There and return: time travel novels

Ana was supposed to spend the summer before the college visited German castles and drank in myths of saints and miracles. But when Ana attends a party in the sacred caves of the Eadin forest, an earthquake is hitting and the revelers fall into a snowy landscape to find a furious battle that is raging. In chaos, Ana is separated from the group and realizes that it was transported to the 14th century without obvious means of returning. Nothing is as it seems, and Ana finds itself taken in a power struggle between the Church, the men of the North and a young magnetic lord determined to use it as a negotiation currency. |
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Time travel is generally difficult to wrap your head and I like it best when it is just magic – a magic phone or an apartment with a strange relationship for time for example – because I can accept magic more easily than I can conceive of a multiverse or even the most basic explanation of quantum physics. Time travel stories help us to remind us that the people of the past were like us and, probably, the people of the future will be too. They also lead to the types of hijinks and misunderstandings which often make perfect and heartbreaking decisions to meet and tear on where in time we really belong. Sometimes they connect to us with previous versions of ourselves and, as Joan Didion once warned, it is important not to lose contact with the people we were.
Time travel novels are also a great escape from the banal present, and also for the complication of a romance crossed in stars with all its complications, but a happy end guaranteed. We all deserve a little trip far from that moment. Wrap your bags, we will travel back in time. Keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle and beware of time shots, curls and wrinkles in time.
Fixed line By Rainbow RowellA magic phone connects Georgie, a television writer who plans to leave her marriage, to the version of her husband whom she met at university. She finds herself to celebrate Christmas without her family, and she must determine if her phone calls with her past are an opportunity to repair her marriage before he even begins, or if she and her husband would have been better if they had never married at all. |
The seven -year -old briefs By Ashley PostonAshley Poston is one of my favorite romantic writers. In The seven -year -old briefsA woman named Clémentine inherits her apartment at the end of aunt. In mourning the loss of her favorite person, she returns to the house one day to discover a man standing in her kitchen – a man who exists seven years in the past. How can they continue their connection when it literally exists in its future? |
Temporal curls and endless by Jackie LauWhen Noelle Tom receives dumplings on a night market and it is said that they will give her what she needs most, she does not expect to find herself in a time loop. Now she lives the same Friday and again, doing the same job at work. Cam, owner of the brasserie, continues to appear in several places on Friday – is the key to peeling off in time? |
A last stop by Casey McquistonOf the author of Red, white and royal blue,, A last stop presents us in August, who is 23 years old and thinks that being the only way is the best way to spend life. New in New York, she lives with a bunch of roommates and works in a pancake restaurant 24 hours a day. She develops a crush on a metro for a woman named Jane – only to discover that she is literally moved from the 1970s. |
Yesterday is the story by Kosoko JacksonIn this YA novel, Andre Cobb recently underwent a liver transplant, then, a few days later, woke up in 1969, where he met a boy named Michael. During his unexpected return to the current Boston, he meets the family of his donor and he was told that his new liver came with a side effect – the ability to travel in time. Blake, the youngest son of the family, is responsible for showing him how to control his new power. Andre is torn between the past and the present – and between Michael and Blake. |
Many and many by Chatham GreenfieldHere is another novel Ya. Here, Phoebe has been stuck on August 6 for almost a month. Every day is the same and is consumed by research on how it could finally reach tomorrow, and a long-awaited appointment with a doctor who could be able to help her with his IBS. A car accident brings someone else to this time loop: his childhood crush, Jess. Now, Phoebe has something new to fear – if the time loop ends, will Jess’s attention will end too? |
This is how you lose the war of time by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneA love story covering time and space, This is how you lose the war of time tells the story of two agents on the opposite sides of a conflict. Both are trying to ensure the best possible future for their faction, but if they have discovered it, they will both be put to death. Can they change both the past and the future? |
No matter the direction you choose to go from here, I hope you enjoyed our trip through love stories that extend over years, decades or more.