Time Travel
Inspired by the classic SF device of the time machine, post-WWII mass-market works discuss the possibilities and pitfalls of time travel and include sub-genres, such as alternative history, that envision different pasts and presents. Fiction exploring travel through time can be found over centuries, but H.G. Well's The Time Machine stands as the classic of nineteenth-century science fiction that most influenced the wide-ranging works published since.
Highlights of mass-market twentieth-century science fiction held in Temple's Paskow Science Fiction Collection include below alternate history narratives about timelines in which the Confederacy won the Civil War and the Nazis won WWII. While this sort of reactionary nostalgia can be found throughout the time travel subgenre of science fiction, these narratives also offered a valuable method for subversive critiques of the present that show the potential for alternate realities.
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Revolt in 2100
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Robert A. Heinlein
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1955
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Dictatorship.
Revolutions > Revolution / Fiction.
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At the height of America's secular decadence came Nehemiah Scudder, bearing the rod and wrath of the Lord for those who opposed him, and the promise of earthly happiness and heavenly bliss for those who followed him... and America fell under an absolute religious dictatorship that was to last a hundred years. But nothing endures forever. The smoldering embers of liberty have burst into flame again. It is time for a new beginning.
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New American Library
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SciFi Corpus
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English
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The Lincoln Hunters
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Wilson Tucker
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1958
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Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 / Fiction.
Time travel > Time travel / Fiction.
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Sent back in time to record a speech by Abraham Lincoln, Ben Steward learns that he has been transported twice--on two consecutive days--and that his double still exists in the same time zone.
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Ace Books
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English
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Martian Time-Slip
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Philip K. Dick
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1964
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Corrupt practices > Real estate development / Corrupt practices / Fiction.
Mars (Planet) > Mars (Planet) / Fiction.
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On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future.
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Ballantine
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English
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Behold the Man: A Novel
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Michael Moorcock
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1966
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Jesus Christ > Jesus Christ / Fiction.
Apostles > Apostles / Fiction.
Messiah > Messiah / Fiction.
Time travel > Time travel / Fiction.
Palestine > Palestine / History / Fiction.
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Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return. Upon arriving in Palestine, A.D. 29, Glogauer finds that Jesus Christ is not the man that history and faith would like to believe, but that there is an opportunity for someone to change the course of history by making the ultimate sacrifice.
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Avon
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English
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Six Gun Planet
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John Jakes
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1970
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Space colonies > Space colonies / Fiction.
Life on other planets > Life on other planets / Fiction.
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The "civilized" government of the planet Missouri was overthrown by revolutionaries who have embraced the lifestyle and culture of the United States' Old West frontier. Suspicious of technology, the denizens of Missouri nevertheless ride robot horses and drink synthetic liquor to pass the time on a planet whose main source of income comes from exporting western souvenirs (i.e. miniature outhouses, wagons, revolvers, etc.), staging gunfights for tourists, and providing "living antiques" in the form of gunfighters being placed on other planets as zoo specimens.
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Paperback Library
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SciFi Corpus
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English
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The Indians Won
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Martin Smith
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1970
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Indians of North America > Indians of North America / Wars / Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction).
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Custer's loss at Little Bighorn is just the beginning of a route of the US Army. The tribes consolidate their power and establish their own separate nation so that in the present day they are a nuclear state within the US.
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Belmont Books
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SciFi Corpus
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English
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The Day After Doomsday: A Fantasy of Time Travel
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Rena M. Vale
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1970
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Time travel > Time travel / Fiction.
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When the Yellow Alert flashed, all flights from O'Hare Jetport were postponed indefinitely. Of the thousands of people waiting there nervously, only fifteen escaped in the sudden nuclear blast that destroyed life on Earth. The fifteen lived because they had been transported 50,000 years back through time -- to just before an earlier Doomsday. Who brought them there? Why did the chosen few include a hired killer disguised as a priest, a religious fanatic, a woman who poisoned her husband's blueberry muffins, a slumlord, a lecturer, and a farm worker? And what did their kidnappers mean by telling them they were in training for THE DAY AFTER DOOMSDAY?
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Paperback Library
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English
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The Iron Dream
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Norman Spinrad
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1972
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Fascism > Fascism / Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction).
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What if Adolf Hitler's failed 1919 political aspirations had driven him into exile in the USA? What if instead of becoming a dictator, he became a science fiction writer? This novel is science fiction as written by that alternate universe Hitler.
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Avon
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SciFi Corpus
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English
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The Texas Israeli War
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Jake Saunders
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1974
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Political kidnapping > Political kidnapping / United States / Fiction.
Israel > Israel / Fiction.
Texas > Texas / Fiction.
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On August 12, 1992, England's tiny nuclear arsenal fell on Ireland, on South Africa, and finally on China. Instantly, the planet went up in flames. In the first half year of what was to be the War of '92, half the Earth's population perished. The United States was reduced to a vast under peopled land-and, to make matters worse, Texas had seceded and taken her precious oil reserves. But Israel, virtually untouched in a world ravaged by war, was painfully overpopulated. So Sol Iglestein and Myra Kalen had come to America looking for a place to settle. As mercenaries on the side of the Union in its war with Texas, the Israelis had been promised land in exchange for their services. Leading their begraggled troops into the heartland of Texas, Sol and Myra head up Operation King. Mission: Rescue the President of the United States!
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Ballantine Books
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SciFi Corpus
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English
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Kampus
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James E. Gunn
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1977
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College > College / Fiction.
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1984 is the good old days. On America's campuses professors hawk their courses, dozens of political groups compete in violence and computer-dating means having sex with a computer. It may not be all grind, but it isn't fun and games- as one senior finds out when he kidnaps his favorite professor- and kills him for his knowledge.
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Bantam Books
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SciFi Corpus
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English
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A Rebel in Time
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Harry Harrison
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1983
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Time travel > Time travel / Fiction.
United States > History / Civil War, 1861-1865 > United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Fiction.
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In SS-GB England had lost World War II. What if the North still could lose the Civil War...
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Tor
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English
