Children of the Morning by Shanna Lauffey

They are doomed (perhaps) because they are going to crash. Dick The time-travellers are caught in some kind of pause in their temporal travels where they get out and talk to people in the normal world. My favourite time-travel story annoys me because I can't remember its name. In keeping with the time-travel theme, there wasn't a guest of honour instead, author Ian Watson dressed in Victorian clothes and did as speech as HG Wells: the Ghost of Honour. Incidentally, I heard about it Replay at a time-travel themed SF convention where a panel discussed greatest time-travel reads. There's an article about it on Wikipedia, which mentions (briefly) the sequel, the ongoing attempts to bring out a film version, and how it inspired Groundhog Day. It's included in a Piper omnibus called Paratime which gives the book some helpful context. I was enthralled, transported, completely swooningly in love with the story! Doesn't hold up as well as The Warlord of the Air to re-reading, but it's a very worthy book.

My dad read the book to me as our go-to-sleep book in 1966. The site is among my very favorite places to visit, especially as its 'What's New' section keeps me abreast of lots of the new publications in alternate history.īut hands-down my favorite alternate history/time travel book is Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Its beautifully imagined world of a Yiddish New York in the year 2000 left me wanting more stories set there.Īs an aside, the Sidewise Award-winning works are listed at and the list is worth a perusal. I passionately love the Sidewise Award-winning novel The Severed Wing by Martin Gidron. He spends the rest of the book trying to make time behave itself, ie give him what he wants. Of course, I loved the premise.a time traveler sent back to the 1930s to.er.preemptively redress a political wrong, let's say, and who falls in love with a doomed woman while there. Recently read Peter Delacorte's book Time on My Hands and was smitten. On re-reading it in 2004, thirty-plus years on, I loved it just as much.

It was my first alternate-history/time-travel book that I found, bought and read for myself, and I loved it fiercely. I first read Michael Moorcock's book The Warlord of the Air back in the early 1970s.

Children of the Morning by Shanna Lauffey