As Beukes explained to us, she explores a fatalistic universe with “loops and paradoxes,” in which you cannot escape your destiny. We loved this book about a serial killer who travels through time, targeting “shining girls” who have the potential to make the world a better place. Rather, it’s an instruction manual.” 5) The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes As Meltzer says, “this book isn’t a thriller. The main character dies at age 43 and then lives his adult life over again, and this keeps happening - which means he gets several chances at getting it right, except that it’s not that simple. This isn’t exactly a time-travel book, it’s a time-looping book (one of two on this list). You should just go read Brad Meltzer’s essay about what Replay meant to him and why he was so eager to option the movie rights at one point. But she also has to ensure her own existence, which involves her cruel, callous slave-owner ancestor Rufus. Dana has to learn to survive the institution of slavery and become part of the plantation’s community. We’ve had 12 Years a Slave, so maybe we’re finally ready for a movie of Kindred, in which a present-day woman keeps traveling back in time to visit her ancestors - who include both slaves and slave owners.

A group of pilgrims travels to Hyperion in an age-old ritual, and on the way they each tell stories - it sets up an epic story that continues in the second book, and at one point the plan was to combine the first two books into one movie. Including the Time Tombs, which are mysterious artifacts that travel backwards in time, and a monster called the Shrike that is associated with them. And it’s too bad, because this weird spin on The Canterbury Tales has so many fantastic ideas. This book has been optioned for film several times, but never actually filmed. But maybe Eternity’s idea of the “most benign” timeline isn’t actually the best for humanity after all? 2) Hyperion by Dan Simmons Asimov envisions Eternity, a group of super-powerful time-travelers from the distant future, who travel “upwhen” and “downwhen,” across the centuries, changing history to create the most benign possible timeline. There are so many great ideas in this 1955 novel, it’s hard to believe nobody’s made it into a movie - although apparently there were film versions in the Soviet Union and Hungary. So here are 10 time-travel books that would make bloody amazing movies. But as Predestination recently proved, the smartest movies about time warps are often based on literary sources. This Friday sees Hot Tub Time Machine 2, and Terminator 5 is coming soon. Time travel is huge at the movies right now.

The anubis gates movie