The Book Club discussion

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https://news.google.com/?ar=1360024893

Here is a little video on time travel that appeared in today's news links (2/3/2012).

(No longer works: 2/10/12)

Finished 11/22/63 this morning. I don't think that it is a spoiler to say that, among the credits, Stephen King includes a book that this group read many years ago, in May, 1995:

Time And Again by Jack Finney

A few sites that talk about different types of the time-travel genre and present a bunch of examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_tra...
Themes/types identified:
1) Changing the past.
2) The Guardians of time.
3) Preventing a bad future.
4) Unintentional change or fulfillment.

Lists of time-travel fiction:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/24...

http://www.syossetlibrary.org/books/r...

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainm...
(A nice little slide projector presentation of some time travel selections.)

http://www.ultimatetimetravel.com/?pa...
(Another system of classification of sub-types of the genre.)

Another time-travel genre book this group has read (February, 1999):

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

It is on my shelf, but I don't remember this one. Given it was discussed during ski season, I may never have read it. :-(