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• paws4thot commented on Time tourism
  Further on Octavia Butler - Growing older (look, growing "up" is not compulsory) near Glasgow in the 1970s and 80s, I honestly don't remember her books in the local SF shops. Of course, that may be at least partly down to that being when I was reading through all the "classic authors" and my Fantasy period....
• tangurena commented on Time tourism
  Accuracy in historical fiction is hard. Lindsey Davis tries very hard with her Falco series (he's a private investigator in Rome). Not SF at all. LD: I take pains with historical detail because otherwise, what's the point? But people get very pompous about all this. The Falco books were always intended to be light-hearted, almost spoofs. It's a joke to take a Forties-style gumshoe and put him two thousand years ago. And if I were to be really accurate linguistically I'd be writing in Latin – not even classical Latin but some street argot that we don't actually know. He...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkiLXV2mDF_7okO8QkO9GOiH6RY-2VmIWY commented on Time tourism
  What about E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet? That's a mixed group of Edwardian boys and girls who go time-traveling by means of a magic ankh. They go back to ancient Egypt and forward to a somewhat dystopian utopia. CS Lewis's The Magician's Nephew has the same deal but with world hopping via magic rings, going to a mostly dead world then a world at its birth. Then Mary Norton's The Magic Bedknob and Bonfires and Broomsticks--which Disney put together for Bedknobs and Broomsticks--has in the second book time travel back to the Great Fire of London. And while...
• Bellinghman commented on Time tourism
  Or to quote Charlie in the following article to this: It's also noteworthy that the "men time-travel; women stay at home" paradigm doesn't apply in childrens' literature, if the time traveler is a child. - perhaps that may be widened to say if any of the time travellers are children....
• austern commented on Time tourism
  The funny thing: I can think of lots of instances of time travel stories, some of which may be counterexamples to the original post (one of my favorite time travel stories that has a female time traveler and that's very specifically about mid-20th century gender roles, for example, is Ellen Klages's "Time Gypsy"), but I'm not actually sure I can think of any examples of time tourism. The title of this post feels perfectly reasonable, and it feels like it ought to be a really common trope, I'm just having trouble thinking of concrete examples. Well, not in grownup fiction,...