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1953866 No.1953866 [Reply] [Original]

hey /lit/, any recommendations on time travel books?

>> No.1953868

Time's Arrow - Martin Amis

>> No.1953877

Time Traveler's Wife is surprisingly pretty damn good, consider how much of a terrible paperback harlequin romance I imagined after hearing about it. It does get a little schmaltzy toward the end, though.

>> No.1953880

Why does Back to the future reference Jules Verne if he didn't even write the time machine?

>> No.1953894

>>1953868
it looks interesting

>>1953877
I think I'll begin with this, I hope it's better than the movie

>>1953880
cause he "predicted" some things?

>> No.1953901

>>1953880
Because up until 1985
Jules Verne did write the Time Machine
Fuckin Marty McFly had to screw everything up

>> No.1953903

The Time Machine - Wells.

>> No.1953907

>>1953894

All I saw of the movie was the trailer, and I can already tell you that it is. It's actually a pretty sincere sci-fi story that raises a lot of questions about the nature of fate, as it relates to love.

There's a pretty clever little device where the female lead comes up to the male lead (who's never met her) and says she's known him since she was a little girl. This causes them to start a relationship, which later leads to him visiting her as a girl. Neither is really sure who "started" the relationship; they're just sort of bound together inextricably. What makes this effective is that it's not even the main thrust of the plot; it's just throwaway background information that lends emotional weight to everything else.

>> No.1953910

Whatever you do, avoid Felix Palma's "The Map of Time". Thoroughly disappointing and relentlessly twee.