The Depths of Time
10 best books like The Depths of Time (Roger MacBride Allen): Here, There, and Everywhere, Brother to Shadows, The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time, Probability Moon, Jupiter Project, Infinity Beach, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Ivanhoe Gambit, Recursion, Wheelers
Here, There, and Everywhere
| Author | Chris Roberson |
| ISBN | 1591023319 |
When Roxanne Bonaventure is eleven years old, a dying woman gives her a gift that changes her life utterly, making her a singular creature, with no analogue or equivalent. With the strange device called the "Sofia," she is granted the ability to travel anywhere in space and time, not only through times...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0380770962 |
Brother to shadows marks the triumphant, long-awaited return of one of the most distinctive voices in the realm of the future-possible - the first sf novel in over a decade by the incomparable Andre Norton, winner of the Science Fiction Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award. At the end...
The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
| Author | Barry N. Malzberg |
| ISBN | 0743458141 |
A varied collection of short stories involving time travel. Individual stories vary in length from a few pages to several dozen. Tones of the stories range from comedic to light to serious to disturbing.
I am not typically a fan of time travel stories. I find usually that the author has a very...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 0312875835 |
Earth is an environmental disaster area when humanity gains new hope: a star gate is discovered in the solar system, built by a long-gone alien race. Earth establishes extrasolar colonies and discovers alien races--including the warlike Fallers, the only spacefaring race besides humans. Mysterious,...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0380790572 |
Serialized in Amazing Science Fiction Magazine in 1972, published as a novel in 1975.
The Jovian Astronautical-Biological Orbital Laboratory, a.k.a. "the Can", is the only home 17-year-old Matt Bohles has ever known. Concerned about the aging space station's failure to find evidence...
| Author | Jack McDevitt |
| ISBN | 0061020052 |
Though I “discovered” Jack McDevitt after he was already a well-established sci-fi writer, I’ve read a good share of his books now—most notably the series featuring Priscilla Hutchins (Engines of God, Deepsix, Chindi, etc.). McDevitt does a great job, I think, at illustrating the grandeur,...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0553578898 |
A man from Earth's distant past is humanity's only hope for a future...
Drake Merlin's wife, the love of his life, is dying of a rare, fatal disease for which there is no cure. Not now, in the 21st century. But surely in the future...
For Drake there is only one solution: have Ana's body...
| Author | Simon Hawke |
| ISBN | 9781484098 |
In the 27th Century, international disputes are resolved through time travel, "clocking" soldiers from the future into conflicts of the past. It seemed like an elegant idea: wartime industries drove the economy without actually putting nations through the physical ravages of war. And since the...
| Author | Tony Ballantyne |
| ISBN | 0553589288 |
It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city-and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire...
In the year 2270, with travel to the nearby planets well established, a bizarre discovery is made on Callisto, the eighth moon of Jupiter. Dozens upon dozens of strange wheeled artifacts ("wheelers"), hundreds of thousands of years old, are found buried beneath the icy surface. What were they used...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812553756 |
Poul Anderson, a legend of SF, is the writer whom the mantle of Robert A. Heinlein descended upon. Anderson devoted his career to the visionary enterprise of creating science fiction set in a carefully extrapolated human society of the future in the spirit of Heinlein.
Nowhere does he succeed...
A trip to the Moon? Sounds like the perfect family vacation. Only for 13-year-old Charles "Chigger" Dingillian his family is anything but perfect. His parents fight so much they put the 'dis' into dysfunctional. So when he and his brothers find themselves halfway to the Moon Chigger hits on a plan: if...
| Author | R.M. Meluch |
| ISBN | 0756405270 |
Captain John Farragut and the crew of the U.S.S. Merrimack face their greatest challenge as Caesar Romulus declares war on the United States of America with a direct attack on Earth. The Merrimack retaliates with an assault on the Roman capital world of Palatine, and in the midst of the chaos, the Hive...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0812535197 |
A distinguished veteran of science fiction, Frederik Pohl was one of the Futurians, a New York City club of the 1930s and '40s that included Isaac Asimov. Author of The Other End of Time and The World at the End of Time, his latest novel features Dan Dannerman, a poorly paid government agent in the not-too-distant...
| Author | William C. Dietz |
| ISBN | 0441011047 |
Dietz, William C. EarthRise. Sauron No. 2. Ace, 2003.
EarthRise completes the storyline started in Death Day. If Death Day was a response to Independence Day, EarthRise is a riff on War of the Worlds. The enslaved humans must overcome their own racist and xenophobic culture to discover the biological...
| Author | David Feintuch |
| ISBN | 0446600989 |
I was planning to put the Seafort Saga books down for a while and read some of the many books here on my shelves, but I found myself thinking about the characters and pulled back into his world.
In this book, Seafort relieves the cowardly admiral who abandoned him and his passengers to their fate....
| Author | Glen Cook |
| ISBN | 0441522130 |
May 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking...
| Author | John DeChancie |
| ISBN | 0441651461 |
Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in STARRIGGER and RED LIMIT FREEWAY, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe don’t seem to apply, Jake confronts...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0380793164 |
America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants -- and the renegades. The U.S. has abandoned its quest for the stars, and old enemy, Soviets, moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent army hands.
Rebel billionaire Dan Randolph, possessor of the largest...
| Author | Jack Williamson |
| ISBN | 0765347954 |
In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies and amateur adventurers who have discovered a dark mystery buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert decide to do something about it.
In the deep Sahara, they find an ancient artifact that will change their lives and the world, forever… a...
| Author | George Gaylord Simpson |
This lost novella by the century's most renowned paleontologist has been called the greatest time-travel story in more than one hundred years.
Vanishing from Earth on February 30, 2162, while working on a problem of quantum theory, research chronologist Sam Magruder is thrown back 80 million...
| Author | James Alan Gardner |
| ISBN | 0380813327 |
Radiant closes out the League of Peoples series in classic style. Youn Suu is an explorer disfigured by a weeping sore on her cheek and a narcissistic mother. When a diplomatic mission goes awry, she is infested with the hyper-intelligent Balrog spores, teamed up with Admiral Festina Ramos, and sent...
