Old people have traveled a long way in time, let’s say arbitrarily, “three score and ten” (70) years. Granted, they’ve drifted through at the ambient rate of 1 second per second which is way it took them so long, and why they are, well…old.
Author: Paul Wandason
Paul is a time travel enthusiast and writes for time2timetravel.com as Paul Wandason. As a father of two growing daughters, Paul’s eager to avoid the grandfather paradox and has no intention of annoying any of his future grandchildren. If he had any free time he’d probably fill it by looking at the stars and other wonders of the universe. And if he had a time machine he’d probably hide it from his grandchildren.
An exciting future with Time Travel Nexus
The start of the new year is traditionally the moment when we make resolutions and take on new projects, and it’s looking like I’m going to be involved in a grand one with timetravelnexus!
Review: Beyond the Rest of Us by Andrew Man
Beyond the Rest of Us is the third in Andrew Man’s Tego Arcana Dei series and is one of the strangest books I’ve read for a long time – and yet I enjoyed it without having the blindest clue as to what is going on to whom, why, where or when!
Review: z2 by Sherrie Cronin
z2 by Sherrie Cronin is a delightful science fiction novel with a delicate undertone of time manipulation running right through it. A multitude of story lines and characters blend together beautifully to create a 5 star novel with inter-related characters with depth and a poetic conclusion to top it all off!
A late time keeper
When people are late it’s a sign that they disregard your own time. Sometimes though, lateness can’t be helped. Indeed, other people may cause it, or even make alleviating the problems being late causes, worse.
A non-existent school past
A non existent high school alumni group points to whether I have a past school life and asks whether my memory of it is simply a figment of my imagination.
Review: The Jericho River by David W. Tollen
The Jericho River (David Tollen) is not a great time travel novel, but its strength lies in giving YA readers an alternative to dry history text books.
Review: Making it Home (Suzanne Roche)
Making it Home (Suzanne Roche) is a very well written time travel novel aimed at younger readers. The time travel method is interesting and reminiscent of old style computer adventure games with a series of sub-plots which tie together under a general theme. And as you might expect, when the time travel method uses an encyclopedia, you’re bound to learn something during the adventure!
Free dimensional thinking and time travel
Can free dimensional thinking help us to understand what exactly we’re talking about when it comes to time travel?
Review: The Windmill of Time by Jeffery Goldberg
The Windmill of Time (Jeffery Goldberg) starts as a romance novel with some time travel, then shifts to altering events to bring about a new future.
How to move a time machine
A time machine needs to move itself in time as well as its inhabitants because otherwise it would be a portal. But how does it do that without bootstrapping?
Review: Time Split by Patricia Smith
Time Split by Patricia Smith is a beautifully succinct time travel novella which works on one time line. An alternate present arises when the past changes, and the main character seeks to go back in time again to rectify the trouble he’s caused. Naturally, there are complications…
Review: Hexad The Factory by Al. K. Line
Hexad The Factory is a great comedy time travel novel with looping in time of characters, objects and a resourceful (though sometimes over-used) application of the ontological paradox. The story line is original and there’s plenty to keep the reader wondering what’s going to happen next.
Beginning of time
It seems that time begins when we’re born, even for other people. Perhaps we should celebrate the beginning of time with…a birthday! 😉
Review: Inevitable by Steven Cotton
Inevitable by Steven Cotton is a superb mix of hard core science with philosophy, delicately underlined with a romantic thread. By the end I was left thinking “Blimey – this could actually happen!”
Dealing with Earth Time
It’s seems to me that children and animals have it right when it comes to dealing with Earth time. They pretty much ignore it. But for the rest of us we’re pretty useless with dealing with our own manual manipulation of time.
Back to the Future (and back again)
21 October 2015. This wouldn’t be a time travel blog if I didn’t write something about Back to the Future on “Back to the Future Day 2015” now would it?! So…how does the eighties BTTF 2 idea of the future measure up to “Back to the Future Day 2015” today? Maybe cartoons and headlines have it.
No Chime to Sit Still
With the help from an hourly chime and a little green man, I have no time to sit still.
Is time anti-hereditary?
Insanity is hereditary because you get it from your children. But I wonder if the opposite is true regarding time; without children we have more time, and in which case…is there a further step till we achieve time travel?
The Windmill of Time by Jeffrey Goldberg
The Windmill of Time (Jeffrey Goldberg) is a time travel memoir, based on real characters and events. Time time travel elements come into play right at the outset, and against the backdrop of a love story it really is very powerful (and excellently written!)
A unique signature of time
In the same way as Plato’s prisoners or Hawkins’ goldfish, are each of us seeing shadows of time, or a distorted view of it? How is it that each of us judge the duration of a second differently, just as each of us reproduce a uniquely shaped “0” when we hand write?
Morphing time at the train station
So 10 minutes morphs into an hour, and if my train turns up on platform 1 on time, I’ll be getting onto it when I should be getting off.
Review: The Tunnel by Josh Anderson
Josh Anderson’s “The Tunnel” is Book 1 of the Time of Death series for young adults. Time travel is via a “silk blot” which is a really original method of time travel, providing an entrance (and exit) to a tunnel complete with ladders and rungs marking the year. Lots of interesting threads, but sadly there’s no closure, just a “To be continued…”.
Review: The Time Jigsaw Deliverance by David Munro
I’m angered, confused, frustrated and impressed all at the same time with The Time Jigsaw Deliverance! It’s written superbly ( David Munro) – but nothing happens!
Review: Crossing in Time by D. L. Orton
Crossing in Time has a foot in two camps – romance (actually, sexual attraction) and science fiction. The trouble is that almost literally the legs are split too far between these camps. The story line is strong and engaging, and there’s a wealth of juicy time travel ideas and gadgetry in there written against a very knowledgeable (and humourous) backdrop.
Hands off, Einstein, she's mine!
The results from my experiment with time dilation are in: despite playing with the twin paradox, kissing my wife makes the universe a safer place!
Author interview: Jaime V. Batista (Epilogue: Time Machine Chronicles)
“Epilogue: Time Machine Chronicles” by Jaime V. Batista is a superb sequel to H.G.Wells’ “The Time Machine”. This is an author interview with the great man behind Epilogue: Jaime V. Batista.
Review: Exploits in Time by Nicholas C. Thomas
Exploits in Time (Nicholas C. Thomas) is a fantastic collection of 10 stories with original takes on the mysteries of time travel and other ideas in science fiction. Ultimately, it has at least something for everyone with an interest in science fiction, and if you’re lucky, it has even more!
An Experiment with Relativity
Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity, but he also described it using hot stoves and a pretty girl. This lead me to conduct my own experiment.
Review: Bridgevine by John Feldman
Bridgevine (John Feldman) is a very easy read with a simple plot involving time travel, but obvious time travel questions are ignored rather than left open. Repetition and over explanation, plus an immature main character lead me to believe this is a novel aimed at young adults or to be taken on holiday. On the positive side there are some nice examples of how and why a time machine can be used.
Beyond The Time Machine
The open ending in “The Time Machine” lends itself well to a sequel. Baxter’s atrocity of a sequel is “The Time Ships” which has somehow got itself registered as the authorised sequel, but far superior is “Epilogue: Time Machine Chronicles” by Jaime Batista.
Bed time
Children never like going to bed, so the hands of the clock spelling bed time seem like the finger of doom for them. But who really makes the decision for bed time?
Review: Epilogue by Jaime Batista
It’s a no-brainer – for every copy of the original The Time Machine sitting on a bookshelf or in an e-reader, there should be a copy of Epilogue!
Journey or destination
Some time travel novels focus more on the journey to another time, and how it’s done, than the destination itself. Other novels focus only on the “when” and pretty much ignore the time *travel* element. Which kind of novel works best?
Review: Replay by Ken Grimwood
Here’s a novel where the secondary character is vastly more interesting than the main one, and thankfully with her introduction into the novel an actual plot develops. Too bad she appears quite late on, but it is worth ploughing forwards through the initial drivel!
Crap 'review' for Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
I don’t think I’ve ever been so let down by a book than I have been with this piece of crap. It seems I can’t even give it away…