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1. Here's a meld of science-fiction and fantasy: a 19th-century engineer going back to the chivalrous age of King Arthur! In Mark Twain's telling, just what kind of Yankee went back in time after a blow to the head?
2. What if you were unwillingly transported to another time and place -- again and again and again? In "The Time Traveler's Wife", Henry couldn't control the hours- or days-long trips he took, often to significant moments in his life or his love's. Who wrote this 2003 novel?
3. Scholar Martin Padway turned a corner in Rome and wound up 1400 years in the past, in the time of the Ostrogoths. His knowledge of Latin and his clever application of modern technology bought him time to formulate a new life's work: keeping the Dark Ages from descending on western Europe. What's the name of this novel by L. Sprague de Camp?
4. People first noticed it in the sky: seeming hours of eerie, shimmering lights that faded to reveal stars slightly out of place. Scouting expeditions confirmed a shocking fact: their whole island had somehow been transported to the 1200s BC, and these modern people had to make their way in an ancient world. In the series by S.M. Stirling, what is this "Island in the Sea of Time"?
5. Usually, tales of accidental time travel have the traveler educating the poor, benighted people of the past somehow. At the very least, the traveler can feel superior to them! But "Ladies Whose Bright Eyes" inverted that formula, with a protagonist who failed to modernize medieval times. What novelist, famous for "The Good Soldier", wrote this book?
6. In "Pebble in the Sky", an ordinary Chicagoan was suddenly transported - to the future! Poor Joseph Schwartz couldn't communicate with anyone at first, but he soon learned the truth. Earth was a backwater planet, plagued by radioactivity and despised by other planets in the Trantorian Empire, but some fanatic Earthlings had a plan - and Schwartz was the only one who could prevent a terrible crime. Who wrote this 1950 novel?
7. At the beginning of Jane Yolen's young-adult novel "The Devil's Arithmetic" (1982), Hannah, a teenager living in a suburb of New York, didn't understand or appreciate her older relatives. Then a sudden dislocation in time and space brought history far too close for comfort. To what historical event was Hannah transported?
8. When the town of Grantville, West Virginia (circa 2000) was suddenly transported to Germany, several things happened. First, the arrival of the town, its technology, and its strange political and cultural ideas destabilized an already chaotic Thirty Years' War. Second, their story developed and unfolded collaboratively: the original author joined up with co-authors, and fans submitted short stories and articles for the "Grantville Gazettes." What was the name of the original book by Eric Flint?
9. Dana was a modern woman of the 1970s, so she was never going to like being dragged back to an earlier age when "women's rights" were a bad joke. But her situation was even worse than that: she was repeatedly yanked back to the early 1800s to help an ancestor in the American South, and Dana was black. What 1979 novel by Octavia Butler explored the horrors of slavery?
10. When Billy Pilgrim traveled in time, he didn't jump far: instead, he re-lived experiences from his own life, both in the past and in the future. Sound confusing? The alien Tralfamadorians could explain it all, at least to Billy's satisfaction. Alternatively, you could read which classic novel by Kurt Vonnegut?
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