Who remembers the WABAC Machine? This was from Peabody’s Improbable History, a show-within-a show 
during the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons of the 1960s (disclaimer: I watched the re-runs!). Peabody would set the WABAC machine to a date in the past, and give unsuspecting viewers a history lesson! For a blast from the past, read the Wikipedia article on the subject.
A few weeks ago I bought the July/August 2008 issue of Bookmarks magazine, which had an extensive article on Time Travel in a cover-grabbing article called “Great Science Fiction”. Science fiction, moi? Apparently, oui, as several books on my bookcase involve the subject of time-travel.
In the past few months I’ve reviewed Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, a fun novel about a 
present-day Los Angelean who wakes up in Regency-period England, and Miss Alcott’s E-Mail (here), a clever biography of Louisa May Alcott.
Other time-travel books on Bookmarks’ list include:
- Time and Again by Jack Finney (I’ve read this one, too!)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- “A Sound of Thunder” a short story by Ray Bradbury
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
What other time travel books have you read? Are there other suggestions for a non-science-fiction reader like me? I enjoyed the three that I’ve read because they focus on the result of the time-travel, not the technical process of getting there …
