Time travel + Going into books
Oct. 6th, 2008 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityofoneTwo 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*
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*
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Date: 2008-10-07 02:06 pm (UTC)Not quite what you're after, but good: Emma Tupper's Diary by Peter Dickinson.
Les Visiteurs (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108500/), 1993.
The Planet of the Apes series comes close to fitting your criteria.
I know there are others, but I can't for the life of me think of them.
As for the meta-texts. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll is in the ballpark, as is Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. Austen's own Northanger Abbey also comes close. Neverending Story by Michael Ende is fantastic and is right on the money, except that the story within the story is... the story. And quite a few of Diana Wynne Jones's also come close (eg. Fire and Hemlock, Homeward Bounders).
Again, I know there are more, but I can't think of them right now. Hopefully this will get you started anyway.