Tag: H.G. Wells

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

The Time Traveler’s Wife–A Review

I recently listened to the audio version of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. The book was on my radar for a long time: some of my own readers saw parallels between Niffenegger’s handling of a relationship interrupted by time travel and my own Take Back Tomorrow, so I kept hearing about the book, but…
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November 2, 2014 1

Give Me a Minute: Time Travel Paradoxes

Continuing with the time travel theme here for a bit longer and thinking specifically of the sub-theme of the time travel paradox. There are several variations on this, and it’s an aspect of time travel fiction that makes people love it or hate it, or maybe both. The basic idea is that the time traveler…
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September 10, 2013 5

Time Travel / Alternate History Month with The Cellophane Queen

It’s Time Travel month on The Cellophane Queen’s blog. All through the month of September, Marva Dasef is devoting her blog to posts about time travel and alternate history with guest posts from authors who’ve written on the theme in a variety of ways. Here are the people who’ll be guesting on the subject: Pat…
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September 3, 2013 2

Time Travel–Fantasy or Science Fiction?

Back when I had a literary agent sending my work out to major publishers, we ran into a little problem–editors at the major publishing houses didn’t know how to categorize my books, especially Take Back Tomorrow. It’s science fiction, a time travel novel set in 1940 Los Angeles. But it’s also a mystery, as the protagonist…
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October 31, 2012 3