Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

The Best Time Travel Books... of all time


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There's scientifically plausible time travel, fantasy / sci fi time travel, 'traditional' time travel centered around real history, people trapped in time loops, time travel romance, and we even threw in a couple of great time travel kids books - something here for every reader to love!

As we were editing the episode we realized we forgot an incredible, recent time travel book from the list that we'd meant to include - it's one we've mentioned in a previous episode. Drop us a line on discord if you think you know what we forgot (or if you've got a time travel book you love that you think should have been on the list)!

  • Join the Hugonauts book club on discord to tell us about your favorite time travel books
  • Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer video

This episode is sponsored by Maya: Seed Takes Root, which you can get here on kickstarter

If you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for all the books we talked about: 

  • 00:00 Intro 
  • 1:03 Sponsor - MAYA: Seed Takes Root 
  • 1:34 Fantastical / far future time travel 
  • 2:04 Night Watch by Terry Pratchett 
  • 3:15 The Dark Tower series by Stephen King 
  • 4:36 Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons 
  • 6:10 Scientifically plausible time travel 
  • 6:50 Tau Zero by Poul Anderson 
  • 9:20 Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang 
  • 10:38 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman 
  • 12:15 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 
  • 13:47 Looping time travel stories 
  • 14:14 The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 
  • 14:44 All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka 
  • 17:31 Great Time Travel Kids Books 
  • 20:25 Kindred by Octavia Butler 
  • 22:09 Lightning by Dean Koontz 
  • 23:48 11/22/63 by Stephen King 
  • 25:50 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North 
  • 29:18 The Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland 
  • 31:40 Time and Again by Jack Finney 
  • 35:00 The Life of Chuck by Stephen King 
  • 36:30 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut 
  • 40:43 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 
  • 44:05 Our top 3 favorite time travel books
...more
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