Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Replay (1986)Replay (1986) 8.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1986Jeff Winston dies in middle age and wakes as his younger self, carrying memories of the life he has already lived. Repetition makes this a particularly good starting point: choices become experiments, but love and loss refuse to behave like variables that can simply be controlled. Track what…0
  2. 2The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2014Harry repeatedly returns to childhood with the knowledge of his previous lives. That clear starting constraint grows into a story about people who can remember history differently from everyone around them, and the loyalties such an existence makes possible. Long-range planning and patient…0
  3. 3The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2003Henry's involuntary journeys through his own lifetime leave Clare experiencing their relationship in a different order. The resulting problem is intimate: how do two people build trust when the same encounter can mean very different things to each of them? Niffenegger gives the strange chronology…0
  4. 4The other Valley (2024)The other Valley (2024) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2024Odile grows up in a town bordered by versions of itself twenty years ahead and twenty years behind. Movement between them is governed by strict permissions, turning a beautifully simple geography into a system of grief, duty and withheld possibilities. This is a patient choice for readers…0i
  5. 5The Time Ships (1995)The Time Ships (1995) 6.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1995Read Wells's The Time Machine before this ambitious continuation. Baxter sends the Traveller back towards the future he remembers, only to confront the consequences of having visited it at all. The scale expands into branching history and much more speculative physics than Wells's short novel…0
  6. 6Doomsday book (1992)Doomsday book (1992) 7.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1992A historian's journey into medieval England depends on preparation, timing and colleagues able to bring her home. Willis makes those procedures matter, then places expertise beside the much less controllable demands of illness and care. The historical and contemporary strands reward patient…0
  7. 7To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997)To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) 7.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1997An exhausted time-travelling historian, an awkwardly displaced object and a Victorian excursion produce a comedy built from timing problems. Willis makes apparent digressions part of the pleasure, so this suits a reader happy to keep track of details while enjoying the social misunderstandings.…0
  8. 8The End of Eternity (1955)The End of Eternity (1955) 8.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1955Andrew Harlan helps an organisation alter history to reduce human suffering, working at a distance from the lives affected. Personal attachment makes that professional detachment increasingly difficult. Asimov offers a compact causal puzzle with an unusually useful ethical pressure: who decides…0
  9. 9The Time Machine (1895)The Time Machine (1895) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1895Wells turns a mechanical journey into the distant future into an argument about what a society's present arrangements may become. Its brevity makes the contrast with larger time-travel constructions especially useful: this is a journey through history's consequences rather than a manual for…0
  10. 10The man who folded himself (1973)The man who folded himself (1973) 6.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1973An inherited time belt allows Dan Eakins to meet other versions of himself, making identity as much of a puzzle as cause and effect. Gerrold follows the premise into desire, loneliness and the strange limits of being one's own most important companion. This short, conceptually concentrated novel…0