[Steve Douglas]

Maybe it's the idea of being able to go back in time and see the Beatles at the Cavern, walk in the Lake District before it became crowded,or watch dinosaurs that makes the idea of time travel fascinating to me. (or maybe its just to go back and stop yourself making an arse of yourself on that disastrous date!!)
Of course there is 'The Time Machine' by H.G Wells. Stephen Baxter did a descent follow up to the Time machine 'Time Ships' and I'm currently just about to finish 'a Scientific romance' by Ronald wright; his first effort at science fiction and very good.

Any other good examples of Time travel novels?
What would you want to do with a time machine?

[Shehzad]

How about The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov? That one's a goodie.

[Kamakhya]

The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, both by Connie Willis use time machines to travel to past eras. The Doomsday Book is about a woman who ended up in the heat of the Great Plague. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a very humerous look at the use of a time machine.

These are the two books that come immediately to mind. I read another book recently, but for the life of me I can't remember the title. It was something about a plague that struck the oceans in the future and some scientists discovered a way to send a message back in time to try and prevent it. It was a pretty cool. It was a far more scientific look at the potentials of a time machine than Willis' novels, which more or less just state they have one. Sorry I'm a space on the title.

Kamakhya

[nicba]

Kamakhya, the book you are thinking about is probably 'Timescape' by, uhm, Gregory Benford, I think. I agree, it was a very good book. A 'hard' SF approach to time travel.

Then there's 'Timeline' by Michael Chriton (spelling?). Not really that great, but then I'm not the biggest fan of any of his books.

There's also 'Eon' by Greg Bear. A very excellent book. And its not-quite-as-good (IMHO) follow-up 'Infinity' too.

'The Apocalypse Troll' by David Weber deals with a lady from the future ending up on earth together with some form of killer-robot-spaceship bent on destroying humankind or something. Althought it sounds extremely cheesy, I actually thought the book was a good, light read.

'1632' by Eric Flint - A group of ordinary Americans gets transported to Europe in year 1632 when their whole village is suddenly swallowed by some sort of space anomaliy. They get to sort out the The Thirty Years War and introduce 'American Justice' to the poor Europeans. Although (as you can probably tell) I was a little irritated by the very 'pro-American' attitude of the book, I still think it's worth reading. The characters are OK and the plot fairly well-developed. Also, the book saves itself by being rather humourous in places. Yeah, a pretty good book, all in all.

[Kamakhya]

Thanks Nicba. Timescape by Benford was the book I was talking about.

I thought the parallel plots were really well done. I loved the images he created of England in the future.

Kamakhya