Time Travel discussion

Hello everyone,
I saw in a forum somewhere that someone wrote this
"A LOVE FOR ETERNITY; it's actually a time travel, where the heroine travels back to 1955".
As this is one of my favorite time periods,I would love to find this book,but since no author was mentioned,I have had no luck finding it.

It sounds like a romance.

Is anyone familiar with this book,and any others set in this time period?

Thank you so much for any suggestions. :]

Hi Christine. It appears to be a short story which was why its tricky to find but here you go, i think this is what you are after. Its available on Kindle.


A Love for Eternity

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00545L...

Sounds like a nice "second chance" romance. 1955 is a great setting, which i always associate with a certain Marty Mcfly in Hill Valley with Mr Sandman belting out on a vinyl record player :)

LOL,yes,I also think of 'Back To The Future' and great music in association with the 50's.

Thank you for finding what I believe is the answer.I'm so surprised that you were able to.

Would you or anyone know of any full-length novels where there is time travel back 'to' or 'from' the 50's?

In Stephen King's time travel novel 11/22/63, the main character travels back to the late 1950s and spends an extended period of time there as he waits for a rather significant historical event to occur in 1963 so that he can try and stop it.

John wrote: "In Stephen King's time travel novel 11/22/63, the main character travels back to the late 1950s and spends an extended period of time there as he waits for a rather significant historical event to ..."

Thank you for responding but I don't read Stephen King. :[

I'm not a big Stephen King fan either. But I liked this one because it isn't really classified as horror like so many of his other books. There are only a couple of violent scenes. Otherwise, it is really about future man enjoying the simpler life of the 1950s/60s. My only criticism is that it gets a little bogged down at times with all of the historical facts leading up to Kennedy's assassination.

John wrote: "I'm not a big Stephen King fan either. But I liked this one because it isn't really classified as horror like so many of his other books. There are only a couple of violent scenes. Otherwise, it is really about future man enjoying the simpler life of the 1950s/60s. "

The idea of the 1950s actually being a simpler time would make for a good discussion somewhere, I'm sure. Most people who remember it and talk about it fondly were children then, and it is a certainty that for most children life was indeed simpler because they were sheltered from most of the harshness of the world by actual, grown-up adults. But was it really a simpler time for adults?--Korean War, Civil Rights riots, job-killing automation, inflation, the Cold War, the growing Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned about, those damned beatniks, etc, etc....

Re:John,interesting POV.Both of my parents and all grandparents are deceased so I'm not able to discuss it with them,however I have no doubt that they would say it was a much 'safer' world then than now.Able to leave your car unlocked anywhere,even houses unlocked, and first floor windows open!It was safe for kids to play unattended outside,and to walk to and from school,or other places.

That is not possible anywhere in America now! :[

You're right, Christine. "America" (all of North America) is a much scarier place than it was 50 years ago. Watching it deteriorate hasn't been easy. However, the difference between big city and smaller is still wide. A number of years ago, I remember our daughter-in-law from Chicago being concerned about our son walking our dog (a 60 pound Samoyd mix) in the neighbourhood. And when my wife said that the last bear report had been the previous summer, she was more concerned about gangs and aggression. Nope, not in Northern Ontario, the gangs are wild animals.

Mika wrote: "I found two books called A Love For Eternity on Google plus a lot about a Twilight story. Neither of the books I found looked like the right one, although one had time travel back to the 1800's.

T..."

Just so you know, we found the book Christine was looking for in the second post :) Turned out to be a short story.

Mika wrote: "That's one thing I liked about King's book. He depicted the difficult issues that people were dealing with and pointed out that if Kennedy hadn't been shot, things might have got a lot worse..."

Kennedy was shot in 1963, well after the '50s ended. But my opinion is just the opposite from King's; things went drastically downhill during the Johnson administration, partly because of his obsession with "wars": the War on Poverty and the war of attrition with Viet Nam. I don't think Kennedy would have used our young men in that way.

I had been thinking that a good time travel story might be one that depicted a person with a time machine who was fed up with today's world and since he also believed the 1950s was a "simpler time," he goes back to that time and finds more trouble than he can handle. Sounds like it's been done already, but if it hasn't, anyone who needs an idea is welcome to it.

Ken wrote: "Mika wrote: "That's one thing I liked about King's book. He depicted the difficult issues that people were dealing with and pointed out that if Kennedy hadn't been shot, things might have got a lot..."

I agree about the JFK vs. LBJ thing.
I read the first two volumes of the Robert Cato biography of LBJ. (The third volume came out fairly recently, after more than 10 years.) LBJ was not a nice guy. Insecure, duplicitous, and a bully to anyone he felt he could treat that way. IMHO, he had exactly the wrong sort of personality to engage in a measuring contest with the North Vietnamese and China.
I have read, but not investigated, the tantalizing assertion that JFK was moving towards pulling out of Vietnam.

Doc, here's the normal historical view:

Because of the upcoming election (1964) Kennedy, after having made his point, would have pulled out or, at the very least, cut back on military advisers by then.

Johnson, on the other hand, after the assassination
& wishing to show power even in the face of national tragedy, went the other way.

He was a master politician (as opposed to a successful one) so he got his way & dug in when it didn't go his way & he never even stopped to heed the old adage of 'never get into a ground war in Asia.'

Howard wrote: "He was a master politician (as opposed to a successful one) so he got his way & dug in when it didn't go his way & he never even stopped to heed the old adage of 'never get into a ground war in Asia.' "

If only he had heeded that adage, I had friends who would likely be alive today.