Audrey Niffenegger’s Time Traveler’s Wife will be released as a movie starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana on August 14th. This combines two excellent genres – novels featuring librarians and time travel. (There can never be enough stories about “hip, handsome” librarians). Henry works for the Newberry library in Chicago and involuntarily pops up in his own past and future.
Add to this, time travel as an “impossible romantic trap” and you have box office magic. Consider the romantic traps inherent in movies such as Somewhere in Time, The Lake House and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. When your lover is aging at a different rate or is in a different time zone, so to speak, it makes for a relationship complication.
So, here’s your chance to expand your travel choices – really expand them. Outside our time/space continuum.
And don’t forget the Outlander series by Diana Galbaldon which tells the story of Jamie Fraser, a Scottish Highlander from the 18th century, and his modern day time-traveling wife, Claire.