Action/Adventure Aficionados discussion

Make your nominations for the time travel-themed group read for November. Please add the link for the book title or cover and tell us who the author is to facilitate the nomination process.

The poll will go up on/around October 8th.

I'm excited for the nominations. I'm under-read in the time travel genre.

How about an oldie but a goodie ... Paratime by H. Beam Piper

I'm also excited for ideas in time travel action. I haven't read many that were excellent. I think someone mentioned that Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates was time travel but I think it may have been read already?

Jonathan wrote: "I'm also excited for ideas in time travel action. I haven't read many that were excellent. I think someone mentioned that Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates was time travel but I think it may have been r..."

I second you nom.



The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers.

I dont think we read it yet.

The Anubis Gates

Timescape by Gregory Benford or The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers does sound good... I will need to check If this is available in the bookstore here...

I'd like to nominate The Myriad by R.M. Meluch. Pure fun, fast moving action adventure space opera, with characters that were sharply cut and made me laugh out loud. The time travel treatment in this on is totally unique, from an author far too under appreciated.

How about Island in the Sea of Time.

How about Armageddon 2419 A.D.? I read it years ago and it's where the character, Anthony "Buck" Rogers originated. Written in 1928 it's a novel from 2 novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan. I'm pretty sure that as well as being available in paperback it's also available on the Project Gutenberg website web sight.

How about The Accidental Time Machine?

A second thoutht might be the destiny project by James Wharton. I just picked this up on Kindle for $0.99. It looks interesting. I've already got a classic by H. B. Piper, but this looked interesting.

The poll for the November group read is up. It will close on October 15th.

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/72746

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers won the poll for the November discussion.

Whooo hooo... I like Tim Powers!

I need to find my copy of The Anubis Gates for November!

Read it many years ago - very original book.

I loved Declare, really loved "The Drawing of the Dark." My first introduction to Powers love affair with the King Arthur thing, which he took another spin on for "Last Call." Powers, Anubis this should be fun!

And, I already own a Kindle copy of it so, I'm happy about that too.

I have a fair amount of Tim Power's books, but I don't have The Drawing of the Dark. Looking forward to reading him. Boy, I say that a lot! So many books...

Yep. THe Drawing of the Dark is wonderful. It's sort of a Historical urban Fantasy. Set in ... I think the 15th century, maybe not with a surley hunchback dwarf with a sense of humor and all sorts of critters coming out of the wood work in the middle of an Ottoman attack on a European City.

Historical Fiction-Fantasy-with some butt-kikin.

Anubis ought to be a fun experience too.

And here begins my introduction to Tim Powers!

I think one that's also along these lines is The Hidden Oasis by Paul Sussman which was a good read, well written (even if it did have a bit of a multiple personality disorder).

And Declare by Powers was really good.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

In that is a quote from Powers about how he writes his Historical Fiction.

Jonathan wrote: "And here begins my introduction to Tim Powers!"

Mine, too!

This book helped coin the phrase "Steam Punk", although there are those who say this book barley suits the term.

I read this a few years back and gave it a 5 star rating.

My rating scale is 1 star awful, 2 border-line, 3 ok, 4 good, 5 very good.

So I'm not afraid to toss out a 5 star rating here and there.

A quote from Tim Powers (himself). This is from the front matter of "Declare" (the Forward) It's an interesting approach to writing historically based mysteries.

In his own words…

“In a way, I arrived at the plot for this book by the same method that astronomers use in looking for a new planet—they look for “perturbations,” wobbles, in the orbits of planets they’re aware of, and they calculate mass and position of an unseen planet whose gravitational field could have caused the observed perturbations—and then they turn their telescopes on that part of the sky and search for a gleam. I looked at all the seemingly irrelevant “wobbles” in the lives of these people—Kim Philby, his father, T.E. Lawrence, Guy Burgess—and I made it an ironclad rule that I could not change or disregard any of the recorded facts, nor rearrange any days of the calendar—and then I tried to figure out what momentous but unrecorded fact could explain them all.”