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#Year1st ReadTitleAuthor(s)My Rating 
1 2011 2018 11/22/63
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Stephen King  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back?

In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

It begins with Jake Epping, a 35-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away: a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life - like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963 - turning on a dime.

Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession - to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world - of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading, eventually of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful - and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.
2 1955 1983 The End of Eternity
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Isaac Asimov  Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4
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Temptation
in Time


He was an Eternal, a relentlessly disiplined member of an elite class charged with monitoring the past and present... but when he fell in love with a non-Eternal woman, he dared to use his frightening techniques to twist time to suit their purposes...

"...suspense on every page..." New York Times

Isaac Asimov, one of today's outstanding science fiction writers, is also a biochemist and teacher at the Boston University School of Medicine.  The End of Eternity was published in its higher-priced edition by Doubleday and Co.

Published by the New American Library
3 1975 The Mote in Time's Eye
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Gerard Klein  
J C Richards (Translator)  
Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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STAR-KING
IN CHECK


Shangrin was the caption of the most advanced starliner pf the thousand thousand centuries from now.  His vessel was between the Magellanic galaxies when it became a casualty of war between the ultimate powers of the Last Days.  But far from being destroyed, Shangrin's vessel becaome the digit that threw off everyone's calculations.  And Shangrin himself, determined to return home to his own time and sphere, refusing to be a pawn for sacrifice, took his own hand in the cosmic game.

THE MOTE IN TIME'S EYE is an epic of time and space worthy of the wide-angled imagination of the famed author of THE OVERLORDS OF WAR and STARMASTERS' GAMBIT.

NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK
4 1979 Roadmarks
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Roger Zelazny  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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THE LAST EXIT
TO BABYLON


The Road runs from the unimaginable past to the far future, and those who travel it have access to the turnoffs leading to all times and places - even to the alternate timestreams of histories that never happened.

Why the Dragons of Bel'kwinith made the Road - or who they are - no one knows.  But the Road has always been there, for those who know how to find it, and always will be!
DIZZYING IN ITS VIRTUOSITY,
GRIPPING IN ITS
KALEIDOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF
TIME, CHARACTER, AND ACTION,
ROADMARKS
IS A DAZZLING ACHIEVEMENT
FOR ONE OF TODAY'S
MOST HIGHLY REGARDED WRITERS
OF IMAGINATIVE FICTION.

"A MINDBENDER OF A BOOK,
AND A TREAT FOR ZELAZNY FANS."
- ALA Booklist

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION!






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