Deciding how to hunt down and pursue different genre topics for you, the reader, has presented me with fantastic opportunity as well as a quandary. Where does a reader who knows nothing about a genre go to start? How does one even know if a genre might interest them? Each month, I think - hmmm what can I share with the FAR readers who come and check out this rant? Are there authors deserving who I have not yet mentioned? Definitely. Are there genres worth mentioning I have never even considered reading because I, just like you, have my areas of focus? Definitely.

This month I thought that I'd take you on a little journey. One I have found myself turning to recently. Time Travel.

               My fascination with time travel began years and years ago, probably with a Star Trek episode where they spoke of speed of light or wormholes. I honestly cannot remember. However, it seems as though for years Time Travel and the likes were relegated to hard-core science fiction fans alone.

Television probably introduced most of us to the concept. Think of Quantum Leap, The Outer Limits, or any of the StarGates. How about even before that? Doctor Who. The Doctor took those loyal to him (Rose and crew) and his red telephone booth along for the ride. We believed.

The cinema snagged additional fans who perhaps had not become ensnared with the television Time Travel sagas. Hollywood brought us such visions as versions of Merlin: The Return, StarGate (the movie), Time Cop, the Terminator I, II and III, and the Back to the Future series, or what about The Time Machine, Planet of the Apes, and Timeline - which segways nicely into how this has crossed the tight genre barrier.

               Time Travel is no longer for hard-core tech fans. It apparently became more mainstream with novels such as Michael Crichton's Timeline and Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson, which was both a movie with Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeves and a book.

The romance genre's contribution to Time Travel, I believe, has been overlooked. You have Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, Kathleen Kirkwood's A Slip in Time or any of Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series.

There has been substantial contribution to this expanding genre. I just want to offer you all a few of the award winning, best-selling and emerging names on the list. Give them a try, see if you like what there is to offer.

Janet Wellington's novel Dreamquest has been noted as "a book that will not let you go, even when you are through reading it". If you are looking for a Time Travel with a Native American hero, this could be the book for you.

Mark Kendrick's Stealing Some Time series was the 2004 Imagination Award winner.

Connie Flynn's bestselling novels have been praised as "thought-provoking, mystical, and hauntingly moving."

               In her novel Beyond This Time Charlotte A. Banchi has dared touch on topics uncomfortable with readers, segregation and racism in how things were handled in the past add an extra element of intrigue to this thriller.

Other authors to try:

Kathryn Reiss
Susanne Marie Knight
Linda Kay
Debra Dier
Nina Bangs
Suzanne Elizabeth
Sherry Lewis
Madeline Baker
Johanna Lindsey
Donna Valentino
Rebecca Hagan Lee
Thomasina Ring
Sandra Hill

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