List of time travel novels
This (incomplete) list includes novels that use the concept of time travel in a broad sense . Time travel can be done through hypothetical technical means, the intervention of higher powers or simply by sleeping through the centuries. The first time travel with technical means, ie a time machine, was described by Edward Page Mitchell in his short story The Clock That Went Backward , published in 1881 and also listed here ; the first time travel with a time machine into the future was described by HG Wells in 1895 in the novel The Time Machine .
| year | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1771 | The year 2440: a dream of all dreams | Louis-Sébastien Mercier |
| 1781 | Anno 7603 | Johan Herman Wessel |
| 1819 | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| 1881 | The Clock That Went Backward | Edward Page Mitchell |
| 1887 | El Anacronópete | Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau |
| 1888 | A look back from the year 2000 to the year 1887 | Edward Bellamy |
| 1888 | A Dream of John Ball | William Morris |
| 1888 | The Chronic Argonauts | HG Wells |
| 1889 | A yankee at the court of King Arthur | Mark Twain |
| 1890 | News from Nowhere | William Morris |
| 1891 | Tourmalin's Time Checks | Thomas A. Gutherie |
| 1892 | Golf in the year 2000 | J. McCullough |
| 1895 | The Time Machine | HG Wells |
| 1899 | When the sleeper wakes up | HG Wells |
| 1906 | The Story of the Amulet | Edith Nesbit |
| 1907 | Le meraviglie del Duemila | Emilio Salgari |
| 1908 | Pierre Maurignac's adventure (also: the time trial bike ) | Carl Grunert |
| 1914 | The recovered time machine | Wilhelm Bastiné |
| 1936 | Burnt Norton | TS Eliot |
| 1938/1952 | The Legion of Time | Jack Williamson |
| 1939 | Read Darkness Fall | L. Sprague de Camp |
| 1941 | Lé Decret | Marcel Aymé |
| 1941 | By His Bootstraps | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1941 | I killed Hitler | Ralph Milne Farley |
| 1944 | Future Times Three | René Barjavel |
| 1946 | Vintage season | Lawrence O'Donnell (joint pseudonym of CL Moore and Henry Kuttner ) |
| 1946 | The journey with the time machine | Egon Friedell |
| 1950 | Pebble in the Sky | Isaac Asimov |
| 1951 | The Gauntlet | Ronald Welch |
| 1953 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore |
| 1954 | experiment | Fredric Brown |
| 1955 | The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov |
| 1955- 1995 |
Time Patrol | Poul Anderson |
| 1956 | Extempore | Damon Knight |
| 1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
| 1957 | Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd ( A Week in the Wales of the Future ) | Islwyn Ffowc Elis |
| 1957 | The Door into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1957 | The Last Word | Damon Knight |
| 1957 | Twice in time | Manly Wade Wellman |
| 1957 | Soldier from Tomorrow | Harlan Ellison |
| 1958 | The Men Who Murdered Mohammed | Alfred Bester |
| 1958 | When the clock struck thirteen | Philippa Pearce |
| 1959 | All you zombies | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1960 | The Weirdstone of Brisingamen | Alan Garner |
| 1961 | Danny Dunn, Time Traveler | Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams |
| 1961 | The trace through time and space , volume 15 of the Sci-Fi series Perry Rhodan | Clark Darlton |
| 1962 | The awakened dormouse | Adalbert Seipolt |
| 1964 | Farnham's Freehold | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1964 | Operation past | Andre Norton |
| 1965 | The blue flowers | Raymond Queneau |
| 1966 | Now Wait for Last Year | Philip K. Dick |
| 1966 | Are you insured that well? | Robin S. Scott |
| 1967 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Yasutaka Tsutsui |
| 1967 | Jessamy | Barbara Sleigh |
| 1967 | The Technicolor Time Machine | Harry Harrison |
| 1968 | Hawksbill Station | Robert Silverberg |
| 1969 | Fryspunkteet (German: Bruno's frozen days ) | Not so with Bodelsen |
| 1969 | Schlachthof 5 or The Children's Crusade | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1969 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock |
| 1969 | Charlotte Sometimes | Penelope Farmer |
| 1969 | Up the line | Robert Silverberg |
| 1969 | The House on the Strand | Daphne du Maurier |
| 1970 | The other bank of time | Jack Finney |
| 1970 | The year of the silent sun | Wilson Tucker |
| 1971 | The Dancer from Atlantis | Poul Anderson |
| 1971 | Star Diaries (Twentieth Journey) | Stanislaw Lem |
| 1972-84 | The Dancers at the End of Time (series of novels) | Michael Moorcock |
| 1973 | The king project | Carl Amery |
| 1973 | The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold |
| 1973 | Time Enough for Love | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1973 | Crusade in jeans | Thea Beckman |
| 1975 | Bid time return | Richard Matheson |
| 1976 | To Infinite Summer | Christopher Priest |
| 1976 | The Space Machine | Christopher Priest |
| 1977 | Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation | Larry Niven |
| 1979 | Time after time | Karl Alexander |
| 1979 | Morlock Night | KW Jeter |
| 1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford |
| 1980 | The Final Countdown | Martin Caidin |
| 1980 | Thrice Upon a Time | James P. Hogan |
| 1980 | A rebel in time | Harry Harrison |
| 1980 | Kindred | Octavia Butler |
| 1980 | The restaurant at the end of the universe | Douglas Adams |
| 1981 | The Many-Colored Land , first book in the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series | Julian May |
| 1981 | The last day of creation | Wolfgang Jeschke |
| 1982 | Life, the universe and everything else | Douglas Adams |
| 1983 | Letters to the Chinese Past | Herbert Rosendorfer |
| 1983 | millennium | John Varley |
| 1983 | The Anubis Gates | Tim Powers |
| 1984-2012 | Caballo de Troya (book series) | Juan José Benítez |
| 1984 | The Toynbee Convector | Ray Bradbury |
| 1985 | The Proteus Operation | James P. Hogan |
| 1985 | Star Trek: Ishmael | Barbara Hambly |
| 1986 | Aquiliade | SP Somtow |
| 1987 | Sphere - The thoughts of evil | Michael Crichton |
| 1987 | A Tale of Time City | Diana Wynne Jones |
| 1988 | Replay - The second game | Ken Grimwood |
| 1988 | Lightning | Dean Koontz |
| 1988 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen |
| 1989 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons |
| 1989 | In the garden of the seven twilight | Miquel de Palol |
| 1990 | Langoliers | Stephen King |
| 1990 | The shield of time | Poul Anderson |
| 1991– | Fire and Stone (first volume in the Outlander series) | Diana Gabaldon |
| 1992 | The Guns of the South | Harry Turtledove |
| 1992 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis |
| 1993 | The Cross-Time Engineer | Leo Frankowski |
| 1994 | Another Story OR A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| 1995 | The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary | Greg Egan |
| 1995 | From time to time | Jack Finney |
| 1995 | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter |
| 1996 | The oil shale skeleton | Bernhard Kegel |
| 1996 | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1996 | Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | Orson Scott Card |
| 1996 | Animorphs | KA Applegate |
| 1997 | In the Garden of Iden | Kage Baker |
| 1997 | Make history | Stephen Fry |
| 1997 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis |
| 1997 | Corrupting Dr. Nice | John Kessel |
| 1998 | The Jesus video | Andreas Eschbach |
| 1998 | The Transall Saga | Gary Paulsen |
| 1998 | A Scientific Romance | Ronald Wright |
| 1998 | Island in the Sea of Time | SM Stirling |
| 1998 | The Sterkarm handshake | Susan Price |
| 1999 | King of Shadows | Susan Cooper |
| 1999 | FlashForward | Robert J. Sawyer |
| 1999 | timeline | Michael Crichton |
| 1999 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | JK Rowling |
| 2000 | The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke , Stephen Baxter |
| 2000 | 1632 | Eric Flint |
| 2001 | The Chronoliths | Robert Charles Wilson |
| 2001 | The time thief | Terry Pratchett |
| 2002 | Bones of the Earth | Michael Swanwick |
| 2002 | Night watch | Terry Pratchett |
| 2002 | Counting up, counting down | Harry Turtledove |
| 2002 | Kaleidoscope Century | John Barnes |
| 2002 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde |
| 2003 | Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu | Nagaru Tanigawa |
| 2003 | The wife of the time traveler | Audrey Niffenegger |
| 2004 | Axis of Time | John Birmingham |
| 2004 | L'Éclat de Dieu | Romain Sardou |
| 2004 | All You Need Is Kill | Hiroshi Sakurazaka |
| 2004-2005 | Warcraft: War of the Ancients Trilogy | Richard A. Knaak |
| 2005 | Mammoth | John Varley |
| 2005 | 42 | Thomas Lehr |
| 2005 | The Cusanus game | Wolfgang Jeschke |
| 2005-2016 | The time detectives | Fabian Lenk |
| 2006 | The Plot to Save Socrates | Paul Levinson |
| 2006 | Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony | Eoin Colfer |
| 2007 | Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey | Chuck Palahniuk |
| 2007 | Meet The Robinsons | Steve Anderson |
| 2007 | The Accidental Time Machine | Joe Haldeman |
| 2008 | Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox | Eoin Colfer |
| 2008 | Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| 2009 | Sent | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| 2009 | Ruby red (see love goes through all times ) | Kerstin Greed |
| 2010 | Sapphire blue (see love goes through all times ) | Kerstin Greed |
| 2010 | Emerald green (see love goes through all times ) | Kerstin Greed |
| 2010 | Sabotaged | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| 2010 | Blackout / All Clear | Connie Willis |
| 2010 | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu |
| 2010 | El mapa del tiempo | Félix J. Palma |
| 2011 | The attack | Stephen King |
| 2012 | Amber House | Kelly Moore , Tucker Reed , Larkin Reed |
| 2012 | Riddle of the Red Bible | KT Jae |
| 2013 | Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers | Dav Pilkey |
| 2013 | Life after Life | Kate Atkinson |
| 2014 | The Jesus deal | Andreas Eschbach |
| 2014 | Neverwas | Kelly Moore , Tucker Reed , Larkin Reed |
| 2014 | Zeitriss , Volume 2800 of the Perry Rhodan series , the beginning of a cycle playing with time travel themes . | Michelle Stern |
| 2014 | Zeitfuge ( Hollow World ) | Michael J. Sullivan |
| 2014 | Harry August's many lives | Claire North |
| 2016 | Loop City, or: The City of the Setting Sun | Travis Elling / Pagan Eosen |
| 2016 | The lost time | Axel Ertelt |
| 2017 | The best of my worlds | Elan Mastai |
| 2018 | The Psychology of Time Travel | Kate Mascarenhas |
| 2018 | Eleven times to come. Fantastic stories | Carlos Suchowolski |
| 2019 | Cryonium. The experiments of memory | Matthias AK Zimmermann |
See also
Web links
- Amy Goldschläger: Science Fiction & Fantasy: . In: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Homepage . Retrieved January 29, 2007.
- Storypilot's Big List of Adventures in Time Travel . Retrieved August 11, 2010.
- The Ultimate Science Fiction Webguide . Magic Dragon Multimedia. 2004. Retrieved January 30, 2007.
- Scifipedia . Scifi.com. January 10, 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2007.
- UltimateTimeTravel - the best source on the web for finding time travel books, time travel movies, and time travel computer games