![]() Take Octavia Butler’s Kindred - a true classic! Butler’s protagonist finds herself unwittingly thrust into the past at unpredictable moments in her life…an extremely perilous situation for a Black American woman who keeps finding herself in the antebellum South. ![]() ![]() If you’re interested in spending a little more time thinking about this, give the essay “Time Traveling Books: Historical Fiction or Speculative Fiction?” a read.Īnd while many time travel novels often feature complex mechanisms for time travel (such as Charles Yu’s fascinating How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe), not all time travel requires a time machine. This unique ability of time travel novels means that these books either harken back to the past or project into the future (or, sometimes, both). The Langoliers is a novella, one of four works published in the book Four Past Midnight. By Robert Silverberg This collection of short stories explores many common themes of science fiction, from time travel to space travel. This can be really thought provoking as well as entertaining. What I mean is, because they feature characters who travel between at least two different time periods, they inherently bring those time periods together. Time travel novels have the amazing ability to, well, straddle time.
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