Top 10 criminally underrated time travel books

Explore the uncharted realms of time travel fiction with my list of 10 underrated gems! Dive into the enigmatic world of the best time travel novels, unveiling top time travel stories that redefine the genre. Discover the fusion of science fiction books and captivating narratives, offering unrivaled escapades through time.

This selection of the best sci-fi novels offers an eclectic mix, each a testament to visionary storytelling. Join me for an exploration through these sci-fi book recommendations. I'll dig into the complexities and nuances in each of these comprehensive sci-fi book reviews. Embark on a journey through time and space with these often overlooked, yet truly remarkable time travel adventures!

Time travel books mentioned:
00:00 Intro
00:35 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
01:54 Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
03:10 The Anubis Gates
03:55 The Accidental Time Machine
04:28 How to Stop Time
05:38 There Will Be Time
06:24 Time and Time Again
07:14 All Our Wrong Todays
08:15 The End of Eternity
09:19 Buying Time

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[Scottlp]

"Replay" is a classic. "To Say Nothing of the Dog: A novel of the Oxford Time Travel serie." Connie Willis and great fun.

[awebofstories]

Great suggestions! I don't think I've heard of any of them, so I'm off to check them out!

[KatAnne]

I loved How to Stop Time. Replay is one of my favorites. I read Oona Out of Order recently and loved it.

[gedren_y]

A time travel story I don't see get mentioned on BookTube (aside from Bookpilled mistaking it for historical fiction) is Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg. A rookie agent of the Time Service, Edward Davis, is sent back to ancient Egypt to find two missing members of the Service. It is a short read that explores how people of means can rationalize upending another's life to maintain their own standard of living.

[robertawalsh]

I enjoyed The Anubis Gate but my real favorite was Richard Matheson's 1975 time travel romance, Somewhere in Time.

[bartsbookspace]

Very interesting list!
I recently read and loved Paul Anderson’s Tau Zero, so I may add There will be Time to my tbr. Thanks. Btw, King’s 11/22/63 is my favorite time travel story.

[EvilRumina]

And here I was, thinking that no one but me had read The Anubis Gate! 😂

[thelibrarianofalexandria]

Thank you. I love time travel but some of these I havent heard of but sounds interesting.

[DuaneJasper]

Good stuff, glad to have found your travel. Amis' Time's Arrow would also have been a good one here

[smb-zfbd]

Hard to believe but the one time travel, intelligent, literary series rarely mentioned is Kage Bakers "The Company" series is a completely realized universe featuring a woman rescued as a child from the Inquisition to become a time traveler. (The Garden of Iden is the first book) Superb characters, great romance (through the ages) and as the series progresses the future becomes increasingly ominous.

[bookspin]

Interesting list. Time travel is always a fascinating theme with so much storytelling potential. I would also recommend Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time, which I recently read, in which a man is sent back in time from the 1980s to prehistoric times as part of secret government project, where he joins a small tribe of proto-humans.

[charlesspringer]

Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation, Larry Niven - short story. Time is the Simplest Thing, Simak. The Door into Summer, Heilein. A Wrinkle in Time. Downtiming the Night Side, Jack Chalker. Farmer has time traveling rabbits and teleporting foxes in one of his World of Tiers stories. In Creatures of Light and Darkness, Zelazny has characters who engage in combat using "Temporal Fugue".

[bookssongsandothermagic]

Awesome video - i've done a couple of time travel videos myself, and have a bunch of books to read so that I can do another one. You've given me more books to look out for! - I'm going to seek out the Poul Anderson one first. Great video - I've subscribed!

[Man-With-a-Hat-Who-Reads]

I love a good time travel novel. I have actually read a handful of these. Never heard of Pastwatch, so definitely have to check that one out. Love Matt Haig's stuff, including How to Stop Time. I have to recommend 'Time Travelers Never Die' by Jack McDevitt. Great video!

[skeller]

Thanks for these recommendations of books, specifically by authors that have other, more well known works (e.g., Joe Haldeman and The Forever War, which could have made this list, as well)!

I’m getting near retirement and have decided I might try to write a book that addresses the glaring problems with most time travel books. That is, it is a spacetime continuum we are in. In other words, if you simply traveled six months into the past, without traveling in space, you would end up in space with the earth on the opposite side of the sun from you. I haven’t seen one that addresses this conundrum. It will take some doing to make this idea into a usable story, it would be nice to see it addressed.

[psikeyhackr]

The Proteus Operation by James P Hogan

I avoided this for years because I avoid time travel books but this was way better than I expected.

Island in the Sea of Time by SM Stirling

The Nantucket trilogy. The entire island of Nantucket shifts to around 1200 BC and the islanders have to cope. No more IRS. YAY!

[andreadaleyutronebel]

I have a time machine. I travelled to 2027 and found out this channel will have a million subscribers

[mystyc]

Here's one I don't think was mentioned:
"The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold (1973)
The protagonist inherits a time travel belt and ends up spending his time with dozens of other versions of himself over the course of his lifetime.

[randyselleck]

Time and Again by Jack Finney is a great time travel story to check out, too.

[sandraschmidt]

Thanks for the recommodations - I knew some of them, noted others as to read. I also loved Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Looking forward to other videos from you.