Time travel + Going into books

[trinityofone]

Two book questions for you today inspired by my desire to avoid the stuff I need to be doing:

1. I love time travel books and am always interested in recommendations in general, but right now I am specifically looking for books where characters from the past come forward to the (relative) present. Can anybody think of any?

2. I got way too much guilty pleasure out of the recent BBC miniseries Lost in Austen. It made me want to try other books (or other media?) that involve characters going into books or book characters coming out of them. I can only think of three others:

a. The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde (meh)
b. Seducing Mr. Darcy by Gwyn Cready (appallingly awful)
c. Travel Far, Pay No Fare by Anne Lindbergh (absolutely delightful and sadly under-recognized YA book that I heartily recommend to everybody)

I know there must be others. Can you help me find them?

*goes back to not filling out unemployment paperwork, la la la*

Comments

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

1. Stig of the Dump by Clive King is the only forward-in-time one I can think of, though it maybe isn't quite that clear cut.

There's also a Tom Holt called Grailblazers though I think that just has the Knights of the Round Table survive until now. I'm sure I read another Arthurian one that was a bit more serious as well, but I can't remember much about it other than the newly awoken knights switching to motorbikes instead of horses, and possibly a descendant of Arthur? Argh, that's going to bug me now.

(And for a back-in-time one I'd rec another children's book: A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley.)