Request Science Fiction recommendations

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rrr

Thanks to all who replied with authors and books.
Thanks also for the help in using the forum and changing the title etc.
I hope that others will post in this thread, both to give and receive suggestions
Topics can go wider than just time travel. Anything that's good is welcome.
I will keep looking too.
For now I'm going back to my re-reading Jack Reacher,before trying some of the books mentioned here.
Should keep me going through a cold, dark English winter.

From what I hear, you may not have time to read as you may need to be out with the shovel, scraper, sand, and salt trying to clean up for forthcoming mess the storm is supposed to bring.

[Apache]

I am rereading L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. it was originally published in1941 and is about a history professor who is whisked back in time to Rome right before the fall. It's been a long time since I read it, but so far it is just as enjoyable as the first time I read it. The eBook also contains tribute stories by seven other authors. Well worth the price.

[ableal]

Originally Posted by rrr

For now I'm going back to my re-reading Jack Reacher,before trying some of the books mentioned here.
Should keep me going through a cold, dark English winter.

Ah, I see. Get one of your countryman Neal Asher's books. He's got a whole future timeline (The Polity) filled with nasty crabby aliens, sassy AIs and weird biology (but plausible in the no-way-this-is-real of some real nature documentaries).

The latter happens especially hard on the Spatterjay water-world, there are a few books set there, namely The Skinner and The Voyage of the Sable Keech. Reacher is a choirboy

[davtay]

Originally Posted by rrr

Nick Jones "And Then She Vanished". Very good indeed. Gripping page-turner. Time travel.

Can anyone recommend others like this?
Preferably: standalone (so a proper ending); gripping (so I don't fall asleep); not too long.

I know you requested standalone, but since the Nick Jones book is one you liked, I didn't know if you knew that there are at least 3 more in the series.

The Joseph Bridgeman Series:

1 And Then She Vanished
2 The Shadows of London
3 The Observer Effect
4 The Quantum Chain

I have listened to all four on audiobook, and I enjoyed them very much. Narrated by Ray Porter who is fantastic!

[nana77]

I'm currently reading "Time and Time Again" (2018), by Robert Silverberg: it's a collection of short stories (on time travel topics), published for the 100th anniversary of science fiction's genres. Thought I'll search more novels from this author because his writing is amazing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg
Ps: OT but if you would like to watch a time travel movie, quite peculiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

Spoiler:

[rrr]

Now reading the 4 Nick Jones books as if they were one long story. Very good.
BTW when introducing someone to SF I usually recommend Way Station by Clifford D. Simak.
His books are well written and good hearted.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by rrr

Now reading the 4 Nick Jones books as if they were one long story. Very good.
BTW when introducing someone to SF I usually recommend Way Station by Clifford D. Simak.
His books are well written and good hearted.

You might also try City, by Clifford D. Simak. I love this fix-up novel that recounts the ancient legends of humankind as told by dogs.

[bdub]

Dangerous Visions edit by Harlan Ellison

I'm about half way through it, and I'm enjoying it.

[rrr]

https://best-sci-fi-books.com/
looks interesting. Any comments?

[John F]

Originally Posted by rrr

https://best-sci-fi-books.com/
looks interesting. Any comments?

That's a lot of "best".

[Uncle Robin]

I didn't see them listed, so I'm putting a plug for Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace
Also John Scalzi's Old Man's War series and his Kaijiu Preservation Society
Kim Stanley Robinson's Marstrilogy is great, but I really love his Aurora for explicitly rejecting the entire core premise of that trilogy. Few authors do that to their own work.

And then, of course, there's Frankenstein. Stunning stuff from the mother of the genre.

[WillAdams]

Poul Anderson's novels of _The Time Patrol_ are a lot of fun and well-researched.

H. Beam Piper's "Paratime" stories often read as if they are time travel stories and all of his stuff is worth reading, with _Little Fuzzy_ being an esp. favourite.

[Rbneader]

Martha Wells Murderbot series, which starts with All Systems Red, might be a good fit. The action is good and I couldn't put them down.