Temporal/Dimensional Science Fiction
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Major Themes:
  • Time travel or alternate dimensions are used to explore cause and effect both large and small scale.
  • Main characters often unwittingly alter their present or future for the ill.
  • Often used as a vehicle to explore historically significant persons or events, such as the Civil War, Adolf Hitler, the Roman Empire, and presidential elections.
  • The contrast between other timelines and our own is often used to illustrate  social or moral insights.
Major Contributing Authors:
  • Connie Willis: "The Doomsday Book" is the first in a series about time travelers.
  • Harry Turtledove: often uses the Civil War or World War II as turning points to create alternate timelines.
  • John Barnes: two opposing forces wage war across timelines to push their influence as far as possible.
  • Jack L. Chalker: the G.O.D., Inc. series thrusts its protagonists into a maze of parallel dimensions where they learn how their lives and their worlds have been shaped.
Great books you can buy from 
  • coverThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells.  A man journeys far into the future and is appalled by the degeneration of humankind.
  • Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock.  A man’s journey into the Biblical past yields many surprises about the life of Jesus Christ.
  • coverMaking History : A Novel by Stephen Fry.  A young scientist’s attempts to thwart the Holocaust teach him the nature of human destiny.
  • The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.  An exploration of many time travel theories and cliches woven into a short novel.
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood.  A man wakes up to find himself young again and again.
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