I HIGHLY recommend Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels...the first one is the Eyre Affair. They're not exactly Time Travel books, but time travel is an element, and the books are really, really good. If you haven't read them, I think they are the sort of thing you'd like.
Slightly spoilerific to describe them this way, but: Grant Morrison's Invisibles and Seven Soldiers are both good closed system Time Travel stories. This doesn't become obvious until the second volume of the Invisibles, but once you hit "The Girl Most Likely to..." (which stands as one of my all time favourite time travel stories) and "Sensistive Criminals" the time travel is on like donkey kong.
Hell might as well make it a Morrison-fest and throw in the greatest comics Time Travel Story of All Time: DC 1,000,000. Following on the heels of the JLA arc "Rock of Ages" (which is an open-system story, oddly enough) DC 1 mill the be all and end all of supers time travel stories. The JLA of the 857th century comes back to the present to invite their ancestors to a celebration of Superman's return from the heart of the sun. They send the JLA of the present forward and stay in the past to protect the Earth in the subjective minute that the JLA is supposed to be gone. Needless to say Hijinx Ensue and nothing goes as it should. Very
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And i love a solidly executed time travel tale as well. The Doctor Who is fun and sometimes brilliant, but the overall scope is ripe with contradictions, etc. thats what you get for 43 years of storytelling/writers/actors, etc.
John Varley's book "Millennium" is AMAZING!! It is my favorite time travel book/story every. DO NOT watch the movie though, totall destruction of an amazing book.
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Hell might as well make it a Morrison-fest and throw in the greatest comics Time Travel Story of All Time: DC 1,000,000. Following on the heels of the JLA arc "Rock of Ages" (which is an open-system story, oddly enough) DC 1 mill the be all and end all of supers time travel stories. The JLA of the 857th century comes back to the present to invite their ancestors to a celebration of Superman's return from the heart of the sun. They send the JLA of the present forward and stay in the past to protect the Earth in the subjective minute that the JLA is supposed to be gone. Needless to say Hijinx Ensue and nothing goes as it should. Very ( ... )
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And i love a solidly executed time travel tale as well.
The Doctor Who is fun and sometimes brilliant, but the overall scope is ripe with contradictions, etc. thats what you get for 43 years of storytelling/writers/actors, etc.
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