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

[bmouse.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read "The Time Traveler's Wife"? It was absurdly popular a few months back. My friend lent me the novel but I didn't get around to reading it yet. It seemed rather well done but since the focus is a married couple one of whom is temporally-challenged there might be some age squicks. If you don't mind films there was a great high-quality indie film called 'Primer' about some young engineers who accidentally break physics in their garage one day and then decide to build a time machine. It's the most eerily realistic, "I could absolutely picture this" portrayal of time-travel I've ever seen, but then again half of my university could have been cast in it >_>.