time-travel novels

Lost has a lot of time-travel themes involved, so I thought maybe some of you would have a parallel interest in novels about time travel. I'm interested in novels about time travel, but really just time travel that exists within your own lifetime. Here are some novels I've read:

Time Traveler's Wife; the main character travels back and forth in time within his own lifetime, but he has no control of when or where,great read, powerful love story, themes of time travel and fate;

Replay, by Ken Grimwood; about a man who has to "replay" his life over and over again: after dying, he reappears somewhere in his own life again, but he can make different choices. More playing around with fate.

A Shortcut in Time, by Charles Dickinson; about a small town with some sort of time travel "portal"; didn't like it as much because it had an unsatisfying ending . . .

Does anybody else have recommendations for good time-travel fiction?

I also enjoyed Time Traveler's Wife. It's on my top ten list for sure.

Others involving time travel:

Time and Again, by Jack Finney. I read this years ago but remember enjoying it. The time travel parts aren't as well developed as in other novels and this one was written more than 30 years ago.

Kindred is another I enjoyed, by Octavia Butler. This is a really excellent book where the woman travels back in time to a point when slavery was still promenent. The book deals a lot more with sexual and social issues than time travel, but it really is a great book.

I read this several years ago and really liked it.

Lightning
Dean Koontz
Published 1988
Aided through many crises by the almost miraculous intervention of a stranger, Laura Shane learns the nature of her awesome destiny when, on her thirtieth birthday, the stranger finally requests her help.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've seen Time and Again on my Amazon searches. I've put a hold on it at the library. Can't wait try out the other titles too . . . though it will probably take me a while . . .

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Originally Posted by folie a deux

I read this several years ago and really liked it.

Lightning
Dean Koontz
Published 1988
Aided through many crises by the almost miraculous intervention of a stranger, Laura Shane learns the nature of her awesome destiny when, on her thirtieth birthday, the stranger finally requests her help.

This is one of My favorite books.. I have read it many times.. IT is my Favorite Dean Koontz book.. CHEERS

08:34 AM

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But I'm not a big fan of time traveling. Maybe I'm a bit influenced by my cousin who studies physics; He keeps remaining me of the "grandfather paradox": If you go back in time and kill your grandfather, you won't be born, so you can't go back in time to kill your grandfather in the first place! It just isn't possible!!