Time Traveller's Wife

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• dochtman · Jul 15, 2018 · Recommends

  …category: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell is one of my all-time favorites, and mixes deep SF with psychology and religion in interesting ways. There's a sequel, but it's not as good. I also liked The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, which is also on the softer side. I read Scalzi's Redshirts and liked it (especially if you're familiar with the Star Trek universe), it feels similar to Ready Player One in some…

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• epihelix · Sep 7, 2026 · Recommends

  …you shouldn't read any further, because it's absolutely, certainly, not for you. Or, Jeebus, Harry-Freaking-Potter. There is a reason that an entire generation grew up reading those books. Or: "The Time Traveller's Wife", "The Poisonwood Bible", "The Road", "Interview with the Vampire", "A Room with a View", "Replay", "Of Mice and Men", "Brave New World". The list of books that are gripping from the start, should they…

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• jl6 · Dec 17, 2010 · Mentions

  SF is a writing style, not a set of technologies. Hence why Neal Stephenon's Baroque Cycle is SF despite including no SFnal technologies (except maybe an allusion to just one), and why The Time Traveller's Wife is mainstream, despite being about time travel, the most outlandishly SFnal concept there ever was.

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• icebraining · Dec 16, 2017 · Mentions

  Why do you consider literary fiction "navel-gazing" and why is SF that important? As a side note, one of the books they give as an example is The Time Traveller's Wife, which involves "a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably", which certainly sounds like an SF-y premise.

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• raganwald · Apr 2, 2010 · Mentions

  This had a bit of a K-Pax feeling, even though K-Pax is not about time travel. And there's The Time Traveller's Wife if you want a less nerdy time travel story...

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• rationalbeaver · Dec 17, 2010 · Mentions

  …nazi in me must say that SF is a genre, not a writing style. The Baroque cycle crosses the historical fiction and SF genres into a lovely mutant child that could be called Historical Science Fiction. The Time Traveller's Wife also crosses genres, with a heavier focus on the Romance than the SF.

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