![]() ![]() This is a brilliant, thought-provoking, and intense book that is required reading for so many reasons least of which is time travel. Over the course of these harrowing episodes, Dana realizes her connection to Rufus and the challenge she is faced with. She is repeatedly pulled back to the past encountering the same young man. She is pulled back to her present just in time to save her life, appearing back in her living room soaked and muddy. She saves a young white boy named Rufus from drowning and finds herself staring down the barrel of his father’s rifle. Kindred by Octavia Butlerĭana is an African American woman celebrating her birthday in 1976 California when she is pulled through time to Antebellum Maryland. This is a really gorgeously written and heart-wrenching story about time travel, dystopian society, the brutality of survival in an unfamiliar world, and a character study of a normal person dealing with it all. They agree to meet up in the future, but Polly is rerouted to a later time where America is divided and she has no connections and no money. Polly’s boyfriend Frank gets sick and she signs up for a one-way ticket to the future to work off the cost of Frank’s cure. ![]() There is a deadly flu pandemic in America. As Newitz recently said in an extra of their podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, history is a “synthesis of good fuckery” and I can’t think of a better phrase to describe this book than that. ![]() There’s time travel, murder, punk rock concerts, nerd references, and an edit war. They run up against the misogynistic group called the Comstockers working towards the opposite goal. In the world of Another Timeline, time travel has been around since forever in the form of a geologic phenomena known as the “Machines.” Tess belongs to a group called the Daughters of Harriett, determined to make the future better for women by editing the timeline at key moments in history. The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz Kin dealing with the circumstances of time travel and the consequences it brings about is super compelling and emotional and so, so worthy of a Murray Gold score. Here and Now and Then has all those warm and fuzzy sci-fi feels with just the right amount of Doctor Who level angst. Kin is a time-traveling agent from the year 2142 who gets stuck in 1990s San Francisco after a botched mission, and his rescue team shows up 18 years too late after he’s already built a life for himself. So, if you can still recite the opening credits of Quantum Leap from memory, this list is for you. The best time travel books come in all packages: adventure, historical fiction, romance, social commentary, mystery, humor, poetry. Hear me out, there’s a sub-genre of sci-fi that that has a touch of anything you could ever want: time travel books. Also, she unapologetically judges books by their covers and makes way too many playlists (c'mon, books need a soundtrack too!). Audiobooks and print books get equal love. She works for that Ivy League institution down the street and tries to read as many books as possible in her free time. ![]()
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