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Beyond Broadhall by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe concluding installment of the acclaimed time-travel novel. To read the first installment, search for 'The '86 Fix' on Amazon. After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired... -
![The Stubborn Lives of Hart Tanner: A Middle Falls Time Travel story by Shawn Inmon]()
The Stubborn Lives of Hart Tanner: A Middle Falls Time Travel story by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHart Tanner is a con man. A grifter who enjoys gaming people as much as does whatever ill-gotten gains he might receive.When he dies an embarrassing, pain-riddled death, he is beyond surprised to wake up at an earlier point in his life with all memories still intact... -
![Tuned Out by Keith A. Pearson]()
Tuned Out by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"One of those books which leaves you feeling bereft when you get to the end. An addictive page-turner laced with hilarity, poignancy and nostalgia." Toby Grant spends his days working for a digital marketing agency and his nights stressing about how unfair life is for his generation... -
![Return from Kragdon-ah by Shawn Inmon]()
Return from Kragdon-ah by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlex Hawk has spent six years in Kragdon-ah. He has led armies, won battles, and seen strange and fantastic creatures.He has been continually frustrated in his efforts to return to the twenty-first century and his daughter Amy.Return from Kragdon-ah not only wraps up this epic trilogy with more surprises, twists, and turns, it will reveal whether Alex Hawk will ever make it home... -
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![Warrior of Kragdon-ah by Shawn Inmon]()
Warrior of Kragdon-ah by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlex Hawk spent a decade trying to return from Kragdon-ah. Now he is safely back in the twenty-first century with daughters Amy and Sanda and his loyal, giant dog.All is peaceful and good until, ten years later, Alex hears an incredible commotion in the basement where the door into time still stands safely behind a brick wall.The wall has fallen... -
![Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins]()
Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you were catapulted back to 1976, what would you do?Meet Jason Apsley, a forty-two-year-old divorcee, who's an opinionated miserable bugger. Struggling with life which is exacerbated by his negative attitude.A random event shifts time, causing Jason to continue life in 1976, six months before he's due to be born... -
![Speakeasy Book 1 by Elyse Douglas]()
Speakeasy Book 1 by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsONE MINUTE, SINGER ROXIE RAINES is in a 2019 West Village nightclub and the next, she’s traveled back in time to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties! Her modern sound captivates an eager audience and she’s falling in love with a handsome detective, but can her out-of-time dream life truly last?Struggling West Village singer Roxie Raines stumbles through a secret basement doorway in 2019, and... -
![Doctor Who: To the Death by Nicholas Briggs, Paul McGann]()
Doctor Who: To the Death by Nicholas Briggs, Paul McGann
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'He can't be alive...'After a last, futile fight-back against the Daleks, Lucie, Susan and Alex are heading home to England in the desperate hope of saving the Doctor's life. But the true, terrible nature of the Daleks' plan is beginning to emerge and the Monk has blood on his hands.To defeat the Daleks, it can only be a struggle… to the death... -
![Rolling South by Peter Rhodan]()
Rolling South by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsArturo Sandus, former Federation Space Captain is building a new life in Britannia of the early 5th Century. He is industrializing the moribund northern part of the dying Roman Empire while slowly expanding his control to areas of Gaul and Hispania... -
![A Pause in Space-Time by Laurence E. Dahners]()
A Pause in Space-Time by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis novella length hard Sci-Fi book begins the “Stasis Stories,” a series of tales from the near future. They tell us about Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man who uses his extraordinary math talents to work out a way to stop time within limited volumes of space-time. He and Arya Vaii, a business student, set out to develop the phenomenon... -
![Foreign Travels by Peter Rhodan]()
Foreign Travels by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler, is now working on improving the tech level of the Roman Empire, stepping away from civil and military activities. His aim now is to build up the tech level to a point where he can build a spaceship that will hopefully take him home. A development that is still decades away, at least... -
![The Travelers: Book 2 by Lee Hunnicutt]()
The Travelers: Book 2 by Lee Hunnicutt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book picks up where the last book left off. Jack, Sonny and Beth are transported back to the ancient Indian burial cave in the jungles of the 1970s Panama Canal Zone. After spending time in the Canal Zone, they return to 1875 San Francisco and reunite with Anne... -
![Time Shift: A Historical Novel Of Survival by Victor Zugg]()
Time Shift: A Historical Novel Of Survival by Victor Zugg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA time travel historical adventure.Jackson Lee is a well-known adventure vlog influencer. He and a small support crew have been cashing in on the video craze with phenomenal, hair-raising exploits for years.Their latest undertaking is way beyond anything they’ve ever done. It’s extremely dangerous and, worse, highly illegal... -
![ASIN: B08MDG7DZK by S.A. Ison]()
ASIN: B08MDG7DZK by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMica and Malisa Flores learn that their missing mother, Ivy, isn’t missing at all. Her sudden disappearance three years before has left the sisters devastated. They are given a mysterious journal written by their long-lost mother. Their mother was pushed back 17,000 years into the past, into the Paleolithic era... -
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![Kill the Power Gamer by Eric Vall]()
Kill the Power Gamer by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe is the perfect killing machine, an organic human replica designed with one purpose only: to travel back in time and murder the father and mother of the robot army’s greatest enemy. He was a full time retail employee with dreams of becoming a professional gamer. But little did he know that his perfect woman was about to travel back in time to change history. This is a stand alone novel... -
![Free to Infect, First to Die by Ian C.P. Irvine]()
Free to Infect, First to Die by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuring a daring raid on a secret Pirate stronghold in the Caribbean, Captain Rob McGregor of the Sea Dancer and his own pirate crew steal the infamous treasure belonging to Captain William Kidd. Rich beyond their wildest dreams, Captain McGregor and his band of pirates set out to sea, their ships' holds full of pirate booty... -
![Getting Fired Up by Peter Rhodan]()
Getting Fired Up by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsArturo Sandus, Federation Space Captain is a long, long way from home, but he is building a new home in Britannia of the early 5th Century. His plan to industrialize a moribund northern part of the dying Roman Empire is progressing but not without issues. His memory and lack of knowledge is proving troublesome... -
![Doctor Who: The TARDIS Handbook by Steve Tribe]()
Doctor Who: The TARDIS Handbook by Steve Tribe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the Eleventh Doctor and Amy embark on all-new adventures in time and space, The TARDIS Handbook gives you the inside scoop on 900 years of travel aboard the Doctor's famous time machine. Everything you need to know about the TARDIS is here - where it came from, where it's been, how it works, and how it has changed since we first encountered it in a London junkyard in 1963... -
![Eschaton by Andrew Hastie]()
Eschaton by Andrew Hastie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime is running out.The Eschaton crises are converging.Josh may be the only one who can save them, but he's trapped in the future. The third book in the original Infinity Engines series, Eschaton continues this action-packed, dystopian time travel adventure. The Oblivion Order is falling apart, and the timeline is beginning to unravel... -
![Doctor Who: The Light at the End by Nicholas Briggs]()
Doctor Who: The Light at the End by Nicholas Briggs
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNovember 23rd 1963 proves to be a significant day in the lives of all eight Doctors…It's the day that Bob Dovie's life is ripped apart…It's also a day that sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events which forces the first eight incarnations of the Doctor to fight for their very existence... -
![Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary by Jason Loborik]()
Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary by Jason Loborik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJUST WHO IS THE DOCTOR?Now updated with all the latest information on all your Doctor Who favorites!The secrets of this mysterious time traveler lie within the pages of Doctor Who The Visual Dictionary , a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to his world... -
![Time Travellers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson]()
Time Travellers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsHuman or otherwise, regardless of race, creed or dimension of origin, if you're looking for a good time in a place where the beer is always flowing, and the stories always out of this world, step up to the bar at Callahan's... -
![Sailing East by Peter Rhodan]()
Sailing East by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFlavius Theodosius Iunior, by the grace of God, Augustus of the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire was having a bad day... -
![One Second Per Second by S.D. Unwin]()
One Second Per Second by S.D. Unwin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe greatest scientific challenge of our age wasn’t to enable time travel, it was to prevent it. The laws of physics had turned out to be idiotic, erecting no barriers to hopping time. In fact, they make it hard to avoid. I’m in the business of preserving the timeline—making sure the world sticks to the sacred rule of One Second Per Second, and that history unfolds according to plan... -
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![Pangaea: Exiles by Jeff Brackett]()
Pangaea: Exiles by Jeff Brackett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTried and convicted for his crimes, Sean Barrow is sent into temporal exile—banished to a time so far before recorded history that there is no chance that he, or any other criminal sent back, has any chance of altering history... -
![The Terminator by Shaun Hutson]()
The Terminator by Shaun Hutson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created THE TERMINATOR... -
![Changer by Matt Gemmell]()
Changer by Matt Gemmell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDESTINY CAN BE CHANGED.Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends.Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an elite EU special forces team, codenamed KESTREL, drawing him into a race against time to prevent a disaster that will claim millions of lives... -
![The War Doctor: Only the Monstrous by Nicholas Briggs]()
The War Doctor: Only the Monstrous by Nicholas Briggs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree new battles for The War Doctor1.1 The InnocentAs the Daleks mass their time fleet for a final assault on Gallifrey, something ancient is waiting for them at Omega One. And a sacrifice must be made.Arch manipulator and Time Lord strategist, Cardinal Ollistra receives shock news of the Doctor’s death... -
![Man Out Of Time by Jason Ayres]()
Man Out Of Time by Jason Ayres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do if you found yourself cast 22 years into the future? Into a world where your home is no longer yours and you've been declared legally dead?This is the situation that Daniel Fisher finds himself as the latest Time Bubble story begins. Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse very quickly...Categorized as:
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![Phelix by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews]()
Phelix by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollow the Bradbeer family and their adventures once again in PHELIX, the second offering of The Time Store. RULE NUMBER TWO OF TIME TRAVEL, LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND. London. A borough steeped in history. Home of the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and the PRIME MERIDIAN. Also home to the Bradbeers, a family of Time Travellers. The year is 1913... -
![Taking Off by Peter Rhodan]()
Taking Off by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsArturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler has finally defeated the last remnants of the old Imperial forces and secured the borders of the Empire. He has restored the Roman Republic, admittedly an all-new modern and hopefully longer-lasting Republic, and is looking forward to some time at home with his lovely wife, Morghanna... -
![The Far Arena by Richard Ben Sapir]()
The Far Arena by Richard Ben Sapir
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Far Arena is a novel by Richard Sapir, writing as Richard Ben Sapir. It chronicles the adventures of Eugeni, a Roman gladiator from Domitian's period, who, due to an unlikely series of events, is frozen in ice for 1900 years before being found by the Houghton Oil Company on a prospecting mission in the N. Atlantic. Lew McCardle is a geologist working for Houghton...Categorized as:
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![Timediver's Dawn by L.E. Modesitt Jr.]()
Timediver's Dawn by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe author of The Fires of Paratime returns readers to the world of witches, high technology and space travel, of science and superstition--a world so short of energy resources that all fuels are grown or captured from the sun. It is on this world that a lone man must achieve the impossible... -
![The Best of C.L. Moore by C.L. Moore]()
The Best of C.L. Moore by C.L. Moore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsForty Years of C. L. Moore '75 essay by Lester del Rey Shambleau [Northwest Smith] '33 novelette by C. L. Moore Black Thirst [Northwest Smith] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore The Bright Illusion '34 story by C. L. Moore Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore Tryst in Time '36 novelette by C. L. Moore Greater Than Gods '39 novelette by C. L... -
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![The Time Store by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews]()
The Time Store by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRULE NUMBER ONE OF TIME TRAVEL, PRESERVE TRUE TIME. Greenwich, London. A borough steeped in history. Home of the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and the PRIME MERIDIAN. Also home to the Bradbeers, a family of Time Travellers. If you’re lucky, the Bradbeers will help you live your dreams or recapture lost time... -
![The Prophet's Stone by Matthew O. Duncan]()
The Prophet's Stone by Matthew O. Duncan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt had been ten years since Roy came to New Terra. At the conclusion of the great interstellar war against the Serpent People, Roy went from being an Ace fighter pilot to a simple farmer, married to his beloved wife Katreena and father to their three beautiful children. He had discovered a happiness that he had long given up on having again in his lifetime... -
![Trials and Tribble-Ations by Diane Carey, Ronald D. Moore]()
Trials and Tribble-Ations by Diane Carey, Ronald D. Moore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlmost a century ago, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise first encountered the irresistible (and astonishingly prolific) lifeform known as the tribbles, resulting in one of the most unusual adventures in the annals of Starfleet... -
![Operation Time Search by Andre Norton]()
Operation Time Search by Andre Norton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSnooping around a top-secret government installation, photographer Ray Osborne stumbled across an experimental time field. Suddenly the familiar Ohio landscape disappeared and Ray found himself transported to a prehistoric world where the dread priest of Atlantis waged a war against the Sun-born of Mu... -
![Doctor Who: Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies]()
Doctor Who: Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form."The Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz, arrive at the Quadrant, a troubled council block in Thatcher's Britain. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved... -
![Before the Golden Age 1 by Isaac Asimov]()
Before the Golden Age 1 by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s, #1 of 4Contents:* The Man Who Evolved / Edmond Hamilton; * The Jameson Satellite / Neil R. Jones; * Submicroscopic / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Awlo of Ulm / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Tetrahedra of Space / P. Schuyler Miller; * The World of the Red Sun / Clifford D. Simak. Originally 26 stories published in one hardcover volume... -
![All the Traps of Earth and other stories by Clifford D. Simak]()
All the Traps of Earth and other stories by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternative cover for same ISBN: here.A collection of Simak's sci-fi stories... -
![The Third Level by Jack Finney]()
The Third Level by Jack Finney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Third LevelSuch Interesting NeighborsI’m ScaredCousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective CellarOf Missing PersonsSomething in a CloudThere Is a Tide.. -
![Farishta by Marc Pastor]()
Farishta by Marc Pastor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmb un punt de partida apassionant, girs argumentals imprevisibles i una imaginació pròpia dels mestres del thriller fantàstic, la nova novel·la de Marc Pastor conjuga intriga i aventura per atrapar el lector i mantenir-lo aferrat sense treva a les seves pàgines.Acaba d’acomplir els divuit anys i la Farishta, desinhibida i valenta, ja ha trobat la feina de la seva vida... -
![Lungbarrow by Marc Platt]()
Lungbarrow by Marc Platt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Nonsense, child", retorted the Doctor. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history... -
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![Three Feet of Sky: Book One by Stephen Ayres]()
Three Feet of Sky: Book One by Stephen Ayres
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf humanity created an afterlife, would you be accepted?Adam Eden confronts a world of predatory psychopaths, an annoying concierge, and a naked neighbour ... with a peculiar talent.After years of destitution, Adam Eden's life is finally on the up. But, whilst out celebrating his recent good fortune, Adam unwittingly chooses death over embarrassment... -
![dr who the silent stars go by by Dan Abnett]()
dr who the silent stars go by by Dan Abnett
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsscience...Categorized as:
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![The Weapon Shops of Isher by A.E. van Vogt]()
The Weapon Shops of Isher by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWith the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops... -
![Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch, James Goss]()
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch, James Goss
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith unfinished business to attend to, the Seventh Doctor returns to where it all began: Coal Hill School in London in 1963. Last time he was here, the Doctor left something behind – a powerful Time Lord artefact that could unlock the secrets of time travel... -
![Doctor Who and the Ark in Space by Ian Marter]()
Doctor Who and the Ark in Space by Ian Marter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt a time in the far off future, Earth has become inhospitable. A selection of humanity is placed deep frozen in a fully automated space station to await the day of their return to earth.. -
![The Voices Of Time by J.G. Ballard]()
The Voices Of Time by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSusan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Burroughs, Robert Nye and Angela Carter are among the host of admirers of J. G. Ballard's fiction...
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