches that humanity took, each trying to preserve their own time line while eradicating the other.
Its a little more fiction than science but the main focus of the book isn’t the technical details of the time travel aspect but the characters themselves and humanity as a whole. There is a philosophical side to it but you can say that about any well written book. I don’t know if it’s what you’re looking for but it is an excellent little story, probably can be read in one day, and I’d recommend it to anyone even the least bit intrigued by time travel.
It does involve drastic historical changes by the way of assassinations or going back to turn the tide in certain battles all in an attempt to prune deviant time lines and cause all lines to converge on the desired one so they are definitely using it to manipulate the timeline, but its more of a war stratagem thing vs say an individual or small group playing with the past.
Also the book is so unexpected in so many ways I assure there are no real spoilers in this comment. It’s unlike any book I’ve ever read in such a great way.
testmf on
You could try the ‘Oxford Time Travel Series’ by Connie Willis : Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing About The Dog, Blackout, All Clear.
The plots are very good and the time travelers are travelling with a purpose (which can be more or less world changing or seemingly futile).
testmf on
There is the ‘Change Wars’ series by Fritz Leiber where the goal of the time travellers is to change the course of history and so to ensure that their faction ‘wins’ the war.
cultmoviesandactors on
11/22/63 by Stephen king.
Timeline by Michael Crichton
PrometheanSeagull on
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Pantologist_TX59 on
Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
thisisausergayme on
Chronicles of St Mary by Jodi Taylor, I think
stevo2011 on
I recommend, Nick Jones’ Joseph Bridgeman series starting with Book 1 called “And Then She Vanished”; and also Blake Crouch’s books “Recursion” and “Dark Matter”.
Su_1974 on
11/22/63 Stephen king
SwampPotato on
Bookmarking this because my boyfriend loves this stuff.
flux_and_flow on
I enjoyed An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim.
KatlinelB5 on
The Saga of the Exiles by Julian May is about people (mostly misfits) travelling through a one-way time gate in France back to prehistoric France.
The 1632 series by Eric Flint is about a small American town transported through time and space to 17th century Germany. Much culture shock on both sides.
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11/22/63 by Stephen King is about attempting to stop the JFK assassination with time travel.
Maybe **Mother of Learning**? It’s a fantasy novel in which the protagonist is trapped in a timeloop. He uses it to become stronger.
“This is how you lose the time war” by Amal El-Mohtar is a great little book that doesn’t, for once, deal with the onset of time travel but starts with time travel developed and an ongoing time war between two very different factions from different future time branches that humanity took, each trying to preserve their own time line while eradicating the other.
Its a little more fiction than science but the main focus of the book isn’t the technical details of the time travel aspect but the characters themselves and humanity as a whole. There is a philosophical side to it but you can say that about any well written book. I don’t know if it’s what you’re looking for but it is an excellent little story, probably can be read in one day, and I’d recommend it to anyone even the least bit intrigued by time travel.
It does involve drastic historical changes by the way of assassinations or going back to turn the tide in certain battles all in an attempt to prune deviant time lines and cause all lines to converge on the desired one so they are definitely using it to manipulate the timeline, but its more of a war stratagem thing vs say an individual or small group playing with the past.
Also the book is so unexpected in so many ways I assure there are no real spoilers in this comment. It’s unlike any book I’ve ever read in such a great way.
You could try the ‘Oxford Time Travel Series’ by Connie Willis : Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing About The Dog, Blackout, All Clear.
The plots are very good and the time travelers are travelling with a purpose (which can be more or less world changing or seemingly futile).
There is the ‘Change Wars’ series by Fritz Leiber where the goal of the time travellers is to change the course of history and so to ensure that their faction ‘wins’ the war.
11/22/63 by Stephen king.
Timeline by Michael Crichton
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Chronicles of St Mary by Jodi Taylor, I think
I recommend, Nick Jones’ Joseph Bridgeman series starting with Book 1 called “And Then She Vanished”; and also Blake Crouch’s books “Recursion” and “Dark Matter”.
11/22/63 Stephen king
Bookmarking this because my boyfriend loves this stuff.
I enjoyed An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim.
The Saga of the Exiles by Julian May is about people (mostly misfits) travelling through a one-way time gate in France back to prehistoric France.
The 1632 series by Eric Flint is about a small American town transported through time and space to 17th century Germany. Much culture shock on both sides.
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Lightning by Dean Koontz