Time Travel discussion

Let's choose something a little more intense this month. Time Travel novels are so often about fixing what's gone wrong, and/or are so often just plain fun... but more than one active member here has indicated that they're ready for something more dramatic, thrilling, or even dark or violent. Please don't nominate something gratuitously or graphically violent, though.

The title should be relatively new to the group, meaning that if we've read it before, it must have been read in 2018 or earlier.

Remember to provide a goodreads link to the title and author, a statement of why you want to nominate this book, and a note on the availability of it (in which formats? does your library have a long waiting list?). Remember, too, that if your nomination wins, you will be asked to lead off the beginning of the discussion.

Authors, sorry, no self-nominations this month.

I welcome questions of clarification here or in a PM.

Nominations will be open until March 20, to leave time for a poll and then for us to acquire the book.

Nobody has any book that they want to read and talk about?

This isn’t my usual type of book but it is time travel, The Last Magician.

The Big Time, a novella by the older author Fritz Leiber. I think it qualifies as 'intense' because it's a bit experimental, and more Literary than popular.

The Shamans at the End of Time
Florian Armas

The blurb of the novel matches the requirements. The first chapter is quite dramatic, dark and a little lyric; the descriptions are vivid.

Cheryl wrote: "The Big Time, a novella by the older author Fritz Leiber. I think it qualifies as 'intense' because it's a bit experimental, and more Literary than popular."

Yikes ... this one is rated only 3.21 stars on GoodReads

Yes, that tends to happen to experimental genre fiction... it's not what the readers were looking for. I bet we could come up with appreciation for what Leiber was trying to do, though.

However, I'm not campaigning for it, either.

All three titles are in a poll that will close on April 7: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Blanche's recommendation, The Shamans at the End of Time, won the poll!