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Six of the Best … Time Travel Stories
Who among us hasn’t dreamed of travelling through time? Not necessarily to change anything, but just to have a look. Many of us would love to leap forward and see the consequences of our actions, or...
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“The Penultimate Truth” by Philip K. Dick (1964)
“A fog can drift in from outside and get you; it can invade.” It’s been a very hot week and I really should have picked up something light and easy to read instead of a dystopian novel from the 1960s...
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“Thunderhead” by Neal Shusterman (2018)
“Peach velvet with embroidered baby-blue trim.” Last year, fiction conquered death. I’m now back with the sequel. As ever when reviewing a sequel, spoilers are abound so if you haven’t read Scythe or...
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“Skin” by Liam Brown (2019)
“It’s hard to think of you as anything other than an egg.” I’m quite a tactile person. There’s something pleasant about being close to the people you love, and while these days many of my...
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“Trouble On Titan” by Alan. E Nourse (1954)
“Telegram! Telegram for Tucker Benedict!” I picked up this book in one of my favourite London bookshops, Skoob. A paradise of second-hand books, the place is heaving with titles you’d never know about...
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“Before The Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (2019)
“Oh gosh, is that the time?” I think we all sometimes want to have access to a time machine. We’d like to go back and explore older times, or have one more day with those we’ve lost, or maybe skip...
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“The Accidental Time Machine” by Joe Haldeman (2007)
“The story would have been a lot different if Matt’s supervisor had been watching him when the machine first went away.” The way things are right now, I wouldn’t mind a time machine. Forwards or...
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“The Future Of Another Timeline” by Annalee Newitz (2019)
“Drums beat in the distance like an amplified pulse.” The global conversation is seemingly in unison right now. Everyone is either arguing that they should all have the same rights in whatever country...
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“Dreams Before The Start Of Time” by Anne Charnock (2017)
“This year’s crop of apples is so poor that Betty Matheson counts the overnight windfalls when she opens her bedroom shutters each morning.” The nuclear family still exists for many people, but there...
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“To Be Taught, If Fortunate” by Becky Chambers (2019)
“If you read nothing else we’ve sent home, please at least read this.” It’s a shame that I’m unlikely to witness much space travel in my lifetime. There is a lot of talk about returning to the moon and...
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“Hazards Of Time Travel” by Joyce Carol Oates (2018)
“They would not have come for me, naively I drew their attention to me.” I really need to stop reading dystopian futures in the current climate. Never mind, here we go again. Adriane Strohl hsa been...
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“Proximity” by Jem Tugwell (2019)
“For the first time in ten years, the real me walked free.” Imagine if not only your phone knew where you were all the time, but the police knew too. Imagine if your FitBit not only tracked your...
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“Record Of A Spaceborn Few” by Becky Chambers (2018)
“Mom, can I go see the stars?” I’m back for the third part of Becky Chambers’s outstanding Wayfarers series, and it continues to be as wonderful as ever. Although it does relate to the previous two...
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“Battlestar Suburbia” by Chris McCrudden (2018)
“If you took the wrong turning off the A32222 Earth-Mars highway (via Dewsbury) you ended up among the Dolestars.” I’ve been reading an awful lot of murder mysteries recently, so I thought it might be...
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“The Last Day” by Andrew Hunter Murray (2020)
“Two thirty a.m., and no signal yet.” Look, I half made myself a promise a while ago to stop reading dystopian stories while the world still feels like one, but if I did I’d be wiping out many great...
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“The First Church On The Moon” by J. M. R. Higgs (2013)
“Jennifer Hammerpot, the Agnostic Bishop of Southwark, looked at the moon buggy with suspicion.” If you ask me, and there’s surely a reason people don’t, it’s been far too long since any of us stepped...
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“Falling Dark” by Tom Lloyd (2021)
“A level tone lost in the dark.” There’s no telling what we’ll find out in the darkest corners of the universe when (or if) humanity ever gets there. Tom Lloyd, however, has an idea, and it’s not...
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“Anthracite” by Matt Thomas (2021)
“The sound of samba drifting up from Aberdare’s Latin Quarter filled the bar with its contagious rhythm.” The trick sometimes to getting a new book out there is to spot a gap in the market. For...
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“Five Minds” by Guy Morpuss (2021)
“What to call it?” The human population is due to hit eight billion in around a month’s time. That’s November 2022, for those of you in the future, already dealing with this. This rapid growth is one...
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“Tender Is The Flesh” by Agustina Bazterrica (2017)
“Carcass.” My small, barely-remarked-upon, first novel was about a cannibal, but done in a way that complemented the gore with silliness. It was a comedy with a horrific cannibal at its heart. To me, I...
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