Time Patrol

10 best books like Time Patrol (Poul Anderson): Time and Again, Up the Line, The Flight of the Horse, Millennium, The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time, Time Storm, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Proteus Operation, The Zenda Vendetta, Wagers of Sin

AuthorClifford D. Simak
ISBN0441810039
'One of those complex and enormously inventive stories... based on some real, honest, practical ethical thinking. It is an idea book.'
- Groff Conklin in Galaxy Science Fiction

Asher Sutton has been lost in deepest space for twenty years. Suddenly arrives a warning from the future, that...
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0743444973
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past...
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN1857238419
'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him.

And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. ALl he knew was that Haville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.

But when he returns, Hanville Svetz...
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441006779
In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator named...
The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
AuthorBarry N. Malzberg
ISBN0743458141
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...
Time Storm
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0671721488
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To the Librarians
During the 1930's and 1940's anyone writing science fiction did so almost exclusively for magazines. Then in the early 1950's the magazine market began to die and paperback books...
AuthorCharles Sheffield
ISBN0553578898
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...
AuthorJames P. Hogan
ISBN0671877577
I went through a big Jim Hogan kick a few years back. I picked this one up recently in a second-hand bookshop, and I think I can now more clearly see both Hogan's strengths and his weaknesses. He's easy to get addicted to, easy to dislike when you're not addicted.

The premise: the Allies lost the...
AuthorSimon Hawke
ISBN1584451149
In he kingdom of Ruritania, Prince Rudolf is about to be crowned king. Instead, due to the machinations of his half-brother, he becomes the "Prisoner of Zenda."

That was back in the 19th century. But history is about to repeat itself--with a twist. The TIMEKEEPERS, the terrorist underground...
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0671877305
In the early part of the 21st Century disaster struck -an experiment on an orbiting station went wrong -bad wrong. The Accident almost destroyed the universe, and ripples in time washed over the Earth. Like the plagues of an earlier millineum, Earth was depopulated, and then it rebuilt. And the people...
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as "Lest Darkness Fall" has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the ‘favorite’ books of many of the masters of the field, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped establish time-travel as a solid sub-genre of science fiction.

An...
Patton's Spaceship
AuthorJohn Barnes
ISBN0061056596
Combining the suspense of the detective thriller with the awesome wonder of space/time adventure. Crux of Battle begins an epic tale of a war across one million alternate Earths."One of the most able and impressive of SF's rising stars!" --The Washington PostAn exciting blend of time travel, alien...
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
ISBN0755100786
In the barren dust of the far future, the sun leaks energy in a darkening sky and the only remaining humans are imprisoned by spectral bloodthirsty beings. Back in the brilliant Utah sunlight of 1999, two ancient graves yield evidence that a species of human coexisted with the dinosaurs. Linking these...
AuthorRobert Charles Wilson
ISBN0385419376
Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge—a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end lies the familiar present. At the other end—New York City,...
The Way the Future Was: A Memoir
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345277147
Award-winning writer, whiz-kid editor, wide-eyed fan, pioneering anthologist and demon literary agent—Frederik Pohl's been all over the science-fiction field, including a stretch as President of The Science Fiction Writers of America.

Here is his story of how he got to all those places...
AuthorHarry Harrison
ISBN0812516079
Why pay for costumes, scenery, props or actors when the most brilliant drama of all time is unfolding before your very eyes, in vivid color - in 1050 A.D.? Just the film crew of that stupendous motion picture saga Viking Columbus as they journey back in time to capture history in the making.

The...
Year's Best SF 11
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0060873418
Travel farther than you've ever dreamed Man has mused about the nature of our universe since he first gazed up in wonder at the stars. Now some of the most fertile imaginations in speculative fiction offer bold and breathtaking visions of "what's out there" and "what's next" in the eleventh annual celebration...
Conrad's Quest for Rubber
AuthorLeo Frankowski
ISBN0345368509
ONWARD AND OUTWARD
Conrad Stargard has come a long way since he was first transported from the twentieth century to the thirteenth. Thanks to his knack for "inventing" such astonishing things as steam engines, machine guns, radios, and riverboats, he's turned Medieval Poland into a military...
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