Alastair Reynolds’s new Time Travel short novel, Permafrost, presents us with a dying world in 2080. An environmental disaster has killed all insects and now the plants are dying. Humanity is slowly starving to death. Dr. Cho of the World Health Organization assembles a small team to try a desperate experiment: send the consciousnesses of the team members back to 2029 and try to avert the environmental catastrophe. As usual in these kind of Time Travel stories, Something Goes Wrong.
Alastair Reynolds packs a lot of excitement in his slim 176-page novel. This is a quick and thrilling read! Do you like Time Travel stories? GRADE: B+
I like time travel stories. My favorites(off the top of my head) are the novels Timescape by Gregory Benford and Up the Line by Robert Silverberg and short stories All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein and The Men Who Murdered Mohammed by Alfred Bester.
Steve, you have excellent taste in Time Travel stories! I was blown away as a kid when I read Robert Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” and “All You Zombies”! Robert Silverberg may be the King of Time Travel stories. I loved TIME AND TIME AGAIN, his recent collection of Time Travel stories.
I recommend Philip K Dick’s DR FUTURITY and THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF by David Gerrold.
Dan, I remember reading Philip K. Dick’s DR. FUTURITY as half of an ACE Double many years ago. Some people think David Gerrold just wrote that “The Trouble With Tribbles” episode for Star Trek. Gerrold’s THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF is a top-notch Time Travel story!
Love time travel books.
TIME AND AGAIN (and the sequel, FROM TIME TO TIME) by Jack Finney. Several of Connie Willis’s books (including TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG). Ken Grimwood’s REPLAY. THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE. KIng’s 11/22/63.
Love them. They are the only kind of science fiction I am drawn to. TIME AND AGAIN is my favorite. REPLAY was good too.
Patti, Time Travel presents plenty of room for writers to explore. TIME AND AGAIN is a classic!
Not interested in this one, but I really liked the TIME PATROL stories.
Rick, Poul Anderson’s TIME PATROL stories are great fun! I’m also a fan of Fritz Leiber’s CHANGE WAR stories.
Jerry Pournelle collaborated on a time travel series: Remember…The Alamo; Remember, Gettysburg; Remember…The Little Big Horn! A team of Green Beret/Navy Seal-like characters travel back in time to fight in the battles mentioned in the titles! Lots of action and interesting perspectives on the battles!
Bob, I own a couple of those Jerry Pournelle REMEMBER books. I’ll have to find them and read them!