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Dear Reading Doctor, Last week at school, we had to imagine what the world might be like in 100 years. Loads of people drew pictures of robots and floating cities and other stuff like that. It was really cool. I drew a picture of a time machine because I love

Doctor Who. Are there any books about people who have time machines and travel into the future?

Rowan, age ten

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Dear Rowan, Time travel sounds terrific. Authors have written about time travel for years and years, imagining all sorts of things that they would encounter in the future – magic and monsters and crazy

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