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23 science fiction books to read after Millennium, by John Varley, the closest match first.

  1. The Langoliers

    1. The Langoliers

    by King, Stephen

    • On the same lists

    This novella was published in a collection of stories called 'Four Past Midnight'. Ten people awake on a red-eye flight, only to find that the other passengers and crew are...

  2. Thief Of Time

    2. Thief Of Time

    by Pratchett, Terry

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    Time itself is threatened— and it's up to the History Monks to save it in Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld® series Everybody wants more time. Which is why, on Discworld, only...

  3. 1988: Replay

    3. 1988: Replay

    by Grimwood, Ken

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    At the age of 43, Jeff Winston has a heart attack in his office... and wakes up to discover that he is 18 and a college student again. It's 1963,...

  4. Bid Time Return (1976)

    4. Bid Time Return (1976)

    by Matheson, Richard

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    Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson won the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel

  5. The Door Into Summer

    5. The Door Into Summer

    by Heinlein, Robert A.

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    1970. A.D. Daniel Boone Davis is an inventor of household robots, who's been cheated out of his patents and company by a conniving friend and girlfriend, who stop just short...

  6. The Accidental Time Machine

    6. The Accidental Time Machine

    by Haldeman, Joe

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    Imagine inventing a time machine by accident! Well, Matt does, and it's a doozie. Built-in safety: can only travel into the future. Built-in quirk: every subsequent jump will be longer...

  7. Lightning

    7. Lightning

    by Dean Koontz

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    The second best of Koontz's novels (the best was 'Strangers') uses time-travel as a device by Adolf Hitler to change the outcome of WW2. (It didn't end too well for...

  8. Thrice Upon A Time

    8. Thrice Upon A Time

    by James P. Hogan

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    Sending objects back in time—that is, from the 'now' to somewhere before the 'now'—is pretty much the same things as sending 'information' in general. Same goes for the future. The...

  9. A Sound Of Thunder

    9. A Sound Of Thunder

    by Bradbury, Ray

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    An example of time tourism, this novel is the source of the phrase, "butterfly effect" because a butterfly dies and the traveller's future is altered.

    The future, not so far away. Neo-fascists are still battling it out with liberals. Time machines exist. Eckles, hunter extraordinaire, wants to go back in time on a safari to...

  10. The End Of Eternity

    10. The End Of Eternity

    by Asimov, Isaac

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    Guardians of time steer history along safe paths, ultimately stagnating humanity--an example of the common theme of time police.

    'Eternity' is an organization that's kind of 'above time', is that makes any sense at all. I mean, how can you be? Still, they are, and they can go here...

  11. A Rebel In Time

    11. A Rebel In Time

    by Harry Harrison

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    Colonel McCulloch is a good old-fashioned white racist. Agent Troy Harmon, who is black, is supposed to find out what's going on when McCulloch becomes a murder suspect. McCulloch is...

  12. Hawksbill Station

    12. Hawksbill Station

    by Silverberg, Robert

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    Prison's overflowing, costing taxpayers too much money and occasioning bleeding-heart liberals to bemoan the terrible state of the penal system? Here's the solution: get rid of the blighters; without killing...

  13. The Proteus Operation

    13. The Proteus Operation

    by James P. Hogan

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    Unlike Hogan's 'Thrice Upon A Time' (#6), here we have people going back in time physically. The story is set in a universe in which the Axis countries (Germany, Italy,...

  14. The Chronoliths

    14. The Chronoliths

    by Robert Charles Wilson

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    Scott and his buddy Hitch chance upon a huge monolith, made of an indestructible material, that suddenly appears in the Thai jungle. And it doesn't just appear quietly, but with...

  15. Steel Beach

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    15. Steel Beach

    by John Varley

    • Same author

    Alien invaders have obliterated human life on Earth, and the survivors have scattered through the rest of the Solar System. The most heavily populated colony is Luna, the Steel Beach...

  16. Behold The Man

    16. Behold The Man

    by Moorcock, Michael

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    A story that is inspired by the Gospel of John and is about a man who travels back in time with the intent of meeting Jesus.

    The grandfather paradox – which states that if you go back in time and accidentally kill your grandfather you will never be born, so you cannot travel back in time...

  17. 1632

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    17. 1632

    by Eric Flint

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    So, this is what happened in another universe. 2000 A.D. A town called Grantville, West Virginia, isn't there anymore. Some whimsical aliens drew a circle around it, about six miles...

  18. The Ophiuchi Hotline

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    18. The Ophiuchi Hotline

    by John Varley

    • Same author

    Earth has been taken over by bizarre beings, and Man has made a new life on other planets, a strange life made possible by information provided by beings from Ophiuchi.

  19. The Golden Globe

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    19. The Golden Globe

    by John Varley

    • Same author

    From back cover Ace paperback September 1999: *All the universe is a stage* -- and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He makes his way from planet to planet as...

  20. Timescape (1981)

    20. Timescape (1981)

    by Benford, Gregory

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    A novel about ecological issues and scientific experiments that address current events at the time of writing.

    In 1998 an ecological catastrophe is poisoning the oceans and the atmosphere. A group of scientists in Cambridge try to send a message back in time using tachyons, particles that...

  21. The Anubis Gates

    21. The Anubis Gates

    by Powers, Tim

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    An award winning novel that has time travel, historical figures, Egyptian mythology, and 19th century England.

    In creating this world, Powers borrowed ideas from all over the place. Mythology, Ancient Egyptian theology, quantum theory, and classical literature“ they're all used in The Anubis Gates. It's a...

  22. Footprints Of Thunder

    22. Footprints Of Thunder

    by James F. David

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    This book was made into a movie, and a pretty good one at that, though by necessity not as complex and in-depth as the book. Crichton does have a habit...

  23. The Time Machine

    23. The Time Machine

    by Wells, H. G.

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    Follow a time traveller into an alien-like future Earth to witness the consequences of humanity's social and biological choices and evolution.

    A mechanical contraption that lets you travel back in time. Classic steampunk from a classic author.

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