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*There Will Be Time
*The Time Ships
*A Wrinkle in Time
*Disconnected
*Planet of the Apes
*Passenger
*Buckyball
I really liked Blackout but readers should be aware that it is actually only the first half of a story. It was originally much longer and Connie Willis ended up splitting it into two books. In order to fully appreciate it you also need to read All Clear with it.
*Diver Creed Station*Island in the Sea of Time
*There Will Be Time
*The Time Ships
*Disconnected
*Landline
*Passenger
*Buckyball
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*Island in the Sea of Time
*There Will Be Time (if I can find a copy)
*The Time Ships (if I can find a copy)
*A Wrinkle in Time
*Disconnected (if I can find a copy)
*Planet of the Apes
*Passenger
*Buckyball (if I can find a copy)
Unfortunately though I would like to read Diver Creed Station, I do not have a Kindle and will not buy one. I already read Landline.
I will come back and add to the list as I read through the blurbs.* Passenger
* Planet of the Apes
* Buckyball
*Blackout*Island in the Sea of Time
*There Will Be Time
*A Wrinkle in Time
*Disconnected
*Landline
*Passenger
*Buckyball
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Nancy, be sure to make it a separate comment rather than editing your list so that I don't miss it!
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That being said Disconnected sounds the best to me...A Romcom of miscommunication through time travel...would be a nice contrast after shining girls.
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I'll put a definite vote down for you for Disconnected. If you have any other votes later, let me know.
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It's definitely not a bad idea to follow up something heavy and dark with something more lighthearted and more comedic. Since it already has 5 votes, I'll set it up for our May read. We can set the dates for the other popular books later. Disconnected has certainly been on our list for a long time, so it's about time we got to it!
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I'm not suggesting we add this to this list but The Stopped Heart just came out last month and might be worth considering sometime in the future. I also just found a NY Times review for it here. 
Here are mine: *There Will Be Time
*The Time Ships
*A Wrinkle in Time
(Read a Wrinkle a long long time ago and would revisit with the group.)
Sorry I haven't had time to come back and look at the rest of the books. My dad is in the hospital. Everyone keeps saying good things about A Wrinkle in Time and the blurb sounds interesting so add as another vote from me.
Id like to offer up my book Time Traveler Chronicles for a future readhttps://www.amazon.com/Time-Traveler-...
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Time Travel
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The Stopped Heart (other topics)Blackout (other topics)
All Clear (other topics)
Disconnected (other topics)
Planet of the Apes (other topics)
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So here's what you do: read the synopsis of the books I've listed and comment below with the names of the books that you'd be willing to read if we choose them as a group. If you've already read the book and don't intend to read with us, please don't vote. Likewise, don't vote if you don't plan to join in the book discussions.
Wars, disease and a massive collapse of modern civilization have ravaged the human race of a hundred years in the future. Finally in the late twenty- second century, mankind slowly begins to struggle back from the edge of extinction. When a huge “virtual life” facility is restored from a hibernation type of storage and slowly brought back online, a new hope materializes. But this system is haunted by the long lost past. System ghosts intermingle with mysterious factions that place two young technicians into a cyberspace trap, with little hope for survival.
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.
Piercing the Elastic Limit - an Epic Fable 1 vote
PIERCING the ELASTIC LIMIT, the second astounding EPIC FABLE from master storyteller HOWARD LORING, traces the determined actions of the mysterious but compelling ‘Old Man beyond the Portal,’ as he and his redheaded assistant pursue their secretive Mandate to rescue the imperiled planet’s future. A page turning quest spanning the ages, once more this elusive author employs the simple FABLE to reveal a vast and griping EPIC adventure through time and space, portraying with penetrating insight authentic lives of genuine historic figures including Aristocrat Julius Caesar, Writer Christopher Marlowe and Master Musician Robert Schumann, to name but a few. Filled with high intrigue and escalating excitement, this engaging EPIC FABLE surpasses the reader’s imagination yet again, transporting them into a formerly hidden and baffling realm of reality, all by PIERCING the ELASTIC LIMIT.
It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a would-be conqueror from their own time.
Time travel is impossible! There is no machine that can take you into time, past or future. But what if you are born a time traveler? Jack Havig did not know how he could cross the centuries merely by willing himself to. But the fact remained, he could. And, thought Jack, if I can travel through time, there must be others! So Jack Havig, human being extraordinaire, set out to see the world--the world of ancient Rome, of the Byzantine empire, of the American Indian tribes & ultimately the world of the future. Seeing the future, Jack found meaning in his life and a reason for his gift. He must seek out others like himself throughout the centuries and together they must try to affect the future of humankind. For that future threatened the extinction of humanity's entire civilization...
There is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live. A century after the publication of H. G. Wells' immortal The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter, today's most acclaimed new "hard SF" author, and the acknowledged Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion, and a radical departure based on the astonishing new understandings of quantum physics.
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract". Meg's father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?
Mark is single and has just started internet dating. Rebecca has broken up with her long-term boyfriend and moved to a new city. When they meet at a party, they discover they share a unique and magical connection--their telephone line.
For when Rebecca calls Mark the next day, the message she leaves inexplicably goes back in time three days. And then things really start to get weird. Disconnected--a comedy thriller with a twist of romance. And it's about time too.
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble; it has been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems beside the point now. Maybe that was always beside the point. Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn't expect him to pack up the kids and go home without her. When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything. That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts... Is that what she’s supposed to do? Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?
A skeptical non-human couple retrieve a bottle in space with a strange story. In the not-too-distant future, three men rocket to an Earth-like planet with temperate lush forests. But here humans are savages who destroy their shuttle; apes their civilized masters who kill one, capture the narrator.
In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them—whether she wants to or not. Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home... forever.
Buckyball is a first person narrative. James Pissola tells the story of how one night of partying with his best friend in South Beach changed his life. Listening to a specific song always transports him back to the same time and place, which happens to be the Miamillennium nightclub in Miami. These flashback moments are called life-turns and James claims to have lived over one hundred and seventy-one of them, some lasting between 13 and 26 years.
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Here's the full list to copy, delete the ones you're not interested in, and paste back into the comments section:
*Diver Creed Station
*Blackout
*Piercing the Elastic Limit - an Epic Fable
*Island in the Sea of Time
*There Will Be Time
*The Time Ships
*A Wrinkle in Time
*Disconnected
*Landline
*Planet of the Apes
*Passenger
*Buckyball