“Behold the Man” has an intriguing premise of carrying out the (known) actions of a historical figure on their behalf. Pity it’s such a jumble.
Category: Book reviews
posts with reviews of fiction and non fiction books with an element of time travel
Review: T is for Time Travel by Stanlei Bellan
“T is for Time Travel” by Stanlei Bellan is the ideal collection of short stories to take with you on a time loop.
Reworking the Fabric in C R Downing’s HOT L
A gentle thread of thought that weaves back through the time fabric and into C R Downing’s HOT L, and then back into a present reworking.
Review – Seven Rules of Time Travel (Roy Huff)
It’s clear that author Roy Huff has carried out an incredible amount of research into writing “The Seven Rules of Time Travel”. It’s loaded with science and time travel!
Review: A Crown in Time by Jennifer Macaire
A Crown in Time by Jennifer Macaire is a wonderful piece of historical fiction with a good dose of time travel!
Cover Reveal: Seven Rules of Time Travel by Roy Huff
Seven Rules of Time Travel by Roy Huff is a fast-paced science fiction thriller – and due for release on 2 July. Till then, there’s a promotion!
Review: Angelica’s Time Machine (Julian Bradbrook)
I’m not entirely sure for whom this novel is written or what the overall plot is – but it does make me think about the flexibility of the time line.
The Space Between Thought – William M. Dean
I was bombarded with so many thoughts I have no space left! Brilliantly written with a superb time travel component!
Birth of the Galaxy Star Book Rating System
The traditional star rating system has limitations. I’m going to try this Galaxy Star Book Rating System instead!
Review: Beyond the Moon (Catherine Taylor)
Beyond the Moon brings a war soldier and a lady held against her will in a psychiatric ward together. Ah yes, and there’s a 100 years between them!
Review: The Keepers of the Black Cave (Hanit Pahima)
A black cave as a time travel portal and 3 alien siblings at ‘its’ mercy. What else is in store?
Review: The Road to Alexander (Jennifer Macaire)
“The Road to Alexander” by Jennifer Macaire is brilliantly written with a sense of humour and a main character I love! đŸ™‚
Review: Journeyman (Mark J. Rose)
Mark J. Rose writes Journeyman drawing on his own experience as an equestrian and a pharmacologist. There’s little time travel but the writing is superb!
Review: Traveler’s HOT L Vol. 2 (CR Downing)
Traveler’s HOT L Volume 2 has a solid time travel mechanism (complete with a full description) and short stories of its application and consequences when things go wrong. It’s brilliantly written too!
A Journey to “Journeyman”
Which is easiest – dropping Matt Miller in Colonial America or dropping a package containing the novels through my letter box?
Review: An Age (Brian Aldiss)
An Age by Brian Aldiss takes an age to get to the point, and by the time it’s been reached it’s too late.
Review: Memoirs of a Time Traveler (Doug Molitor)
“Memoirs of a Time Traveler” by Doug Molitor is a novel of 3 halves. I love the writing style and the humour, and the time travel aspect is well thought out!
Review: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
An easy read for a full length time travel novel from the author who brought us “All You Zombies” and “By His Bootstraps”. Was walking through this door worth it?
Review: Patterns on Pages (CR Downing)
Patterns on Pages: Secrets of the Sequenced Symbols is a beautifully written full length novel following in the HOT L series by CR Downing with time travel integrated throughout.
Review: Piercing the Elastic Limit: An Epic Fable (Howard Loring)
Piercing the Elastic Limit: An Epic Fable (Howard Loring) is effectively a series of stories with a common thread and some common characters running through them. This novel is loaded with ideas to get the time travel enthusiast thinking!
Review: Time Split – Briggs (Patricia Smith)
Patricia’s powerful writing in “Time Split – Briggs” brings us multiple time lines thanks to a time machine / teleporter backed up with experimental development from the first novel (“Time Split”). Be prepared for some blood and gore with the evil Briggs!
Review: Lost Time and Dead Time (D. L. Orton)
“Dead Time” and “Lost Time” are different flavours to the dish that is served in Book 1, “Crossing in Time”. Beautifully written with parallel worlds, time travel and Deb’s usual dose of good quality humour!
Review: Two Worlds Collided (Karen Michelle Nutt)
“Two Worlds Collided” by Karen Michelle Nutt probably doesn’t set out to be a time travel novel in itself, but rather a quirky romance novel with time travel added to make it interesting!
Review: The Grandfather Paradox: A Time Travel Story (Steven Burgauer)
I was heavily impressed – and disappointed – with “The Grandfather Paradox” by Steven Burgauer. It has the makings of an absolutely cracking scifi novel, but somehow loses itself along the way.
Review: Thanksgiving Eve by Jay Brandon
Thanksgiving Eve fails as a time travel novel but other aspects of this novel make it a compelling tale of how a father tries to improve relations with his family.
Review: The Guttersnipes by Scott Eric Barrett
The Guttersnipes by Scott Eric Barrett is a fun and fast-paced read which has a time travel component that involves a biological and technological component.
Review: Beyond the Elastic Limit (Howard Loring)
Beyond the Elastic Limit (Howard Loring) is fantastic time travel nuts and bolts stuff with a time travel methodology built around an interesting model of time!
Review: Trespass by Mikey Campling
Mikey Campling’s “Trespass” has a “Darkeningstone” which affects people across the ages. The novel is very well written and builds layers of intrigue regarding the stone and its properties, but ultimately I couldn’t tell where the novel was heading.
Review: The Day After Never (Nathan Van Coops)
Reading The Day After Never (by Nathan Van Coops) is like folding raspberry jam through ice cream. Parts seem immiscible at first, but by the end of the novel you realise that it comes together to make it a really cool novel!
Review: Saves Nine and In One Basket by Les Lynam
These second and third instalments in the Time Will Tell series are a pretty decent novel version of the situation played out in the Back to the Future movie where a teenager battles for his own existence. Some parts are slow, but prepare yourself for some fantastic time travel features!
Review: The Clock that went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell
The more I think about “The Clock that Went Backward” and the more times I reread it, the more frustrated I become with it. And yet at the same time – more impressed!
Review: Hegira (Jim Cronin)
“Hegira” is the first book in Jim Cronin’s “The Brin Archives” series and brings us a superb combination of world building, alien races and time travel. It’s well written, covers a phenomenal range of subject matter, and (importantly) deals with many aspects of time travel too!
Review: Stumbling on a Tale (Suzanne Roche)
“Stumbling On a Tale” is the next novel in the “Time to Time” series by Suzanne Roche. Like its predecessor it’s written beautifully and sweeps the reader in the author’s enthusiasm for the time and place that the novel is set. Layers are gradually added to the time travel mechanism, and there’s also promise of more great time travel things to follow too!
Review: Fated Memories by Joan Carney
Fated Memories by Joan Carney is a well written and interesting exploration into the times of the American Civil War seen through the eyes of Kitty and Maggie. Surviving as nurses they see the harsher sides of the war, although a romantic light shines its light into the novel. Frequent comparisons between the duo’s past and present keep the time travel theme alive, though as is fitting with the flavour of the novel, there is no heavy scientific content.
Review: Backwards by Rob Grant
Backwards isn’t strictly a time travel novel – playing with time is simply a backdrop to the plot which at the same time creates plenty of comedic scenarios…as you’d hope from a comedy!
Review: Before you Leap by Les Lynam
Before you Leap by Les Lynam is a wonderful YA time travel novel with many other scifi ideas included. Les gives us ideas of future technology as well as an elegant time travel methodology – and how strained relationships between a Grandfather and a 5 times great grandson can be!