"Time travel novels have the amazing ability to, well, straddle time. What I mean is, because they feature characters who travel between at least two different time periods, they inherently bring those time periods together. This can be really thought provoking as well as entertaining.
This unique ability of time travel novels means that these books either harken back to the past or project into the future (or, sometimes, both). If you're interested in spending a little more time thinking about this, give the essay "Time Traveling Books: Historical Fiction or Speculative Fiction?" a read."
