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In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator…

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2 authors picked Millennium as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The 55th-century-and-counting end-of-times narrative of Millennium is a time-travel story, yes, but it is more than that.

It manages to dodge the gleeful “paradoxes” at the heart of classical travellers-in-time stories while acknowledging the difficulties of interfering in the established timeline.

Bill Smith, the world-weary 20th-century airplane accident investigator, and his connection with Louise Baltimore, a fixer from dozens of millennia in the future, is one of the oddest relationships in fiction, and Varley’s account of the terminal ennui at the twilight of humanity is distressingly plausible.

If humans can only survive by going deep into history to divert “victims”…

Another time travel story that doesn’t stay within the “safe” realm.

The author dares to get into some interesting questions. If you like your sci-fi mixed with an element of mystery, this book is a great example of that. Anyone who liked The X-Files or Lost would love this book. 

From James' list on thought-provoking time travel.

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