I’m looking for a book about time travel, paradoxes and plot twists
Something like P.K.Dick's novels, or the movie 'primer'.. where complexities, paradoxes and uncertainties of time travel and unexpected twists lead the development of the story.
Thanks!
My favorite is **Millennium** by John Varley. It’s a short novel that packs in nearly every established time travel trope without necessarily feeling that way. Best of all, the time travelers have absolutely no idea whatsoever how time travel works – they’re from the far, far future, and the “gate” was created by a civilization preceding their own that mysteriously collapsed thousands of years before. The complete mystery there factors big into the storyline as the paradoxes start to pile up. This novel is a love letter to time travel stories.
First runner up is **All Our Wrong Todays** by Elan Mastai. Chronically depressed dude in a utopian 2016 (complete with flying cars and unlimited clean energy) gets involved in a time travel experiment and accidentally destroys utopia, depositing him in a dystopian alternate 2016 – our own world – where unlimited energy was never discovered. Now he’s trying to figure out if there’s any way to get his world back.
I could list a dozen more, but those are my two current favorites. I’d also chuck in Robert Charles Wilson’s **A Bridge of Years**, just because it’s a fun read.
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Oh, you’re asking up after my favorite subgenre.
My favorite is **Millennium** by John Varley. It’s a short novel that packs in nearly every established time travel trope without necessarily feeling that way. Best of all, the time travelers have absolutely no idea whatsoever how time travel works – they’re from the far, far future, and the “gate” was created by a civilization preceding their own that mysteriously collapsed thousands of years before. The complete mystery there factors big into the storyline as the paradoxes start to pile up. This novel is a love letter to time travel stories.
First runner up is **All Our Wrong Todays** by Elan Mastai. Chronically depressed dude in a utopian 2016 (complete with flying cars and unlimited clean energy) gets involved in a time travel experiment and accidentally destroys utopia, depositing him in a dystopian alternate 2016 – our own world – where unlimited energy was never discovered. Now he’s trying to figure out if there’s any way to get his world back.
I could list a dozen more, but those are my two current favorites. I’d also chuck in Robert Charles Wilson’s **A Bridge of Years**, just because it’s a fun read.
Great Work of Time by John Crowley