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A collection of short stories filled with black humor, literal aliens, and good old fashioned weirdness.

Bisson mirrors Willis' style in his attention to his characters and their reactions when the unexpected occurs in their lives.

Billy Pilgrim is traveling back and forth through time. In the past, he witnesses the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany. In the future, he is part of an alien zoo. Those who like the combination of serious and absurb in Willis's books will also enjoy this classic.

First in Fforde's Thursday Next series.

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is disappointed by the ending of Jane Eyre. But in this world there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic - and a woman called Thursday Next.

Taylor also offers fast-paced, action-packed intricately plotted capers with plenty of humor chronicling the time-traveling historians. Begin with Just One Damned Thing after Another.

"History is just one damned thing after another.” –Arnold Toynbee

The “Chronicles of St. Mary’s” tells the chaotic adventures of Max and her compatriots—Director Bairstow, Chief Leon Farrell, Mr. Markham, and many more—as they travel through time, saving St. Mary’s (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea.

Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it "time travel”—these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” The first thing you learn on the job at St. Mary’ is that one wrong move and history will fight back—sometimes in particularly nasty ways. But, as new recruit Madeleine Maxwell soon discovers, it’s not only history they’re often fighting.

From eleventh-century London to World War I, from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, one thing is for sure: wherever the historians at St. Mary’s go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake.

Sierra, a student of the Classics, has just been shown a recently discovered dialog of Socrates. In it, a time traveler argues with Socrates that he might escape death by traveling to the future. Later, Sierra finds a time machine ina gentleman's club and meets a time traveler from her future, who is posing at Heron of Alexander. But can any of them actualy save Socrates?

Simon Morely has been selected to participate in a time travel experiment. By changing his surroundings to what he would find, see, and hear to a certain year, the goverment believes that a person can slip through time to that actual year. Does it actualy work, or is Morley just being hypnotized? And what if he can change things?

An archaeology professor is lost in medieval France and his students must find a way to bring him back. Fans of Willis's The Doomsday Book should enjoy this time travel adventure from Crichton.

A bag of bones with a note has been left at a federal building. But the skeleton inside has been put together using many different bodies. Is a serial killer calling out Tempe and Booth?

Closest in style to To Say Nothing of the Dog. Marty McFly finds himself in humorous situations as he tries to 'fix' his change to time.

Based on the novel by Madeleine L'Engle.

Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.

Based on the novel by Carl Sagan.

Controversy erupts around astronomer Ellie Arroway when radio telescopes on Earth receive a signal indicating the existence of life twenty-six light years away, and plans are transmitted for building a craft for traveling to Vega to meet with the messengers.